posted by K | filed under Adoption | 1 Comment

I’m very happy to be pregnant. Very, very happy. But still, there are moments when I think about G and am very sad. The other day in the car, the song “Maybe (Reprise)” from the movie Annie came on my iPod, the version from near the end of the movie, when Rooster and Lily […]

posted by K | filed under IF, Family & Friends, Mr. and Mrs., 9 Months of Awesome | 2 Comments

Every week, the nausea reaches a new level. Now I have passed the hacking and spitting phase and moved straight on to true upchuckage, once or twice a day for the last three days. It’s really awesome.
I finally accepted the nurse practitioner’s offer for an anti-nausea prescription, though I haven’t noticed it making much […]

posted by K | filed under IF, 9 Months of Awesome | 7 Comments

We went for a third ultrasound yesterday, since the heartbeat wasn’t yet visible a few days ago. That day, the nurse practitioner told me not to worry, that it was still early yet. Still, I worried. And yesterday morning, I woke up more worried than ever. Even while I puked in the toilet before […]

posted by K | filed under Small Town Life, 9 Months of Awesome | 2 Comments

Across the street from our house is a rather sad little park. There was a park just like this at the far end of our grandparents’ 1960’s-era neighborhood, and Aunt Sue would lead all of us cousins on a trek there when we went to visit at Thanksgiving or Christmas. We’d knock about there […]

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Yesterday I went in for my anxiously awaited blood test, to check if my hcg levels doubled as they should. The nurse practitioner told me we wanted to see a level of at least 240.
I left the office and drove to see my friend’s new baby, an hour away. Halfway there, I got […]

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Things are looking good so far. Soon the baby will progress from the size of a grain of rice to an apple seed. (Though I don’t have the two for a comparison … is an apple seed really any bigger?)
I couldn’t resist peeing on another stick yesterday morning, and this time the second pink […]