le sigh.

it’s a sweltering saturday afternoon, pushing 100 degrees, and i am nauseated and lounging in bed and tempted to get all nekked. we’ll see.
sparky is very active today, after being eerily quiet yesterday. i even had some contraband iced tea to see if that would stir her. it didn’t. she only [...]

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status quo.

happy wednesday, friends. mrs bluemont stopped by to request an update, so i thought i’d oblige, especially since i want to encourage calm pregnancy thoughts for her, instead of worrying about poor little ol me.
so. as of today (37w3d) sparky has not quite decided to join us yet. saturday’s false start inspired [...]

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nope

turns out i didn’t leak amniotic fluid. i guess it was copious watery discharge. mmmm. still contracting a bit but i get to take the pump off my nips. i’m about 75% effaced and -2 station, so a lot of progress has happened today. i’m 1.5 cm dilated. i got [...]

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hmm [updated]

having contractions pretty close together for the past hour. h checked me, and estimated i’m 2-3 cm dilated. wonder if this is the real thing or if they will fizzle out again?
i mopped the house today. hands and knees bathroom scrubbed. contractions began when i took a bath afterward.
hmm.
7:30 pm [...]

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36w5d

nothing new to report from here. sparky is still holed up in the womb, crampiness and sporadic contractions remain the same. we’re making nachos for dinner tonight. and here are some belly shots.
frontal, and missing half my head, appropriately:

the usual pose

as always, the full belly gallery can be viewed at your leisure [...]

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progress, uninterrupted.

as it turns out, i am still 1 cm dilated. (h even got the official tutorial on how to check my cervix in the comfort of our own home. it was a bit weird to have her all up in my biz in front of midwives.) i am also 50% effaced. [...]

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work in progress.

as i write this, h is finishing up the painting of our bedroom. next is sparky’s nursery. we are hoping to get everything done before she makes her arrival, but in the meantime, we’ve got a rough setup to keep some semblance of sanity should she come say, this weekend.
here are some pics [...]

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peace to them.

so i just read this story on the cnn front page. most of you will probably not be familiar with this man and his family, but i spent a long time working for his record company. he is a good man, who has dedicated his life to really living jesus’ message of loving [...]

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of note.

i’m sitting crosslegged at a coffeeshop downtown, as h is having her first teacher interview. we’ve just come from our lawyer’s office, where we signed our wills, and thus are as married as we can be in the great state of texass. we made out in the elevator to celebrate.
sparky is [...]

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good girl.

my sweet little spark has stayed put. whew. we are now clear to give birth at home.
i have no idea when she will arrive, really. but i can tell you that i have constant crampiness in my lower back, most of my braxton hicks contractions are in my lower abdomen, [...]

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