Archive for November, 2007
from inconsolable wretch to angel baby (part one): entry into the world
If you’d gone through what he’d gone through, you’d be pretty pissed off too.
First of all, he wasn’t expecting to come out yet. I certainly wasn’t expecting him yet.
First-born babies are ALWAYS late, right?
I was so busy psyching myself up for the potential of three remaining weeks of difficulty walking, sitting, standing, extreme tiredness, the [...]
Posted by calm mama on Friday, November 30th, 2007 at 4:20 pm in birth story | 10 Comments »
mission accomplished!
more details and guest posts coming soon…
Posted by calm mama on Friday, November 30th, 2007 at 1:14 am in pregnancy | 5 Comments »
water has broken
Like the first wa-a-a-aa… You know. Like the Cat Stevens song.
Now we wait for labor to begin.
(Twinge.)
Was that it? Not yet…
Not sure when I’ll be posting again next. I’ve asked a few super-awesome parent blogger peeps to contribute posts for me over the next couple of weeks, as I will presumably be quite busy very [...]
Posted by calm mama on Sunday, November 25th, 2007 at 9:45 pm in don't panic, pregnancy | 7 Comments »
what our cat’s life is like
A pregnancy is hard on a cat. First of all. There’s no good lap space left. You try to rest your head and paws against this mountainous belly and either you slide down, or the belly moves and you slide down.
And then there’s all the new stuff.
You. Must. Investigate. The. New. Stuff.
You sit on top [...]
Posted by calm mama on Sunday, November 25th, 2007 at 1:23 am in pets, pregnancy, project p | comments »
last meal redux
I don’t know how many more date nights I can squeeze out of Scott before this baby comes, but we had one more tonight and no truffles to confuse us, so that was good.
We also figured out, not a moment too soon, that we’re just too old, pregnant, and tired for late night movies, so [...]