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  An Update and Some Thoughts (catchy, huh?)

  01.24.10 | Permalink | 50 Comments

  Several weeks ago I went to my first prenatal visit. I told the doctor I was either seven or eleven weeks along, and we did an ultrasound to get a better idea of just how unreliable my memory is. It was early morning, I was drinking water like mad so I could give a sample [...]

• daughters, pregnancy

  Disconnect

  01.15.10 | Permalink | 22 Comments

  One of my best friends came to stay with us for a few days. She planned her trip before I was struck down in the afternoon and evenings by this first-trimester-stomach-unhappiness, and I have been hoping that I can be cheerful enough to not rain on her vacation. (I am great in the mornings, which [...]

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  Psychologically, I feel very . . . confused*

  12.28.09 | Permalink | 35 Comments

  In the past couple of weeks, Spot and Susan have each asked me if I had a baby in my tummy, and I reminded them that I do not anymore. When Spot asked me, we were sitting on the couch, and I saw again the pregnancy test I’d taken the night before, the test that [...]

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  One More Less

  08.22.09 | Permalink | 36 Comments

  The week I found out I was pregnant (this time, the fifth time I have found myself with child), it seemed the world was conspiring to tell me how bad an idea that was. On Radio West, I learned that having one less child than I want would be twenty times more effective at cutting [...]

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