Are Your Ready For Parenting?
Are you ready to be a parent? Take this reality test and find out! (provided by our Bradley instructor) Mess Test Smear peanut butter on the sofa and curtains. Now rub your hands in the wet flowerbed from outside and rub on the walls. Cover the stains with crayons. Repeat. Place a fish stick behind the couch and leave it there all summer. Toy Test Obtain a 55-gallon box of Legos (if Legos are not available, you may substitute roofing tacks or broken bottles.) Have a friend spread them all over the house. Put on a blindfold. Try to walk to the bathroom or kitchen. Do not scream. (This could...
Read MoreGender Ultrasound Quiz
Do you know how to tell boy bits from girl bits on an ultrasound image? Test yourself out with this quiz. I got all of them right. “Golden Arches” for girls and …well… boys are easy. Also, as a bit of political commentary: Hooray that this election will change history. Boo that Sarah Palin has such exterme views!
Read MoreLet’s Make Guacamole!
MMMM…my baby is the size of an avacado! That quarter is getting awfully small.
Read MoreI’m So Sorry
I need to publicly apologize to every woman who has ever been pregnant since the dawn of time. We have mocked you. DH and I. Relentlessly. What’s with the sweatpants? Why are you waddling? Stop touching your belly like it is precious! I’m sorry. I’m not waddling yet but I always thought it was just laziness that made pregnant women waddle. Now I know that your hips feel like they are an extra 10 inches apart and you have a log between your knees. I have to feel like I’m walking pigeon-toed to be walking normal! And your hips just hurt. They are...
Read MoreMy Developing Birth Plan
**I was thinking about turning off comments for this post so I don’t get any negative responses but decided I would miss all the good positive responses (if any). I don’t mind civil discourse but please refrain from telling me I’m nuts, k? thanks** In case you didn’t know I’m a research librarian. That means that I’ve already read every mainstream book on pregnancy and childbirth and I’m having to delve into obscure texts and scientific literature. Because of this I’m starting early on my birth plan and actually my birth philosophy. I keep...
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