Posts Tagged ‘pregnant’

banana

Well, it finally happened. I started my day by rejecting the banana I had just finished eating. I have had morning sickness for about two months now, but this was the first time I actually threw up. Does this mean it’s getting worse? But I’m in the second trimester! WTF.

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the thing

There’s a little creature inside me, six centimeters from head to tail. Its heart beats, it has a face, a brain, hands the size of lentils, complete with five fingers on each. We got a grainy black and gray glimpse of it today. It lay in its warm lair inside me, hand near its mouth, […]

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now it can be told

I have passed twelve weeks of gestation, so I permitted myself to set up a registry at Target Baby. I saw a great deal of pastel pink and blue, and pastel green and yellow for “neutral.” Almost nothing in the color red, the first color that human eyes can see, and nothing in black (of […]

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what’s up

+ I am eating banana cream pie from the Skillet. Bananas, puff pastry, pudding, whipped cream. The baby demanded it. I had no choice. + Brian is going to SF for work again soon. I’ll miss him as usual but now more than ever I am just jealous. I want to go to San Francisco! […]

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week eleven

Though it’s really week nine, but whatev. We went to my first OB appointment Friday and my doctor used a special amplifier on my abdomen to allow us to hear the fetal heartbeat. whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh! it said. Best part of the exam. Doc also said I need to basically graze all day, and […]

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wah

Being pregnant means it’s harder to sleep at night and to get comfortable in bed, and it also happens to be the only time when you’re not allowed to take any sleep aid drugs or depressants of any kind. BOO HOO NO FAIR! Last night I dreamed that we went to get an ultrasound and […]

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dreams I had this morning while sleeping in

+ I was visiting my dad and wanted to take a shower, but they had walled up all the tubs so they couldn’t be used. I kind of threw a shit fit (pregnant) + I was in a meeting at work but didn’t have to be there so I left and got into an elevator […]

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fetal… pole?

The head is on the left. It’s my little tadpole! This is much cooler in live video form. Ultrasound stills really don’t compare to watching it on the monitor in real time.

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I surround you

It seems like very few of the people on my friends list are blogging lately. Come on! Well, I guess that goes for me too, so I am trying to make an effort to change that. Of all the times in my life, now is the time I ought to be documenting what is going […]

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fatigue

This weekend I feel like I could easily have just slept the entire time. Yet I managed to get up each day and feed myself, which is imperative to quell the nausea. We took Kona for a nature walk on Saturday through some woods just outside of town. It was quite beautiful. When we got […]

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