Archive for March, 2008
It’s not my hormones. It’s the world.
My clothes don’t fit.
This is inconvenient, because I don’t even really look that pregnant. If I stand up straight and suck in my stomach as I have been taught to do my whole life, then I just look a little pudgy. So the fact that I no longer have jeans is pretty traumatic. […]
But the other 65 percent is all maternal love, baby girl
Recently Peter informed me that his “expectant father” book told him that a woman’s brain shrinks during pregnancy. Or, that is, the brain cells shrink. I thought he said they shrink by 35 percent. The following conversation ensued:
“You’re making that up.”
“I am not! I will get the book and […]
Maybe she was going out after work?
I went for my midwife appointment the other day filled to the brim with questions. Questions spurred mostly by strangers on the internet. I belong to a message board for mothers expecting a baby in July, and they are women busily preparing for their new addition. Me? Not so much. […]
