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Pregnancy and birth

Readiness Update

by Lyn May 17, 2009

We’re long overdue for an update, but you won’t get anything profound. It’s all bullets around here. First, Gail is having super pumping success. She is a total milk machine. She cleared 5 ounces pumping yesterday and gets a few mL more every day. See the graph above of her output since day 2 of [...]

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It’s a good thing we have two (moms, that is)

by Lyn May 10, 2009

Pregnancy has not done much for my toddler parenting skills. Way back when, believe it or not, between the two of us, I was “the patient one.” With so many of my mental and physical resources going towards the end of this pregnancy, I have a much shorter fuse than I’d like with Leigh. It [...]

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What not to say to a pregnant lady…

by Lyn May 8, 2009

No one should ever ever say anything to a pregnant lady about how big or little she is. Really. Just don’t say anything at all. All you should say about appearance, if anything, is “You look great!” or “What a cute shirt.” I’m not someone who’s very sensitive about my body. Even for a few [...]

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“A good day in liver land”

by Lyn May 6, 2009

Two good things happened yesterday: 1) As Gail said, I got some labs back yesterday that indicate my liver could be a lot worse. We are nowhere near a level that would mean “get-the-baby-out-now,” though things can change quickly. That result was for blood drawn when my symptoms were much worse than they are currently [...]

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I am grateful for the chance to be an NGP

by Gail May 5, 2009

In part because of Lyn’s recent complications, I’ve been spending a lot of my time taking care of her. Some of that care is physical: massages are particularly soothing for her right now. Some of the care is emotional. Much of the care consists of doing the lion’s share work needed to take care of [...]

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The first drops of milk and a brief update

by Gail May 1, 2009

In anticipation of our earlier-than-expected arrival, I decided to accelerate my schedule for inducing lactation. Tuesday night I took my last birth control pill and last night, for the first time in almost two years, I used my old friend the breast pump. After pumping for 5-10 minutes I was able to produce a couple [...]

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The other shoe

by Lyn April 29, 2009

While neglecting this blog the last couple weeks, what we haven’t been writing about is how this pregnancy has now shifted from extremely healthy and extremely low-risk (although not necessarily easy, see the nose incident and that persistent morning sickness) to a moderately risky one necessitating pretty vigorous medical management. Great. We all know how [...]

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Three Years Ago: Looking Forward to Being an Onlooker

by Gail April 23, 2009

The last time Lyn and I were having a baby, we started to keep a joint journal in order to record and remember our experiences. We sent the journal back and forth on the computer, each of us writing in it when inspiration struck. Today I opened up that file and rummaged around in the [...]

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Retail therapy

by Lyn April 6, 2009

We’ve been short on deep thoughts here at FTST lately. For this I blame two things 1) My grant deadline on Wednesday and 2) Cleaning for Pesach. Why is it such a surprise every year? However, there are three things that have made our lives a little better lately: We are now proud owners of [...]

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What is now, just barely, a funny story (and disgusting TMI)

by Lyn February 17, 2009

Anyone who follows Gail on twitter (you can get to her feed at right) already knows a bit about my exciting incident last Friday. Here are the gory details. [NB: There is absolutely no way to tell this story without it being way too much information. Proceed at your own risk. It is gross.] Very [...]

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Couvade: My Pregnancy Symptoms

by Gail February 16, 2009

Here’s your new word of the day: Couvade, otherwise known as sympathetic pregnancy. All of the material around it calls it a condition of expectant fathers, ignoring those of us non-gestational parents who happen to be women. But whatever — I think I may have it. Of course, in my case it’s complicated by the [...]

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