I can officially make the following comments: The newborn stuff is SOOOO much easier the second time around. I have almost no anxiety this time, I am managing his feeding better, and I am forcing that baby to sleep two four-hour sessions at night (by feeding him very frequently in the day). I also said…
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 were aching from 10am on. At the end of the day, The Professor called and said he couldn’t come and pick me…
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 labor was hard, and a little melodramatic at the end. The midwife came in a scant handful of minutes before he came…
A Pillar of Salt
“My parents were in Mississippi at their farm. They thought they’d be safer there than in the city. They weren’t answering their phones, and I heard on the radio that their town had a direct hit. It took me forty hours to get to them. I was shaking the whole way.” Most of the people I know well down…
Summer, in All Its Glory
We were sitting in front of the t.v. fanning ourselves at about 7pm tonight when suddenly everything clicked off. The power was out. Woe. I thought fearfully of a night without AC, of my freezer full of carefully cooked meals dribbling juices out the door in a big savory mess, and worse – of spending…