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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 project p, pets, pregnancy | comments »
today, i cooked
I had energy. My body didn’t ache. On days when I have energy, when it doesn’t hurt to move, I don’t mind being this pregnant. Seven, ten, 24 days to go. Not sure when he’s going to arrive, but I still have yet to utter that famous end-of-gestation battle cry: “Get this baby out of […]
Posted by calm mama on Friday, November 23rd, 2007 at 10:56 pm in project p, pets, pregnancy | comments »
still life: knitting with cat
baby sweater in progress. cat napping.
Posted by calm mama on Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 at 12:27 am in pets, pregnancy | comments »
a cat and a half, briefly
This is our cat Bambino. He is fond of my big preggy belly.
This is Molly.
Molly likes to come into our house for a scratch…
or a nibble…
…but Molly is Not Our Cat. She belongs to our next-door neighbor. Theoretically.
However, morning, noon, and night, Molly comes to visit. Mostly to nibble.
If we do not immediately […]
Posted by calm mama on Thursday, October 11th, 2007 at 6:07 pm in pets, pregnancy | 5 Comments »
about our cat
After nearly two weeks of being in and out of various hospitals, receiving hydration and blood transfusions, having her chin positively crusted with liquid medicines and vitamin supplements that she didn’t want to swallow, our Fred-cat was diagnosed with cancer.
We got the news on my birthday. We had been waiting for the latest round of […]
Posted by calm mama on Wednesday, July 4th, 2007 at 8:46 am in pets | 3 Comments »
i’m ready for my close up, mr. demille*
Happy Birthday to me: I’m 38 years old today. And I’m debuting on Parenting.com’s new website, Project Pregnancy. Click the link to read my first new post. It’s on circumcision. Ow! (You’ll also see a few “archived posts” which you may have previously read here on this website.)
From now on, I’ll be posting at […]
Posted by calm mama on Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 at 9:53 am in pets, pregnancy | 1 Comment »
my toxoplasmosis infection
It was one week ago today that I finally received the “good news” about my toxoplasmosis infection. It’s an old one. Not acute. While I had fantasized that this famous lab in Palo Alto would be so sophisticated as to glean from my blood sample what year I’d been infected, all I learned from my […]
Posted by calm mama on Wednesday, May 9th, 2007 at 10:39 am in pets, don't panic, pregnancy | comments »
an email about toxo
This is an email I wrote to a friend this morning:
…I’m doing okay today. Just not going to worry. Hah! So I have some kind of parasite, bad things could result. My doctor wouldn’t tell me what b/c she didn’t want to scare me, so I went around gleaning bits of info and scared myself. […]