Lots and lots happening around here, as evidenced by the silence on the blog as of late. I am transitioning out of the traditional workforce with the defunding and closing of my department this month. MonkeyBoy will start back to preschool in a few weeks, and several of his little friends will [...]
I’m finally feeling better, pregnancy-wise. You can tell I’m feeling better because I’m in the kitchen again. For the first 16 weeks or so of pregnancy, I couldn’t stand to be around food. We ate out a lot, because I could eat if someone would set the cooked food down in front [...]
The doorbell rang this evening with a delivery and I don’t know who was more excited – me or MonkeyBoy. Inside the giant box was my new pregnancy pillow, which I hope will give me more restful sleep than I’ve been getting lately. MonkeyBoy was over the moon with the boy-sized box.
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I’m nearing the end of the first trimester and am on day three of no nausea meds. I’m hoping that phase is now behind us. I went to my twelve week doctor’s appointment this week and we got more photos of the little one. It’s starting to look human and I’m feeling [...]
I’ve been doctoring for quite a few months and today’s visit confirmed the diagnosis: I’ve got a parasite growing in my uterus. We’ve been monitoring it with sonograms and it appears to be growing in a consistent manner. We’ll continue monitoring it for the time being and then remove it surgically in [...]