Posted on September 30th, 2008 by Matt
Our first major social event of the pregnancy era was the wedding of my lifelong friend. Mary Fons got married, and as it turned out our ill-timed mall trip last weekend in preparation for the big day was only the precursor to a much more frustrating and ill-timed bout of those same dastardly retail emotions.
Only [...]
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Posted on September 26th, 2008 by Matt
“Matty, I think I just did something really stupid,” Constance said in lieu of a proper greeting in response to my playful, “Hello, beautiful.”
“What’s wrong?” I asked as my heart began to thumb its way down into my stomach, thudding rapidly enough to cause instant nausea. I dropped my koi-fish covered messenger bag onto the [...]
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Posted on September 25th, 2008 by Matt
“Wanna hear the baby’s heartbeat?” Dr. Wos asked. “I didn’t think we’d get to do that today because I didn’t know you were 11 weeks already. But now is the perfect time. Just let me go grab the Doppler.”
As her white lab coat fluttered past my face, the breeze of her movement blowing me back [...]
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Posted on September 24th, 2008 by Matt
At noon we’re headed to Swedish Covenant Hospital to meet our OB/GYN for the very first time. Word on the street is that she’s amazing – she was nominated for “Doctor of the Year” in 2007 at the hospital, and every bit of info we could cull from a Google search was positive. Women who [...]
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Posted on September 22nd, 2008 by Matt
Being uncomfortable in your own clothes or your own skin – or some combination of the two – is the mental equivalent of a severe case of chicken pox. You want to claw your eyes out, tear your skin off, writhe on the floor as if in need of exorcism and cry, not from the [...]
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Posted on September 19th, 2008 by Matt
Nausea - it continues even after I caved and swallowed a few tablespoons of the pink stuff. Pepto Bismol did not solve my problems, as I suspected, yet it made Constance happy that I took her advice and, best of all, I lived to tell. But the queasiness consumes me still. So much so that [...]
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Posted on September 18th, 2008 by Matt
SURPRISE! Yes, it is me at long last – and after many kind inquiries as to my thoughts on matters. It is hopefully not surprising that I hardly know where to start – delirious joy, eagerness, and relief unfortunately followed by devastation, paranoia, and relief again. Now I find myself in [...]
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Posted on September 15th, 2008 by Matt
“It tastes onion-y” Constance said as she swallowed the initial dose of Roasted Root Vegetable soup. It was a recipe she handpicked from “The Soup Bible” for Sunday lunch and a recipe I spent the bulk of my morning preparing. On Saturday I had spent several hours mixing, rising, shaping, and baking globs of dough [...]
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Posted on September 12th, 2008 by Matt
Posted on September 11th, 2008 by Matt
My mind was irrevocably altered the day we lost Baby B. A mental amusement park had been erected the day we found out we were pregnant, a wonderland riddled with excitement, laughter, overpriced lemonades and inexplicably sticky rides – and never had I been more carefree and happy in my 29 years.
And then [...]
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