hippie stuff

November 30, 2012

Ruby Lee’s birth. The conclusion.

I vomited for a solid 8 hours after surgery, which wasn’t really in the birth plan. But that night I was up and moving and felt ok…all things considered. You have like the worst period after a c-section of your life for weeks. I waddled to the bathroom with a nurse holding a dog pee [...]

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November 18, 2012

Moving forward.

So here we are. This week has been the most emotionally trying week I can remember. I’ve moved all across the board from emotional acceptance, to complete disgust, to distrust of everyone around me, to small bits of peace. And here we are, the day before surgery. I have to admit, sometimes ignorance really is [...]

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November 15, 2012

The hand we’ve been dealt and the struggle to accept it.

This will be a very difficult post for me to write. Because when I put it down in words, it’s real. You may have noticed that Wednesday afternoon, I closed the comments on the last post. It wasn’t because there were offensive comments or any problem at all. It was because your comments were so [...]

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November 14, 2012

Sure, I’ll walk you through my week of crazy. What else do I have to do at 4am?

It’s 4am. East coast time. A time where no one should be awake that doesn’t have a screaming baby or a screaming uterus. I have neither so far. Because I’m tricky, you probably think I’m all zen about this whole birth thing now. You know, with that last touching baby letter that I wrote and [...]

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November 7, 2012

I say “vag” 30 times in this post and “Olsen twin” 4 times. Also I mspainted private parts. You’re warned.

I definitely took for granted last time that I didn’t have to go through the waitandsee bullshit of pregnancy. My water broke early and we were off. No, I don’t want that again, but this waiting and seeing is nonsense. So today I had a midwife appointment and I let her “check me”. I originally [...]

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