Pains of Motherhood

1. Stretchmarks and C-section scar…
2. Heartburn like you wouldn’t believe. Almost would rather not eat than have to deal with it.
3. Gaining weight/bloating: even if you do manage to lose ‘baby weight’, your body will never look like it did BB. “Before Baby”
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BF Nazis

And I mean that in the nicest way possible.
There are some really militant ‘breastfeed only’ advocates out there. They LOOK like normal people. But as soon as you even mention ‘formula’, they get all weird and glaze over.
I KNOW breastfeeding is best. But when you have a 10+ baby who is HUNGRY, and your milk [...]

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Bed Rest…& the rantings of a mad woman!

It happened. I’ve been put on bed rest for the rest of my pregnancy.
I know once school started, my entries started getting farther and farther apart.
Now that I am on bed rest until Noodles arrives, I will probably update a lot more. THEN stop. For a while.
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I am on a different tangent altogether now.

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Week 29…

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Originally uploaded by dragonfly_727
I have about 2 and a half more months left.
I don’t know if I mentioned this before…but one doctor said I am one week ahead of what the first doctor said I would be due. So I might actually be 30 weeks today. But to keep it uniform, I’ll title my belly [...]

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You know what I miss?

I am learning there are several things I have taken for granted during this pregnancy.
For example, I miss the following things:
1. Chicken: we used to love chicken in any form. But now, the texture of it…the taste…I don’t really like. I can still eat it, but the sauce has to mask the flavor of the [...]

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Serious thoughts on a lazy Summer Day

Being a teacher, I’m off for the summer. I don’t have to do anything. But I did promise myself to get up with my honey, change clothes, do my morning ablution, etc. I think I stayed in my sleepwear until noon two days. Not bad. Right?
As this is my very last summer of [...]

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Our Babymoon to Las Vegas

So I’m finally sitting down to write about our last trip before Noodles arrives. I’ve never been to Las Vegas. It’s been on my list of places to visit. B’s been there several years ago back…pretty much before all of the ‘mega’ hotels started to sprout.
Since this was our last ‘hurrah’, we wanted [...]

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10 things I’ve learned as a first time pregnant woman

1. GAS…

Who knew that there was so much farts & burps were trapped in a woman’s body?! Little boys everywhere look at me with newfound respect and awe. I’m tired of running out of the room pretending that I forgot something.
They say when you are pregnant, there’s nothing about the woman’s body that will remain [...]

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To the Future Apple of my Eye:

No, I am not pregnant. But IF I WERE TO HAVE A CHILD/REN, and he/they gave me attitude, this is a possible letter I might write:
 
We are SO glad you are a part of our family. It wouldn’t be complete without you!
Do you know how much we longed for you? How much we wanted to [...]

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Jennifer, the human pin cushion

There are millions of pregnant teens out there. A friend of ours seem to get pregnant every time her husband shows her his penis.
Getting pregnant shouldn’t be so hard, right?
We’ve tried Clomid…but that didn’t work. So now we’re doing injections (Repronex) every day for ten days. I am SO sick of being pricked. I almost [...]

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