Getting the party started

I took a Zumba class at work today. It still feels really good to move around โ€“and makes me forget that baby and I are spine-to-spine– and I can take it easy, since I was just taking class instead of teaching. It was a great class, and the best part was when my boss walked…

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Trying something new

Efforts to help the baby flip from posterior position to LOA (facing my right side, how she was until a week ago) have gone from pretty simple: (using my stability ball as a chair and to bounce and rotate my hips whenever possible) to a little crazy: I spent 10 minutes the other night with…

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10 days before my due date

my pregnancy gave to meโ€ฆ 10 pairs of lululemon pants that are suddenly all too snug 9 days of wondering 8 days of walking 7 fierce contractions 6 warm baths to take 5 unexplained cravings (anchovies!) 4 hospital outfits 3 cups of daily tea 2 acupuncture appointments and 1 precious sunny-side up babbbyyyyyyyy.

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I halfway understood

The other night, we were channel-surfing, trying to find something to watch that wasnโ€™t Adult Swim or the Kardashians [our preferences vary a little]. Tom left it on HBO for a second, to see what was on, and on the screen was an image of a pregnant woman, undressed, looking at herself in the mirror.…

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What I Learned About Cloth Diapers

A few weeks ago, which ended up being a pretty stressful day, my friend Nicole taught me and my friend Kelly a TON about cloth diapering. At the time, I was apprehensive about it (for *these reasons*) but by the time I left her house, I felt fully on board the cloth diaper train. It…

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How Eats Have Changed

Eats are always changing and evolving based on discovering new ingredients, changes in activity levels, and learning more about your body and nutrition over time. My eats have changed quite a lot since I started the blog over 3 years ago, but theyโ€™ve changed even more in the past 27 weeks. A wonky appetite was…

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Sometimes…

When I eat something extra delicious, the baby will kick like crazy. Tom says that sheโ€™s dancing and squeezing the umbilical cord to get the good stuff out- kind of like squeezing the end of a tube of toothpaste. I find this image borderline disturbing and hilarious at the same time. [No spoon in your…

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Baby-proofing

We love having friends over for dinner or just to hang out. I still havenโ€™t invited any of our friends with babies or small kids over, since our house isnโ€™t exactly baby-proof. [We do have a fun playset in the backyard that needs to be broken in, though] We have things low to the ground,…

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A mozzie’s cozzie?

Today I had my last โ€œmonthlyโ€ midwife appointment- from here on out, theyโ€™re every two weeks. My appointment was with the first midwife I met at the practice, and I adore her. She walks into the room, sits in her chair and looks at me, ready to answer questions and takes all the sweet time…

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Fun and Blahs of Pregnancy

Online, Iโ€™ve read a lot of pregnancy gripes. Iโ€™m also guilty of occasionally complaining about the not-so-fun parts of pregnancy, but 99.9% of the time I love it. I can already tell that Iโ€™ll be kind of sad when Iโ€™m not pregnant anymore, but [god-willing], Iโ€™ll have a happy, healthy little baby girl instead ๐Ÿ™‚…

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New Nutrition Focus

Weโ€™ve only taken two classes so far, and Iโ€™m really enjoying the Bradley Method classes. Not only does it gives me two dedicated hours of weeknight quality time with Tom [his schedule is so frantic during the week- mine is still busy, but more flexible], time to focus on the baby, a bonus massage at…

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Baby Can Zumba

4 1/2 weeks: 12 1/2 weeks: Thereโ€™s a legit baby in there ๐Ÿ™‚ It was so crazy to go to todayโ€™s ultrasound and see a REAL baby. No lentil, no little beanโ€ฆ a baby. And my experience with todayโ€™s ultrasound compared to the one I had almost a month ago: night and day. No cold…

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