In the Beginning, Part 5: Homecoming

A. came home on May 17th 2008, 10 days after his due date. I guess we were still afraid to get excited and believe that we were really going to bring him home one day, because when they told us on May 16th that he’d be coming home the next day, we were totally unprepared. [...]

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In the Beginning, Part 4: NICU Story

I feel really nervous sitting down to write this. I want to write it all out so that I can anchor myself in the present as I plan A.’s first birthday. This is the first time I saw my son, standing. I was totally drugged on magnesium for the first day and a half after [...]

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In the Beginning, Part 3: Birth Story

It’s been 10 months since A. was born on February 9th 2008, and it is still hard to sit and write out his birth story. But here I go. I don’t expect that this will be especially well written. On Saturday the 9th, my mom and uncle came down to Seattle to visit me and [...]

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In the Beginning, Part 2: Pregnancy Story

I. Examining The Pregnant Body I look at this picture and still can’t believe that’s my belly. The third trimester must be when pregnant women get to really “feel” pregnant and get used to their new identity. I wouldn’t know, because I didn’t have a third trimester. I had always thought I would make a [...]

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In the Beginning, Part 1: Conception Story

From the very beginning our babymaking story wasn’t the one I had seen repeated in movies, TV shows, books, friends’ lives.  Collectively, these stories fused into a myth; I think we all know it:  Woman and Man have sex (presumably wild). Next month, woman runs from her desk job to vomit. Surprised but excited when [...]

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