These Small Hours
Little Wonders - Rob Thomas

A Lamaze Birth Plan for the Rest of Us
My hands smell like Dreft.  I am surrounded, on my bed, by a foreign sea of pink.  My belly periodically morphs into the shape of an almond, pointy end suggestively aiming toward the door…  Every ten minutes. All signs suggest that I am in latent labor, though these contractions may be uneventful Braxton Hicks.  No reason to split hairs, as I have an OB appointment this m

Icons and Inventory: I Can't Be Their Dooce to My Postpartum Depression
Did you notice that?  A flash.  A glimpse?  An unexpected swell. Olive is due within weeks, if not days.  All of my emotions have settled directly into my chest and occasionally push the breath right out of me.  When I least expect it, they flood upward, into my face.  They cloud my vision and fill my ears with a buzzing that drowns out everything else.  They aren’t always the offspring of hope and desire. Those moments make me afraid that I will present with postpartum depression after Olive is born.  That I will land myself the big fat PPD diagnosis.  Again. I have never writt

Time To Rest and Reflect.
The Type-A Mom Conference was wonderful.  It was exactly what I needed to invigorate my mind and settle my soul before the baby arrives.  This baby that has now attended three writing conferences.  What stories!  What support. But whew.  Am I tired. Stories to come. 

How to Get Pen Ink Out of a Microfiber Couch. Or How I'm Not a Type A Mom but I Play One in North Ca
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