Back from 3 days away, and in the count-down to having a new baby around, M & I are stepping up our decluttering. Our goal is to create space for a new baby – physical and emotional – and free ourselves from the burden of extra STUFF that will absorb our energy. More things = …
I deeply, sincerely love my new niece! My mom & I spent 3 days visiting/helping this past week, and boy was it a delight. She is small, sweet, soft, beautiful, adorable, and the most absorbing thing to stare at that I have ever seen. Talk about a meditative state – I could literally hold her …
Yesterday was a wonderful, restful, home-based indulgent day. Delightful! M got a call in the morning to go mountain biking with friends, and I encouraged him to go. That left me home for a number of hours and I read a book – cover to cover, what a treat! (this is in addition to finishing …
Good visit with the midwife today, and also big push: I’m going to give birth within a couple of months, and we NEED to do the Pink Kit. It’s a New Zealand resource to help birthing women and partners by teaching you about your pelvis, breathing, positions for labour, etc. So tonight, though tired, we …
I’m so proud of my little sister! She just had her beautiful baby on Sunday. And I’m so glad for my brother in law, who was such a great support for her. I’ve been thinking a lot about childbirth over the last 8 months, but having someone so close to me give birth changes my …
As we plan out our diapering strategy for baby, I’ve been very taken with the concept of what some call early or infant toilet training, and others refer to as elimination communication. The idea, as described in The Diaper Free Baby by Christine Gross-Loh, is that babies are born with elimination reflexes comparable to feeding …
Baby is so great! He’s the adorablest. I had another dream about baby – may have been partly a waking dream – where his foot started poking out the top of my stomach, then it was TOTALLY poking out, and I could see it clearly and it was rolling back and forth across the top …
I can’t believe I can write this: this was my last day at work. For the forseeable future. For at least one year. How did that happen?! And what will life be like without work? I suppose I’ve had breaks from work before, but this one feels substantially different, new life phase different. All the …
Last night my belly was kind of hurting – I think I’ve started to have Braxton-Hicks contractions, with my abdomen occasionally insanely heavy, out of breath, tight and sore. So maybe it was that, or worry, or just baby talking to me, but I went back to sleep to a dream of baby. In my …
I can’t believe I have only 11 more days of work left. !! I can feel my pace picking up, as it usually does as I approach a deadline. It’s a quirk of mine that I like to have things finished, neat and tidy before going out to have fun or move on to something …