I’m going to say what I’ve read nowhere else: being pregnant sucks. Since about 5.5 weeks into this experience I have been having ‘morning sickness’, which I am going to start calling ‘pregnancy sickness,’ because it is in no way confined to the morning. A typical day starts with my waking up, putting on my [...]
Archive > June 2005
What have I got to lose?
Thank the gods for Sea-Bands, Saltines and sugared lemon water. Maybe I will actually be able to leave the house tomorrow.
These words are my own…
Oh god. That’s about the only sentiment that encompasses everything I’m feeling both emotionally and physically. Over the past ten years I’ve done lots of reading about pregnancy, and I was sure I was prepared for the changes it would bring. Wrong. Reading the word ‘nausea’ in no way describes the so-called ‘morning sickness’ I [...]
Arriving February 2006.
Forgive the delay in new postings. This weekend passed by with all the speed of ten years, and I feel like last week was a dream. I’m coming out of the fog finally, and I thought, for posterity’s sake, I would list the sequence of events that led to my trip to the doctor last [...]
Where to begin?
These past few days have been some of the strangest of my life. I am sitting outside typing this underneath sunny, blue skies filled with wisps of white clouds, listening to the sound of windchimes as a breeze blows lightly in from the north. I feel as though I am looking through the world from [...]
Uhm.
Looks like the PMS isn’t what is making me so moody afterall. I’m pretty sure no amount of Midol in the world can make this feel better. More to come…
And again I say…
I already wrote this. It’s half this and half an article I wrote when I was about to leave for Ireland. At this point I’m not longer bitter, just scratching my head. I guess every article could be said to have been written before, but I want to read something different, insightful and provocative. Thank [...]
