Making my kids hate me one post at a time.
Spoiler alert: Meyer is almost 4 now. But our story is pretty crazy and I’ll never forget the preemie journey. Nothing can prepare you for it and nothing can get you through it except great medical technology and professionals, prayers, luck and love. Here’s my crazy preemie birth story. This time last year, I was in […]
Bed Rest, Day 12 Baby’s Gestational Age: 29 weeks Reading: Steve Jobs biography; assorted magazines; progress limited by constant “knock, knock” from hospital personnel Watching: Arrested Development, Season 1; The Big C, Season 1; see above. Bed Rest. Mom guilt. Internet shopping. It’s a lethal combination. A coupe of days ago, a product of this […]
Bed Rest, Day 10 Baby’s Gestational Age: 28 weeks, 5 days Since there seem to be so many people out there who are clearly devoid of a filter and/or who have no idea when to shut their pie-holes, here is a (noncomprehensive) list of things not to say to a person who’s been confined to […]
Bed Rest, Day 8 Baby’s Gestational Age: 28 weeks, 3 days Somewhere between 7:30 and 8am: Knock, knock. A nurse comes in to take my blood pressure, pulse and temperature, scanning my bracelet like a bag of sugar at the grocery store. She gets me a new pitcher of water and reminds me to drink […]
Bed rest: Day 5. It’s a mind game. If you think beyond the day ahead, you will lose your shit. Sometimes my mind starts to drift towards the day after tomorrow, or next week, or next month. Or March. And I feel panic rising rapidly. Much like the water in a clogged toilet. Exactly like […]
This past Sunday, something really, really, very unexpected happened. My water broke. At only 27 weeks. When I realized something was going on, there was the rush to the emergency room and pretty quickly the realization that I was not going back home any time soon. Then the focus became just making sure the baby […]
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