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By kate on July 30th, 2005

When we confirmed that I was pregnant, Steve presented me with a very light cardboard box. The inside was filled with packing peanuts and a few folded index cards, with a point value written on the outside of each. He explained that whenever I needed cheering up, I could reach into the box and open […]

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The afternoon wall

By kate on July 28th, 2005

I’m finding a consistent pattern in how I feel in the afternoons. A little while after lunch, my energy goes down and I want a nap. The feeling sticks with me all afternoon, pretty much, even if I have a pot of tea. (I tend to have low-caffeine tea in the afternoons.) I keep saying […]

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Met a midwife

By kate on July 27th, 2005

Steve and I had a preliminary appointment with a midwife today, to get to know her a little and see what we thought. She was knowledgeable, experienced, and straightforward. Steve and I realized afterwards that we were expecting someone charismatic, but she was more laid back than that. She answered our questions, and we generally […]

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Biding time

By kate on July 26th, 2005

When I was little, and my birthday or Christmas was coming up, I had trouble waiting through what seemed like an impossibly huge number of days. My parents came up with a cool idea that really got me through the anticipation. They had me create a linked chain of paper loops, one loop per day. […]

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Are you my Mommy?

By kate on July 22nd, 2005

I’ve been giving some idle thought to what I’ll be called as a parent. The default is “Mom” – what my own mother was called, and I think the majority of people in this country use Mom. I’d be OK with Mom. “Mama” has gotten a bit of hip cachet these days (from Hip […]

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Update from Steve

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”. […]