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Wrapping up week 35 and I feel slightly (and I emphasize *slightly*) more patient about waiting for the impending arrival of our little nugget. A little nugget who is, as far as I estimate, not much of a little nugget anymore. Maybe more of a 35 lb. kid with really long legs who thinks is [...]

Three weeks since my last pregnancy update – geesh, I haven’t even birthed my child yet and already I feel like a bad parent. The past few weeks have had a few monumental moments.  We had a nurse at an OB check up who felt the need to blurt out my weight, despite the fact [...]

A quick trip to Target this weekend to buy a few new T-shirts that actually stretch over the entirety of my belly confirmed, yet again, that I’m only getting bigger at this point.  While I am sure this will be the mantra of the duration of my poor kid’s existence, I still must say that [...]

Despite the fact that we have had the nursery put together for months now, it seemed like a good time to share a picture of the theme we have decided to use for the room. (It was either that, or post the only pictures we have of me and the belly in my 29th week [...]

Tick tock. Tick tock. As much as the time has just been flying by since we first began this journey, I am just bursting at the seams to meet our little boy – literally and figuratively. This week was pretty big, as we went in for our last ultrasound, this one being the 3D/4D. Matt [...]

According to the weekly pregnancy updates I get via email, Benji is now about 14 or so inches long and weighing in at 2 lbs (the weight of a head of cauliflower). Trust me, I am feeling it. While I know I am only going to get bigger from this point forward, the little man [...]

I picked up What to Expect When You Are Expecting again (shelved it months ago when I got to the labor and delivery parts – seemed so far off it was nearly irrlevant). Ugh. Matt says I should stop reading the pregnancy books because they make me grumpy. It’s hard to swallow though – reading [...]

Getting married when you are almost 22 weeks along inevitably means straying from the path of wedding tradition. The bachlorette party is no exception. For me, there was no swinging from chandeliers or drinking a dozen mojitos with a falic looking straw. Instead, a girlfriend of mine who planned the event, appealing to my recent [...]

Matt took this picture on Monday, the day before our u/s, to immortalize the beginning of my 20th week. Not only does this mark, of course, the halfway point in the pregnancy, it also means that the wedding is only days away. Crazy. We officially switched OB/GYNs this week after meeting a great doctor in [...]