It was a year ago today that I gave birth to Owen. In retrospect, I don’t remember it being all that much work. How messed up is that? Both that I don’t remember how great it was, and that I don’t remember the pain involved. Being pregnant for nine months felt longer than having a baby for a year. Time goes too fast in between feedings and naps to even realize a week has passed. After a 27-year great track record, I’m now officially late to everything. Forget trying to schedule things with other friends who have babies. Some things [...]

I wasn’t going to continue the series, but I couldn’t help thinking back to all of the advice I’ve received from comments on the blog, and how dead-on they were. I thought I’d share my thoughts… What you said — and you were RIGHT: Pampers for boys – Huggies for girls. I used the Huggies I had received from a baby shower, but when Owen’s “sleeping-through-the-night” was thwarted by two late-night leaky diaper outfit changes, they had to go. Kirkland diapers seem to be as good as Pampers for boys. Buy one sample of a few different bottles. Um, can’t [...]

After three weeks of doctor visits where I was apparently showing no signs of getting this baby out on my own, I was induced 8 days after my due date. This is certainly not how I planned on going into labor and I was a bit nervous of the consequences and knew that this increased my chances of having a c-section. But, after a LONG few weeks of waiting, my husband and I were excited to meet this baby we’d been trying to name for months. We had one final date night {Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse and Hot Tub Time Machine [...]

Tomorrow’s my due date. I have a feeling we’re going to see it come and go. At my 39 week ultrasound my doctor saw the baby’s head and said, “Holy Moly!” I knew he was thinking “holy moly that’s an adorable baby!” because I can’t bring myself to think that meant anything else. This due date thing is kind of like saying that Christmas may happen on December 25th, but it could be a few weeks before or a few weeks after, so just be ready. Oh, and you may be getting 7.4 gifts, or you may be getting 8.14 [...]