I feel like I should preface everything I write about pregnancy/ birth/ life with a newborn with “my experience” so everyone understands I’m not suggesting this is How Life Is For Everyone, but rather am just trying to get my experience out there because I think there’s value to knowing everyone has different ones. Moving [...]

Because I am, well, me, I’ve been checking my horoscope for each day’s tomorrow to see if there’s a clue that I might have this kid. Here’s today’s (my due date):

“Not everything is as perfect as it initially seems today, so you need to let go of your expectations early on. If you don’t, [...]

Hi, I’m not in labor!

This is how I answer the phone, greet my mom, and say hello to my team every morning.

And now, apparently how I start blog posts.

I’m officially in the calm before the storm, the unbelieving stage of dealing with change. Also in the “spending more time in the tub [...]

Any day now I’m going to get around to taking pictures of the nursery and various crafty projects I’ve finished in the last week of waiting. Any. Day.

In the meantime, I thought we could do a contest about this kiddo o’ mine and when you all think he’ll make his appearance. So, you comment [...]

I had my 39-week exam yesterday. After much debate about whether to insist on an internal exam — because at my hippie practice, they don’t do them as a matter of course — I ended up with the new midwife who recently joined Hippie Center from a more medical practice and thus made the recommendation [...]

*I posted before that I didn’t want anyone at the Birth Center — waiting room or otherwise — except my husband and I. We talked and argued and talked some more, dropped it, came back to it, and then started the cycle all over again. We talked about it at HippieBirthing, over dinner, late at [...]

You know I try to tell it like it is, right? I do, because I find it heartening to discover that someone else out there feels similarly to how I’m feeling.  So even though I’d rather pretend that everything is fabulous and fine and normal and I’m excited and impatient and can’t wait to meet [...]

This Sunday I’ll be 39 weeks pregnant. Can you believe it? I can’t believe it. When you mark time in weeks, as during pregnancy, it somehow passes both more and less quickly. At 7 weeks you can’t imagine getting to 13; at 15 you can’t wait for 26; at 30, 40 seems so far away.

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First off, DIY cloth wipes:

Check out the super straight sides and perfectly square awesomeness. (Um, not). If you recall, I serged these inside out, flipped, and top-stitched. The serging is what killed the geometry. I’m rather new to serging (and very impatient) and didn’t take the time to make the [...]