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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”. […]

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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) […]