14 weeks with Olivia: Hello second trimester!

Sometimes I can’t believe I really made it out of the first trimester alive. Just for the sheer terror of miscarrying alone. I’m definitely not naive enough to think I’m still guaranteed a baby. I’m very well versed in things that can go catastrophically wrong. I know too many women…

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13 weeks with Olivia: You down with RLP? Yeah you know me!

Naughty by Nature? Circa 1991? Anyone? Whatever. It’s totally in my head. And don’t think I haven’t tried changing the lyrics to OPP to match RLP. It wasn’t working. Feel free to take a moment and dance along to the video. I already did. Anyway, it appears that I have…

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12 weeks with Olivia: Gas bubble or baby?

So for real. Last night, I’m sitting downstairs on the reclining chair and and I suddenly felt this bubbly sensation in my lower left abdomen. Like, bubble. bubble. bubble. bubble. And my eyes got wide and I froze. Baby? Or gas bubble? After some texts and Googling, determining I was…

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Almost done with the first trimester

I’m almost to twelve weeks, you guys. I’m almost to the second trimester. I mean, I’m in complete disbelief that this is actually happening to me. I’m slowly starting to feel a little better about this pregnancy. Now, instead of taking things day by day and being terrified that I…

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11 weeks with Olivia: We heard a heartbeat

I was wondering how this ultrasound was going to go being that it was neither at my fertility clinic, nor my OB. (Did I do that neither/nor thing right?) Since the fertility clinic here where I was being satellite monitored for Houston kicked me out*, I was concerned about how…

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