I know! It’s just crazy! I’ve been moisturizing, and my legs are still itching like mad. It MUST be the pregnancy…
So I am finally noticably pregnant. I was noticably fat for a while, but that uncomfortable point has apparently passed. People have started asking when I’m due, so that’s a good sign!

It can be hard for many childbearing women to accept the way their bodies look post-pregnancy… Hey, it’s hard to accept the way our bodies look even pre-pregnancy. Here’s a cool site I found called The Shape of a Mother, which states:
Becoming a mother changes everything in your world - including your body.Here we share [...]

Just so you know I wasn’t kidding when I said Esther was beautiful right from the start, here’s a picture to prove it. This is when she’s just a couple days old… sometime while we were still in the hospital. The funny thing is, subsuquent pictures are often quite odd-looking. I look at them [...]

I am the queen of procrastinating, but I finally made an appointment for my first ultrasound.  At last, confimation that the swelling around my middle is actually a baby!! Still have to get myself to the clinic to have some blood tests or something… maybe tomorrow
I don’t know how we’re supposed to have [...]

I have never been a big fan of newborns. Kittens and puppies, yes, but not babies. I like kids when they were a bit older and not so funny looking. My friend Alexis says babies come in 2 categories, and of course I forget what they are, but neither is complimentary, and one of them [...]

OK here’s another thing that I blame on pregnancy. Memory loss. I can’t seem to remember things the way I used to, although I can’t be sure of that since I don’t really remember lots of things I used to know. I find myself saying wistful things to my husband, like, “Do you remember when [...]

My legs have been realllllyyy itchy, and someone said it must be from the pregnancy. That’s what we love about pregnancy, you can blame everything on it… skin break outs, weight gain, horrible moods, it’s all covered! So of course, like I do most things, I had to google this itchy skin thing.
Babycenter.com says: It’s [...]

Hey moms and dads-to-be, wondering what it’s really like to have a baby? Here’s one way to find out! Someone has invented a simulated infant, programmed to behave like a real baby! It’s main use, aside from teaching parenting skills, is to dissuate teenagers from getting pregnant. And I have little doubt that it works… [...]

According to this Pregnancy Calculator, I am 13 weeks and 5 days pregnant. The American Pregnancy Association states that the first day of pregnancy is counted from the first day of your last period, since it is often difficult to pin-point the exact date of conception. Let me tell you why this bothers me. I [...]

One of the most frustrating times of pregnancy is definitely that in-between period when you’re not as slim as you used to be, but not obviously pregnant enough to bring out the maternity clothes. That’s me right now. I just look like I’ve been taking a few too many digs into that bucket of chocolate [...]