From the monthly archives:

April 2011

On Breathing

April 30, 2011
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I struggled and limped and crawled my way through this last week to make it to week 19. It wasn’t how I thought it would be.
I imagined reaching week 19, now farther than we got with Mabel, and celebrating. Throwing a little party at home, dancing. Joy overflowing.
But the reality is that a new layer [...]

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17 Weeks

April 14, 2011
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Wind blew spring into these parts. On its way out winter invited my nausea to join it in leaving town and going into hibernation. I will miss neither of them.
I’ve been feeling better and better (though still no luck cooking or even looking in the fridge. gulp.) and I still can’t believe there’s a growing [...]

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On Learning To Suffer Well

April 11, 2011

I lay and feel this baby, 16 weeks along now, move and wiggle inside me. I cannot get enough of each and every womb-touch.  I take it all in. I gulp and gulp and swallow this experience whole. I cannot. Get. Enough.
But also.
I remember.
Laying in a dark room in my bed with a completely silent [...]

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