It’s been an emotional couple of days over here in pregnancy land. Six weeks ago, at my 22-week ultrasound, I was diagnosed with placenta previa. Most placentas attach high up on the uterus, but mine (and about 1 out of every 200 pregnant women) decided to attach low down. This causes problems when it comes …
Pregnancy is super fun—until it isn’t. The past couple of weeks have been the hardest of my pregnancy so far. I had just written to a friend that pregnancy had dealt kindly with me, which is so true, but then I started having some complications. At my 22 week ultrasound, I found out that I …
Baby L is as big as a pineapple! You guys, I feel increasingly incredulous every week when I look up how big baby is. At first, it seemed like it took for-ever for baby to grow, but now it seems that he/she is doubling in weight and size every few weeks! I can hardly keep up, …
One of the questions we get asked the most is: are you going to find out if baby is a boy or a girl? We have elected to keep baby’s gender a surprise, so I thought it would be fun to work through a bunch of the old wive’s tales out there that boldly promise to …
We are so excited to travel to… Our babymoon! Many of you made guesses as to where the sandy beach was that we would be headed to in a few weeks. Some of you guessed Florida, Oregan, Maine, and Hawaii! All would be excellent places to visit, but we will not be heading to any of …
This is Petal. She is our much beloved car, but she is also getting a bit long in the tooth. Her aches and pains are many–due to a leaky air conditioner, and assorted other wounds, we are facing a $2000 car repair. So this week, the question that has been whispered often in the Lotulelei …
Well, hello there, 24 week bump! This has been a busy week! Four very significant things have happened in the past seven days: The bump finally appeared One of the most frustrating parts of this pregnancy so far is having to deal with all the comments regarding the fact that it has taken me so …
I am loving pregnancy, these days. I have finally hit the golden age of my pregnancy. I have my energy back, my gross symptoms are at an all-time low, and my belly isn’t large enough to be an issue yet. If I could just hang on to this feeling for the rest of the pregnancy …
Junk, junk, and more junk. That is all I saw when I looked at our apartment. For the last few months, I have been feeling increasingly dissatisfied with our apartment. I don’t know if this increased desire to beautify my home is due to the nesting phase beginning (they say that happens during pregnancy), if it …
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The first ultrasound changes everything. We had our first ultrasound this week, and it was so much more incredible than I could have even imagined. I was nervous walking into it, because this was the first time that we would be getting a peek at baby on the inside. What if there was something wrong …
