tidal waves

weeks 29 & 30
Columbus, OH, Louisville, KY, and Destin, FL

Aug 31: 29 weeks. Size of a butternut Squash. And I get an Ohio chapter Baby Shower. I kind of failed Baby Registry Class because I was thinking like a New Yorker and assumed everyone would prefer to shop online. I registered for a cloth diaper service (gift certificates one click away!), at Target, and at Babies R Us (the website of which frustrated me to the point that there were only two items on that registry). So, when my guests actually drove to Babies R Us they were more than a little confused. Somehow, though, these friends and family transcended my poor registry skills, and I ended up with some powerfully cute stuff. People will really rally for New Life. It's kinda beautiful.

Sept 1: Some pictures from my shower yesterday. These are Grandma's gifts. There was a lot there, and she claims to have used restraint. She's very enthusiastic about her first grandbaby.   She started shopping the day I started menstruating.

ˈpreg-lə-jənt

Week 28, Astoria, NY and Reynoldsburg, OH

Aug 24:  28 weeks.  Fetus Froo Froo is the size of an eggplant.

Aug 25:  I arrive in my hometown, Columbus, Ohio.



Aug 26:  Pregligent  adjective  (ˈpreg-lə-jənt) A pregnant woman's failure to do the things that society and the internet tell her to do. (Eg.  1. Follow a registry check list.  2.  Use a pencil to check that shit off.  3.  Kegels.  Kegels in the car, kegels in bed, kegels in line at the grocery, Kegels! Kegles! Kegels! )   2. Doing the things the same forces tell her not to do.  (Eg.  1.  The consumption of "don't eats" such as hot dogs, goat cheese, brie, Subway club, spicy tuna rolls, fried eggs.  2.  The leaving in of one's naval ring, and failure to apply proper sunscreen of surrounding skin.  3. Contact sports.  4.  Clubbing.)  Middle English, from Anglo-French & Latin pregnant, preggo, pregay; Anglo-French, from Latin neglegent-, neglegens, present participle of neglegere.  First Known Use: Today.  preg-ne-gent-ly adverb.

I feel that something's come between us...

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week 27 astoria, ny

Aug 17:  Week 27.  Little Fetus Froo Froo is the size of a head of cauliflower.  Have you been int he produce section lately?  Check it out.  

As a normally cold-hands/cold-feet person, it is just plain strange that I throw off all the covers and turn the AC on.

Aug 18:  So grateful for every day in which I escape nausea.  When I was very sick during the first trimester, and staying at my parents' house, my mom was constantly monitoring my wellness.  Often I would simply report the last time I puked.  If I was dressed and on two feet, she was confident that I was okay and didn't have to ask.  Occasionally, I would be somewhere in between, without the words to describe how I felt.  --I hate to be without the right words.--  I felt too shaky to get out of bed (most days), and just on the verge of vomiting.  It feels like a small cloud of "queasy" stuck right in your craw... those are almost the right words, but not quite.  Eventually, I found the words for what that feels like, and I offer the phrase to you here, in hopes that you never have to use it.  The next time you might barf, but it's at least five minutes from happening, you can alert you loved ones by stating: "my gag is up."

Aug 19:  Midwife appointment #4.  That Glucose test can go to hell...