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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. […]

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 […]

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. […]

Is it a boy? Is it a girl? No, it’s Skeletor!
At least, that is what I believe. The photographic evidence given at yesterday’s ultrasound belies only the fact that the creature within me has a skull. The doctor kept excitedly pointing out, “Oh, there’s the bladder! It looks […]

“So when will your current project be finished?”
“In the middle of July.”
“Oh, wow, so the prospectus passed?”
“No. I was talking about the baby.”
“Oh.”
“Yeah, the dissertation. That’s eternally gestating.”
“So you’ll finsih it in the fullness of time then?”
“Exactly!”

Neal Shusterman’s book Unwind is one of the better Science Fiction-y young adult books I’ve read in a long time. Its set in the future after the “Heartland War.” This war pitted Pro-Life believers against Pro-Choicers. Ultimately, the war ended because of the “Bill of Life.” This Constitutional addendum said that […]

We are wrapping up week 18 here at Camp TheologyMama-to-be. I decided that I will keep my thoughts on this whole motherhood thing at a new blog, lest my 10 devoted readers at TheologyGirl would rather not read about it.
I can’t say that I have much insight into all things mother and baby related. […]