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 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 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 [...]

Seen on Facebook status update

Mike … went and probed an alien last night – just to see if THEY like it

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 [...]

Pre-wedding poem jitters – What was I thinking? (Part 2)

April 28 – Had the florist meeting tonight, I brought along my trusty notebook so I could write poems during any downtime.  I finished my best friend’s parents’ poem, which was particularly challenging as her father always tends to grade my work.  “That piece in the paper last week was a little weak, I’d give it a [...]