Having a baby is exciting, obviously, but intimidating. Car seats and strollers are two especially baffling things, at least for Mr. Owl and me. The first time we went to Mothercare and started checking out the different types of strollers (and how much they cost), I just wanted to go home and take a nap. [...]
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I know I’m not supposed to have a birth plan, but I thought it might be ok to have a birth vision. I am aware that having a birth plan is a set up for disappointment because it almost never works out exactly the way you want it. But for weeks I have secretly been [...]
Since I got pregnant, I’ve had cravings, of course. They’ve run the gamut from Mexican food (Mr. Owl has come to accept that at least once a week, he will be eating tacos for dinner), to (American) Chinese food (as a native of the Ozarks, I’m obsessed with Springfield chicken; I had no idea that [...]
As I turn 39 weeks today, my husband and I are officially on baby watch. This week, I started working from home, which is a welcome relief from driving to the office and sitting on a hard desk chair all day. I feel a little more relaxed and definitely more comfortable, but at the same [...]
Early in my pregnancy, it took forever to get to 12 weeks when we started to tell family and friends, and then even longer to get to 20 weeks, when we found out the gender. By 30 weeks, I was starting to get excited to meet our baby, but I also wanted time to slow [...]
I am an extremely organized person. I like making lists, cleaning out drawers, sorting items and finding a place for everything. I keep detailed calendars. Clutter stresses me out. But for the first four months of my pregnancy, I didn’t want to do anything to prepare for our baby except read. Books, blogs, research studies—I [...]
Last summer, Mr. Wand (poor guy, I can’t think of a better pseudonym for him. Maybe The Wizard?!) and I were ready for a baby. We had done everything together we wanted to do and we were ready for “something new,” as he put it. We did all the prep work before “starting to try”—doctor’s [...]
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