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 25 – 28)

There’s a whole lot cooking in that bod of yours while baby has set up shop in your tummy.  Not only are you growing a tiny human with skin, fingernails, genitals and all, but your body is going through massive amounts of changes that it may not feel particularly congenial towards.  Dealing with all that [...]

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 [...]