Today was my second weekly visit to the OBGYN here in the homestretch. I’m due two weeks from Sunday, and today I got some exciting news. I am 50% effaced and the baby is at what they call the zero station–any lower and I’d be in active labor. So Baby Whozit is ready to go […]
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Every book about pregnancy that I’ve read has described the period of “nesting” that typically comes at the end of pregnancy. They say you know you are on the home stretch when you suddenly feel an urge to redesign your garden, repaint your nursery, organize 10 years of loose photos, or scrub your entire house […]
So tonight was our last Lamaze class, the highlight of which was receiving a pamphlet called “To the Grandmother of the Breastfed Baby”. A title that better reflects its content would be something like “We know you bottle-fed you kids and they all turned out just fine, but please shut up and try to be […]