Goodnight Mom

This post was drafted a few weeks ago, in late January. Going into the final month of my pregnancy, I found it challenging at times to get excited about it, which I think is what people expect. It can be exciting. It can also be daunting and generally exhausting. I definitely was looking forward to no longer carrying around a heavy baby in my belly, and the aches and pains that came with that!  But getting excited about having a new baby was not as accessible.  A fun photo from our NYE party As we draw closer to meeting baby#2, some friends, and even Steve, have asked me what I’m excited about. I found this question particularly difficult to answer in this past month. It’s not that I’m not excited, but there has been so much else to think about that my ability to get into a place of excitement has been a challenge. At the start of the year, we grappled with the decision over our dog Porter’s end of life. Max had an exposure to COVID-19 again from a daycare buddy (thankfully, M...

A friend discovered she was pregnant and had the baby about a month later, close to full term. Another pregnant woman I met had said to me, "I don't believe any woman who says she didn't know she was pregnant." The thing is, everyone is different and pregnancy can feel different to each woman. I found out that I am not like the first friend, at all! I may not have looked pregnant my first trimester, but holy moly I felt it. I went through all the work of trying to conceive, and then I was rewarded with exhaustion and 24 hour nausea for a solid 6 weeks. But on the upside, I finally learned how to spell nausea correctly! Photo by  Yuris Alhumaydy  on  Unsplash "Morning Sickness" Whoever named this was clearly a man. Morning sickness is not reserved for the mornings. Let's rename this right here, right now. Pregnancy sickness. Pregnancy sickness can impact women anywhere from the first 12-13 weeks of pregnancy (the majority) right through to birth (...