Surviving Pregnancy – How I grew a naked baby in my belly (Week 40 and on …)

Spoiler alert …
Childbirth hurts. Period. Don’t let ‘em tell you different.
Now go on and enjoy the best damn thing that will ever happen in your life. Period.

Surviving Pregnancy – How to grow a naked baby in your belly (Weeks 37 – 40)

By now you should start wrapping up all the loose ends of your previous life, and might be enjoying your last week at work before mat leave. I found this time to be very emotional (although I also find new haircuts, choosing the perfect picture on a Kleenex box and planting flowers emotional, so [...]

Surviving Pregnancy – How I grew a naked baby in my belly (Weeks 33-36)

Although I was consistently at awe with the miraculous things that Pregnancy Bod was achieving, I was now very, very tired. Growing a tiny naked human being in your gut is nothing to sneeze at, and I wished that I didn’t squirt a little bit of pee with each sneeze. Watching my belly [...]

Surviving Pregnancy – How to grow a naked baby in your belly (Weeks 29 to 32)

If you’re a documenter like me, you tend to want to stamp an impression of every stage of your life in some creative and artistic way for future prosperity. I take Polaroids and press them into my diary so a picture accentuates my words, I keep scrapbooks of my kids with little mementos adorning [...]

Surviving Pregnancy – How to grow a naked baby in your belly (Weeks 21 to 24)

Right about now I was beginning to have enough of this life changing experience.  The aches, pains, nausea and all the other accoutrements accompanying pregnancy were starting to take their toll on my body and mind.  My Facebook status updates, that had once started as a ‘Debbie is experiencing the wonder of life under her [...]

Surviving Pregnancy – How to grow a naked baby in your belly (weeks 17 to 20)

The one perk to pregnancy that I thoroughly enjoyed was not obsessing over my stomach.  I’ve been cursed with a pudge in that area that refuses to respond to crunches, starvation diets or downright admonishments.  Any clothes I wear adhere to a strict criteria which include the right amount of looseness in the front, so [...]

Surviving Pregnancy – How to grow a naked baby in your belly (Weeks 13 to 16)

Maybe there’s a reason why confirmation of a pregnancy requires urination.  It’s God’s way of saying get used to it now because there will be a lot of peeing in your future.  What was once an automatic bodily function that didn’t require much thought or foresight suddenly takes over your life.  My three-year-old’s successful potty training [...]

Surviving Pregnancy – How to grow a naked baby in your belly (weeks nine to 12)

Ah, the first trimester of pregnancy.  Nothing short of a miracle is your body’s capabilities.  So what if you’re suddenly sleepy all the time, yet have slept less than ever due to a constant need to pee?  And what’s a little constipation and facial blemishes in comparison to the joy that is about to enter [...]

Surviving Pregnancy: How to grow a naked baby in your belly (weeks five to eight)

Funny how urinating can change your life.  Getting a positive result from a pregnancy test is a true high, especially if you’ve received some lows from negative results in the past.  It’s happened to me (the positive) three times, and it’s the same incredulous feeling every time.  Even though for the previous six months I’ve been brazenly engaging in [...]

Surviving Pregnancy: How to grow a naked baby in your belly (Weeks one to four)

If you’re reading this blog chances are you’ve been pregnant before, are pregnant now or are thinking about becoming pregnant, all of which are worthy of a hearty congratulations.  Well ladies (or handful of transgender men yet to make their appearance on Oprah), it’s an experience that will drag you through the emotional wringer: The miracle of childbirth.  Or, as my [...]