So the conversation happening in our house this week is how much time C will take off when the baby is born. Some of this will be dictated by finances and some by preference, but inquiring minds want to know: How much time did you / your significant other take off when you had a [...]
Quick poll after another prenatal visit. 1. Are you using / have you used an OB or a midwife? 2. How long are your appointments generally? Does the length of appointment depend on what stage of pregnancy you are in? 3. What kinds of testing, questions, and information does your care provider give at each appointment? [...]
So you’ll remember I had a fantastic list of plans for this planned break. So far it’s been mostly just a list, as we’ve been busy and de-stressing but not on the things I thought. We probably have just under three weeks and just about two more weekends until we’re in another TWW. One of [...]
The past few days have been a slow let down, an awkward transition from the movement of trying and the anxiety of waiting to the slower pace of pausing. The first day or so, I found myself symptom checking on a regular basis, for some reason not fully conscious of the confirmed end of the [...]
Because I want to have a future focus today, here is my list of things I’d like to change before baby comes, in no particular order: Our dinner routine. While we eat at home more than a lot of folks we know and while we do a good job meal planning, we often find ourselves [...]
Yes, it’s kind of a random question. But back when I was probably 15 or 16 and long before I even considered the idea of anything other than heterosexual bliss (another long story), I knew – vaguely – that some women could not have babies “the natural way” and that those women turned to artificial [...]
Checked in with the doctor yesterday and we are set to go later this week (will begin daily monitoring tomorrow). If you followed along during try #1, you realize that my philosophical ponderings quickly gave way to symptom checking and anxiety once we inseminated, so now is the time to prepare to make sure this [...]
You may remember that, back in the early days of planning to ttc, I posted about the medicalization of conception (and a part two). Both posts focused on the anticipated experience of being all-too-knowledgeable about the ttc process and the (over)thinking that can happen when you are forced to plan conception instead of having the [...]
Okay, this is a little tongue in cheek, since the question came from the realization that what I DON’T think of is a woman a couple of days past ovulation feeling pretty much the same as always. In all this planning to get ready to try, I never stopped to really consider what the actual [...]
(Okay, so this not really a question of the week at all, more a statement of minor angst) So the past few mornings, my temperature has been higher than I would have expected. Whatever, temperatures are weird like that. This morning, at 6:45 am, I used my trusty thermometer and it read 97.45. For me, [...]
