I feel sick. In a short time-perhaps 2 hours, perhaps 1 hour-my son is going to think he's starving to death. And I won't be able to feed him. He’s getting an MRI in the morning at 8am under general anesthesia, and I was told that I absolutely could not feed him anything after 4am. It is now 4:12. He usually eats every 2-2.5 hours. So I fed ( Read more... )

I posted this to the Twins Forum ( Read more... )

I put on a hospital gown, and Chris and our doula Natasha put on scrubs.  I kissed my mom and Laura and Chris and a nurse walked me down the hall to the operating room.  In the operating room I sat on the operating table and my Ob chatted smilingly with me as several more of the operating team gathered and introduced themselves and went over ( Read more... )

 This is just so very very awesome, but I can't post it on fb because I've got some young readers and the lyrics might not sit well with their parents...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTQNwMxqM3E&feature=player_embedded#!

A friend posted about being surprised to realize his last several relationships had much of the same patterns to them, despite his having worked much on himself and grown much in the interim.  He felt that now that he knows he repeats himself, he'll make a list of "things to watch out for" and they'll help guide him in his future relationship ( Read more... )

 Along with my investigations of "transparency" verses "To Much Information" comes the question of what I might call "Appropriate levels of sharing".

Many years ago I heard a speaker on the topic of "relationships while in recovery from addiction"; (paraphrased)

"The program advises us to be completely honest about our past. So someone comes in and ( Read more... )

As part of my continuing work in preparing for my babies, I went to a hypno-birth specialist therapist last week (for a third session).  My request for this session was to help me continue to connect to these beings inside me that I was having trouble feeling close to.  We talked for a long time and I became more and more clear that I've have to ( Read more... )

 Save the date!  Baby shower is Sunday, december 19th.  Evite coming soon :)

On Nov 13, 2010, at 9:06 PM, Zoe Kunstenaar wrote ( Read more... )

 Just had a wonderful session, all about how we make meaning in our lives.  One of those sessions where I feel I must be getting at least as much out of it as my client.  I wanted to make some notes to remind myself of what was said in this session that makes me feel so calm and present.

We started off talking about how we twist ourselves up with ( Read more... )