To some, it might appear a bit wonky that I would come back to blogging, drop the news that we’re planning an embryo transfer, and then avoid saying another word about it until now. If anything, however, it’s indicative of our overall attitude this time around. Now that we’re heading into a transfer with a [...]

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Nola’s attempts at walking have been very frequent, very nearly upright and often bruising. Now that she’s craving a faster method of transport than hands-and-knees motoring, her crawling has gotten quite rapid, too. Which means that every now and then she can’t keep up with herself and kersplats, face first, right into the floor.
We wanted [...]

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Since we find ourselves living in a world where babies don’t come out on time, we also found ourselves back in the office of our midwives this morning. Fetal monitoring was the order of the day, two blue bands with blue nodes wrapped around Constance’s belly, and we sat in near silence for nearly an [...]

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When baby comes, if it happens to be a Calvin and not a Nola, we are opting to forgo circumcision. Our decision has nothing to do with aesthetics or the myth of cleanliness and everything to do with the fact that I can’t bring myself to cut off part of my child’s penis. Especially something [...]

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Forty weeks today and no baby on the way – at least not in the immediate moments (I’m at work drinking tea, eating a fiber muffin and going about business as usual). It’s an arbitrary number in some ways, I suppose, since so many people go early or late. But what is it about 40 [...]

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Yes, we are still pregnant. My reasons for neglecting this here blog are that I’m having trouble figuring out anything new and/or interesting to say as we march toward the great unknown. At our appointment this morning, everything checked out as normal as can be - the only promising sign being some blood in Constance’s [...]

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Today brought us the most uneventful midwife-appointment to date. At the apex of the midwife philosophy, and ours as well, is a hands-off approach. No vaginal exams, minimal monitoring – the body is allowed to do what it does naturally without a lot of intervention. Constance only had diarrhea and sudden onset lower back pain [...]

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I walked into the office this morning carrying a satchel full of bad attitude and our cable modem apparatus. We made the switch to DSL over the weekend and the remnants of the Comcast-era were stuffed into a puffy priority mail package, which was then stuffed into my bag, and is now ready to be [...]

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As it turns out, the delicate ecosystem we refer to as Constance’s junk has turned out to be a breeding ground for Group B strep. Once she enters active labor, she will have to have an IV bag of penicillin pumped into her veins followed by another round 4 hours later. It will not limit [...]

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Our pets are leading a revolt. My guess is that it has something to do with the impending delivery, but regardless, they have, over the last week, begun to stake their claim. Animals can sense and smell change, so a part of me wonders if the reason Marcy barked for two hours non-stop on Tuesday [...]

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