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By kate on July 13th, 2005

Button your pants before you stand up. This is a new mantra that I’m trying to learn. 🙂 My stomach isn’t very much larger when I’m standing up, but it seems less compressible. So, when I sit down, it doesn’t fold in as well as it used to. This makes my pants uncomfortable only when […]

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Body Movin’

By kate on July 10th, 2005

I’ve decided to just listen to my body with regard to exercise. I’ve used the elliptical machine a couple of times, and today I went for a regular jog with a friend. I felt fine – no tireder than usual. I felt good when I was done. I’m just going to keep on doing it […]

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Being active

By kate on July 8th, 2005

So much of the material I’ve found about exercising when pregnant is targeted toward women who don’t usually exercise much. I assumed most people work out to some degree, but maybe not. It’s been hard to find good advice for someone like me who runs and plays soccer. I did find this recent article. Today […]

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Grumpy?

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 […]