Baby prep classes are super overwhelming and emotional and weird and even weirder over Zoom. I thought we wouldn’t be able to top that time in our Prepped class where all of the pregnant people …
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THE MOST NORMAL AND REGULAR OF TIMES
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KATHY
KAREN HAS A COUSIN. Her name is Kathy, and she works as a pre-natal ultrasound technician at my hospital, and she is CHATTY AS THE DAYS ARE ENDLESS AND NO LONGER MARKED BY EVENTS. Take …
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SAUSAGE, PARTY OF FOUR?
One of my FAVORITE things to do is call large groups of men a Sausage Party. Writer’s rooms, social gatherings, a few dudes just sort of standing together, my brothers gathered in a room, nephews …
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watch Paint Dry
Just slowly moving our way down the list of pregnancy movie montage moments over here. Murrca’s been bad this year so its birthday party has been CANCELLED, DON’T SEND PRESENTS. Instead we are taking today …
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Pandemic Babymoon
We decided to take a risk and VERY CAREFULLY, DISTANCE-LY, MASKED AND DRIPPING WITH HAND SANITIZER, stay a few nights at a newly re-opened low-capacity beach hotel (and other things I will remind myself when …
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BUTT TRUTH
I just caught a glimpse of the actual size of my butt in a mirror, like an actual mirror, not a mirror in which I control my image of myself, and it cast great doubt …
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Boob, or Butt?
I’m not sure who needs to see this today, but maybe it’s you? THIS IS AN ACTUAL BABY SHOWER GAME. Feel free to play it all day, alone, or with family, with friends. I could …
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Prepped
We are proud graduates of Loom’s Prepped: The Series birthing class, and while I learned many things that will stay with me forever, and have seen things I cannot unsee — the thing that will …
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The Best of Days
HOW WAS YOUR BIRTHDAY, BEKAH? THE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW. If you would just CALM DOWN, I WILL TELL YOU. I had the best day that I’ve had in years. A beach walk, a backyard …
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A Face of a Man
We had our first Zoom birthing class, and I had to capture this Face of a Man watching a fake baby get shoved through a fake pelvis after watching a plastic cervix dilate and ‘efface’ …