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By kate on July 7th, 2005

This morning, I was grabbed immediately to work on a tech issue that lasted all morning (and still isn’t completely fixed). As a result, I got grumpy and felt overwhelmed. Is this pregnancy-enhanced moodiness? Or is it normal, given the circumstances? I can’t really tell. After taking a lunch break to surf blogs, I felt […]

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Name

By kate on July 6th, 2005

We need to figure out a temporary name for the child until it has a gender and an actual name (which may not be until after birth, in the latter case). “Tim” was in the running, except now I know an actual Tim in real life, so it would be too weird. My new idea […]

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What to Expect

By kate on July 6th, 2005

Steve and I looked through all the pregnancy books at Big & Chain bookstore this weekend, looking for one that might somewhat share our attitude. (We are trying to eschew all the fear-based advice and long lists of things to avoid.) One book that I dismissed out-of-hand was What to Expect When You’re Expecting, based […]

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Beauty

By kate on July 6th, 2005

This baby has been eagerly anticipated by both our families (there was a lot of happy screaming when we shared the news). My mom in particular can’t wait to go through this experience with me. When I saw her for the first time on Monday, she said, “let me look at you,” and held me […]

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Learning

By kate on July 6th, 2005

I was poking around a bit on BabyCenter, which is a big, mainstream baby site. Because of its size, it has a lot of useful info (despite my resistance to the mainstreamness). According to their calculator, our due date is March 6, 2006. I also found out that it is THIS WEEK that the baby […]

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New Project…

By kate on July 5th, 2005

My life changed irrevocably this weekend, when we found out for sure that I’m pregnant. Coming in to work today, I ruminated on how different I am now than I was when I left on Friday. So far, the only physical symptom is a bit of weight gain. Already. One of my favorite things […]