Miss Lucy Q
Miss Lucy Quinn was born on January 20, 2012 at 2:14 am. She weighed nine pounds and two ounces. Her arrival was everything I had dreamt it would be. Filed under: Family, Parenting, Pregnancy Tagged:...
View ArticleAnd Then We Were Four: Part One
On Thursday morning at 9:45 I wrote on the Excitement on the Side facebook page. “is going out in to the world. Because nothing funny happens to you while you sit around on the birthing ball, not...
View ArticleAnd Then We Were Four: Part Two
I spoke with our doula, Erin, shortly after three in the afternoon. She told me that she had class at the Durham Tech campus not far from our house that evening. She planned on stopping by and checking...
View ArticleAnd Then We Were Four: Part Three
The final parts of Lucy’s birth story are likely best told as a series of pictures in my mind. Moments I thought I would never forget… my hazy memory of Emily’s birth tells a different story. I’ll...
View ArticleAnd Then We Were Four: Part Four
It was decided that I would stop trying to push through the last centimeter of my dilating, that I would stop and take a break, let my body finish doing the work. Then it was determined I should...
View ArticlePost Cards from the Edge
PostPartum Missives, maybe is a better title. Only because Postcards From the Edge has already been taken. I forgot a hundred things about being a new mom in the last six years. But I remembered one....
View ArticleIt takes one to know one.
I have had a dozen half written blog posts in my head for the last few days and little time to sit down and write them. As we fall in to a routine as a family, as I slowly return to my job and try to...
View ArticleThe Square Root of 49 is a PRIZE!!
Gee whiz!! You spill your guts on the internet and you get a prize, guys!! My birth story and my postpartum post had a zillion more page views than my ordinary posts (although perhaps it was the...
View ArticleMiss Lucy Q
Miss Lucy Quinn was born on January 20, 2012 at 2:14 am. She weighed nine pounds and two ounces. Her arrival was everything I had dreamt it would be. Filed under: Family, Parenting, Pregnancy Tagged:...
View ArticleAnd Then We Were Four: Part One
On Thursday morning at 9:45 I wrote on the Excitement on the Side facebook page. “is going out in to the world. Because nothing funny happens to you while you sit around on the birthing ball, not...
View ArticleAnd Then We Were Four: Part Two
I spoke with our doula, Erin, shortly after three in the afternoon. She told me that she had class at the Durham Tech campus not far from our house that evening. She planned on stopping by and checking...
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