Tag Archives: first pregnancy

Planning a Pregnancy: Advice for Aspiring Moms

Tips for planning a family.

50 Things to Love about Life: Rain

Part of the reason I decided to revisit a six-year-plus blog series was to take a look at who I…

50 Things to Love about Life: An Update

In early 2008, I was 50 days away from the due date of my first child, a little girl to…

Tips on Handling Morning Sickness

Whether it’s your very first pregnancy, or your fifth, morning sickness is always a possibility. It’s frustrating and  troublesome, to…

What You Don’t Expect While Delivering

Having my first baby had its share of surprises along the way. My son’s birth was two months ago, it…

Memoir Monday: Pretty in Pink

Figuring out where I should live after giving birth to my 18+-year roommate was becoming a drag. I was a…

Breech Baby? Not So Fast…

So much can change in a week, and then again… We had our 37 week ultrasound about ten days ago,…

The Pains of the Third Trimester

I successfully made it to the 9th month of pregnancy! Or in proper pre-natal terms, 36 weeks (I think they want…

Tales of a Pre-Term Laborer

Life never seems to let us down in the surprise department, good bad or otherwise. Just a couple of weeks after…

Ultrasound Surprise: It’s a What? Are You Sure?

  Baby Benson! Let me start by saying what is known. It always needs to be said for some reason: I…