Low light photo taken with camera phone gives effect of rainbow snow but cannot hide the recent increase in size of my belly: Not that long ago, I was reflecting on the second trimester AS IF IT WAS STILL HAPPENING.…
Month: September 2007
glucose tolerance testing
This morning, I took my oral Glucose Tolerance Test. Yet another fun thing about being a pregnant woman of Advanced Maternal Age (and thus being considered “at risk” for Gestational Diabetes). Read the minute-by-minute account of my test here.
being pregnant is a lot like having a broken leg
…you find yourself having to answer the same questions over and over again. It’s unavoidable. The pregnancy interview: (Upon finding out/noticing I am pregnant, I repeatedly got/get asked these questions.) On purpose? Are you going to find out the sex?…
not much happens in the second trimester
I’d noticed it at first in the meditations-for-each-week-of-pregnancy book I’ve been reading. During the initial phase of gestation, say, up to week 12 or so, things change fast. Hormones are raging. The brain is spinning and on fire. The cells…