Pregnancy

Pregnancy meanderings.

Julie / August 10, 2010

As much as it amazes me how different our two children are, this pregnancy is really shocking me a lot more!  The first two were night-and-day in the sense that with E, I had hyperemesis gravidarum and threw up all the way through to and in labor, whereas with R, I literally didn’t throw up a single time.   But otherwise,…

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Pregnancy

First love, then marriage, then?

I have been reading a so-far delightful book, entitled Start Your Family: Inspiration for Having Babies, by Steve and Candice Watters of Boundless fame. And yes, I know, we don’t need inspiration.  I’m reading it more for philosophical reasons–and, honestly, “˜cause it’s such a bargain at Amazon, and I had the notion that it might be a useful book to…

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Pregnancy

First kicks.

I felt E move at about 22 weeks–hideously late.  And I felt her move on the outside before I could feel her inside.  R was a totally different story; I felt her at 12 weeks and it seems like we could feel her outside around 18 or so.  So I thought, oh, first baby, feel late, how normal. Then I…

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