Liam
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Liam’s Birth Story
Monday I went to work and felt like hell pretty much all day. Braxton Hicks contractions plagued me (a “practice” contraction that makes your belly muscles hard), so that my stomach and ribs…
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Tuesday’s Child is Full of Grace
6:33 pm, he made his way into this world, 8 pounds, 5 ounces of squirming, squalling misery. Like my labor with his brother, a slow start, but a dash to the finish. This…
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Inspiration-less
The root word for inspiration (spiro) means to breathe, did you know that? It’s very hard to be clever or thoughtful or inspirational when one literally cannot breathe. But I’m sick of writing…
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A Quick Note to My Son
Angus (not your real name) – Throughout this pregnancy, you have been more of an abstraction than even your brother was, which seems counterintuitive – I know what I’m getting, and yet I…