It is really not much of an exaggeration to say that I hear this pretty much any time Baby Kitten and I are out together. While I appreciate the compliment (cute certainly is a nice thing to hear), I cannot help but inwardly cringe a little bit. Being the type to not want to be [...]
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I can’t believe she has already been with us for over seven weeks. It has been quite the whirlwind, but I think we are finally starting to move towards our new normal. I was torn about writing her birth story, mainly because I was (and still am, to be honest) upset with how her first [...]
Over the past four months, our once guest/storage/cat room has been slowly transformed into Baby Kitten’s bedroom. The process was certainly slow going at times, as it is only this week (for those keeping score, my 39th week of pregnancy) that we are finally calling it done. We kept the budget as small as possible, [...]
Previously I wrote about getting none of the regular “pregnancy treatment” expectant mothers seem to get. I really shouldn’t have made that declaration in a public form, because oh man, it has now come in spades! It’s coming mostly from acquaintances, and a few from strangers, with the worst, like always, coming from those I [...]
Since I’m looking at crossing the finish line soon (and I have yet to download baby shower pictures from my camera), I present you with what I didn’t expect while expecting. All day nausea for 5 straight weeks. I had almost no appetite, and had trouble eating more than a small plate of food for [...]
As the weeks ticked on, I was totally prepared for the various aches and pains of pregnancy. What I wasn’t prepared for was the onset antepartum depression, or simply put, depression during pregnancy. Up to 25 percent of pregnant women can suffer from depression during pregnancy, especially during the third trimester. It was actually thought [...]
The single thing that most keeps me up at night, aside from the whole having to readjust constantly, is my fear that I will not be the best role model for my daughter. I think every woman and her family could define best differently, but for me personally, it is quite simple. I want to [...]
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