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Archive for the ‘Growing Your Family’ Category

On Raising Men or Ensuring My Future Daughter-in-Laws Don’t Hate Me: A Checklist

I don’t think it’s ever too early to start grooming little boys into kind-hearted, well-intentioned men. In fact, I would argue that you MUST start early. So, here is the checklist that I’m working from right now…please feel free to add to it…I can use all the help I can get… 1. Pick up after [...]

Wherein I Learn That A Kitten Is Not The Same Thing As A Baby

It’s been over a year and a half since my fertility specialist told my husband and me that we have a one percent chance of getting pregnant naturally. Wow! That was a shocker. Even though we knew something was wrong (duh! – we’d been trying for over two years), we still had trouble accepting this [...]

A Birth Story…Or…A Flashback to High School Biology Class

From the time I started high school, I dreaded the day I would have to dissect a frog in biology class. It seemed disrespectful and, quite frankly, positively disgusting, to slice open and pick around the innards of a frog. Twenty years later, I never dreamed I would feel a certain kinship with that frog. [...]

New Baby for MoltoMom

We are pleased to announce that MoltoMom gave birth to a healthy baby boy on March 16th. We don’t have many details yet but we do know that the baby weighed in at 10 lbs. 7 oz. and was 21 1/2 inches long. Wow, what a big boy! Congratulations to MoltoMom! We hope to hear [...]

Learning to Juggle

Last week, a fact really hit home for me – I’m about to have another baby. Of course, I’ve known this for quite some time – roughly seven months now, but the reality of it hit me like a ton of bricks as I lay in a hospital bed hooked up to a fetal monitor [...]

Night Moves

I spent a couple hours last night staring at my belly. At first in utter amazement that it is so full and round – I think it’s much bigger now than it was at this point with my first – and I’m wondering how much bigger it could possibly get. Then I sat back and [...]

Angry Red Spots

My husband and I had been trying for a second pregnancy for over two years when I finally decided to go to the doctor. She ran a blood test and informed me that my sagging 41-year-old body is no longer ovulating. “What!” I exclaim. “I’m not ovulating AT ALL?” “Well, not this month,” she replied [...]