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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]