Do you have any questions for the doctor? YES, WHEN. When will my uterus return to its normal size? When should I start dinner? When can I workout again, when can I work again? When …
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Blankets
This here’s Bobbie nestled in a blanket that her great great grandmother Leah knit for me when I was a baby. Leah is my middle name, and Leah’s daughter was Roberta, who Bobbie is named …
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priorities
There’s nothing like being up with a newborn in the middle of the night, her staring up at you with your own Eyes, to make work feel so far way. Every deadline and contract and …
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mama’s water
Joe has never been a Mama’s boy, he belongs to each of us equally, if anything it’s Morrison that’s usually making him laugh while I’m frantically getting his lunch ready, googling his snot, finding him …
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reasons I’ve cried
One of the MANY MANY THINGS they don’t tell you about what happens after you give birth, other than the fact that you won’t poop for ten years and this will cause some stress, is …
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Bob 💫
For anyone counting, hopefully no one is counting? I haven’t posted here in 5 DAYS so please revoke my perfect attendance certificate, I’ve been loyally (obsessively?) posting here every day, or at least every other …
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‘Twas the night before my C section
It’s the weirdest thing but also the BEST thing to know exactly when and how you will have your baby, like you’re going for a Genius Bar appointment. They’ll pop her out like a peach …
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party of 4
Morrison says he feels like we’re already a family of four, probably because I’ve been lumbering around smuggling this human upside down pineapple for months now, but also because we always hoped and dreamed we …
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VBAC
When you have a C-Section with your first and get pregnant again, there is this term tossed around by your Gynecologist: VBAC, which stands for Vaginal Birth after C Section. It’s offered to you like …
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love yourself
Joe, today is Valentine’s Day, which is a day that has some historical roots that I won’t go into because I do not know them, there was, or is, a Saint? It’s a day that …