I will start with Ally, since the me one and the Addy one are less cheerful ( Read more... )

Yeah yeah, I know. But I keep thinking about things and like to get them out in words, so they go here ( Read more... )

So breastfeeding has been an adventure so far, as I expected. I knew going into this that it could be interesting, since I had so much trouble with my supply last time. I decided to be proactive this time and went in for a lactation consultation at about 36 weeks. They recommended a few different things to try, including a tincture that is ( Read more... )

(If you haven't read the birth story yet, you should probably read that first, for context ( Read more... )

As the title says, it is graphic and full of TMI stuff, so read at your own risk ( Read more... )

So I am basically writing right now (although this is long overdue) to keep my mind off the fact that I am extremely nauseous at the moment. My third trimester nausea hasn't been nearly as bad or as often as last pregnancy, but when it hits, it *hits* so I have to do something right now or I will just be laying on the bed in misery ( Read more... )

This is long overdue, but it has been a crazy few weeks! A lot has happened lately, some of which I have posted about briefly on facebook, some not really. Most of this post will be a copy-paste from the email update I just sent to my doula, hehe - why type things twice ( Read more... )

So potty training. Well, it is definitely an ongoing adventure at this point. The basic gist of weekend was that she was to go bottomless around the house the entire weekend, with basically no leaving the house for 3 days and diapers only for sleeping. The problem with that working for her, I think, is her age. She is in this middle state - we ( Read more... )

Life is pretty good right now. I still have days where I have no energy and get sad for no reason (is depression *during* pregnancy instead of after a thing?) but otherwise I am doing good. The cravings are intense though, can't seem to fight them at all this time. I become obsessed with specific things until I get them. (Finally got my ( Read more... )

So I have apparently found a sure-fire cure for morning sickness - whining about it on livejournal, lol. Just a couple of days after posting my last entry, it went away and hasn't come back. Go figure. My exhaustion is a bit better too, so I have been able to do more the past few days (which is good since Paul's mom was in town). Even handled ( Read more... )