Archive for July, 2005

By kate on July 21st, 2005

I’ve been too busy to write much about what we’ve been up to, so here’s something Steve sent our family recently: We’re now at the point where we need to decide on a medical caregiver and facility for the birth. We’re still trying to decide between “midwife + birth center” vs “OB + hospital”. […]

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A little worse for the wear

By kate on July 21st, 2005

Thanks to a stressful week at work and the pregnancy kicking in a bit more, I’ve started to feel traces of nausea. It’s really not that bad, though, compared to what I hear other people have had. Mostly, it feels like it used to when I would read in the car. (In a side note, […]

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Birth Options

By kate on July 17th, 2005

Steve and I are in the process of researching birth options. We both decided right away that a home birth wasn’t really our thing. It sounds messy, and personally, I think I’d rather go to a special place to give birth, rather than in my regular old house. While I love my house, and feel […]

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Week by week

By kate on July 17th, 2005

When we first started trying to get pregnant, I went to Third Place Books to buy a pregnancy book. They had a pretty scant selection, but I wanted a book, so I chose the best of the lot: an old edition of Your Pregnancy Week-By-Week. The cover was so repellent (and the “trying” so secret) […]

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Weird Science

By kate on July 15th, 2005

The folks at Weird Genius Real Science are really trying to get the word out about their second annual Science Fair tomorrow night (click the link for more details). Steve and I went last year, and it was a blast (figuratively and literally). It’s a science fair for bizarre, eccentric, and artistic adults. I […]

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Good for a chuckle

By kate on July 13th, 2005

I have McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Lists on my RSS reader, and it’s always entertaining. Here’s a good example for today: Things Pandora Could Have Opened That Wouldn’t Have Produced Such Unpleasant Results.