Two years ago for Christmas I got a new set of towels. Not just any old towels. Big, oversized, super soft bath sheets. You know, the kind you can wrap around yourself three times and never worry about what might be showing if you wrap it too high or too low. Ladies, you know the kind I’m talking about. …
PregnancyWhen I was pregnant with my first daughter we experienced the hottest summer on record. And she was born on the very. last. day. of summer that year. Despite my worry about being pregnant through the summer – without knowing yet that it would be a record-setting one – I would plan it that way again given the chance. I …
PregnancyI had been googling gender reveal ideas for weeks. Saving all kinds of things to a private Pinterest board so that I wouldn’t spoil the surprise. My husband and I had even discussed names and talked about what we would do with the nursery. Then the time came for my 18-week anomaly scan. With our daughter we opted to hold …
ParenthoodUnless you’re twelve years old, you don’t consider 35 old. But in the world of pregnancy, 35 puts you in a special category – advanced maternal age. It’s a really nice way of calling you an old mom. At least it’s a little less extreme than the former term ‘geriatric pregnancy’. Geriatric? Really? How was that term ever allowed to …
ParenthoodI thought the fascination with the status of my uterus would end when I had my daughter. I was wrong. If anything the fascination has only grown. Maybe the assumption is that it’s safe to inquire now that I have a child, so I’m clearly willing and able. But what if I’m not? Did you forget how babies are made? …
