Mission Motherhood

Baby Sexton has been given his official eviction notice.

Otherwise titled - my 39 week update.
Today, after the bean dog and I walked the 3 miles around the Reservoir near my house, I thought I might be leaking fluid. I called the OB just to if there was an easy way to tell fluid vs. normal discharge, but of course they had me [...]

Overdue 22 week update

Sadly, I’ve been horrible at making regular updates in here. At the beginning of the pregnancy I bought a journal that I’ve been updating, so all is not lost, but I still wish I’d been better at keeping track of my progress. Oh well, too late now!
So far, so good with the little [...]

Things no one tells you…

Let me preface with the fact that I’m a pretty happy pregnant lady. So far - I’ve enjoyed the experience. That said, why didn’t anyone tell me about these things!?
Gas.Seriously, the worst gas of your life when you’re knocked up. I think I could single handedly kill a room full of puppies if I let [...]

11 weeks 6 days

Turns out I’m not so good at this blog thing. Hopefully I’ll get better as this pregnancy progresses.
Last week we had another ultrasound to see our fetus. There aren’t even really any words to describe how cool it is to see an actually baby shape waving back at you. We could see its little heart [...]

My night last night

6:00pm - Home from work7:00pm - Refused to cook and ordered pizza8:30pm - Fell asleep on the couch9:00pm - Woke up long enough to eat Ben and Jerry’s Cherry Garcia Frozen Yogurt10:00pm - Crashed in bed12:00am - Had a sleep talking conversation with Koka to “Get up and clean the chocolate off his back”. [...]