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Myself and I

That One Day

August 19, 2011

There was that one day, when all of the sudden, I awoke and felt like “OK. UM YEAH.” and wondering why in the world I couldn’t hardly walk anymore.
Then I took pictures for What I Wore this week, and said hmmmm.
Then I put those pictures side by side and my eyes popped out.
Do you think [...]

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Here and There

August 15, 2011

Source: musicphilosophy.co.uk via Arianne on Pinterest
I’ve been here and there lately, come have a looksie:
My take on if video cameras should be allowed in the delivery room…
Breastfeeding in public and what the big commotion might be really about…
What you need to know on how to choose a midwife…
On how you can avoid sunscreen and sunburn…
My [...]

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Let Me Just Pour Out A Bit

August 9, 2011

As labor nears I feel new and old familiar stirrings pushing their way to the surface.
Apparently they were there all along. Not handled, but set aside for later.
And yesterday after me saying just the right things and him replying with just the right things, the stirrings came pouring out like a volcano.
And oh they are [...]

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What I Wore (at 33 weeks!)

August 3, 2011

Friends nudge and want belly sightings
and I make haste and doll up
and do as asked.
Many sighs and eyerolls in the direction of my closet later,
{oh closet. how you lack.}
here’s where we are.
At week 33, my belly and me.
My 8 year old photog and I, literally melting.
Him snapping away while I made futile attempts to not [...]

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On Staying Grounded

July 29, 2011

Sweet babe growing and stretching
showing off the most beautiful bum through belly.
I prepare to birth as the new me,
since she’s never given birth before.
New dreams and new lessons learned
the pieces fit back together but remain changed
even now, as healing isn’t over.
I wonder if it will ever be over?
To soul-heal and grow a baby at the [...]

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On Trimester Three

July 11, 2011

*Image by WeHeartIt

I have a quiet one in here.
Baby FiFi likes awake and sleep times,
but if memory serves,
all the brothers were wildness personified by now.
I reached the third trimester while traveling and
it doesn’t seem real.
Like HOW can it be real?
I’m so in love and so in disbelief,
still.

I wrote a bit about it today over [...]

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On Learning To Walk

July 10, 2011

*illustration by Oliver Jeffers

It must be some combination of
the hormones and the salads my husband keeps making for me.
The green smoothies that clear my mind and
leave only self awareness and love discovery.
As a soul-infant I wish to learn everything at once all of the sudden.
I fret about not being able to learn fast enough.
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On Holiday

July 7, 2011

I have this post in my drafts that says nothing but
“when I was a young warthog”
I can’t remember why I wrote that or where I was going with it…
and every time I look at it I am surprised again.
It’s kindof like when you go on a trip and think you will have all this relaxing [...]

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When It Pours It Keeps Pouring

June 3, 2011

Remember how I shared all those things going on and was all “whee! stress! changes! uncertainty!”
So yeah. Even more happened this week. I wrote about it at Babble and would love for you to come see. My life is more cray than even I could make up…
Why I broke up with my midwife.
Pregnant with mold [...]