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    When You Ask Us If We'll Have {more} Kids

    October 22, 2019 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

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    Will's Birth Story (part 2)

    November 15, 2018 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

    read part 1 of will's birth story here. 

    One of the things I was most looking forward to when we had Will was Beck meeting him for the first time. Our night in the birth center was short and sweet-ish but exhausting, so we packed up early and came home. Since Will was born before 10pm we could have stayed all night (usually you stay 6-8 hours after birth as long as everything is OK), but as long as you're in the care of the nurses you have to have vitals done every 2 hours. AND, because vitals take awhile they start them at the 90 minute mark, which means we got about 85-minute stretches of sleep. Jay snored loudly during this time (he is currently shaking his head as if I lie about this all the time), I stared at Will and contemplated things that were achy or burny, and Will snorted as if competing with his father. 

    Our vitals came back normal each time, so at 4am I got antsy and asked if we could go home since I was hardly sleeping. We put Will in his first-ever little outfit (that I got on my last solo trip to NYC at the Monica and Andy store, and I adore it so much because the trip was so much fun), I slowly got dressed in my super stretchy going-home outfit, and we buckled Will into his car seat, one of the only new things we got for him. We drove home slowly and carefully, chatting about the night and what we wanted to do for our first day as a family of four (I mentioned donuts several times, and no one has procured me a donut at nearly 2 weeks postpartum), and got home around 5:30am. 

    At this point we dropped Will in the Uppababy Vista bassinet we had carefully set up by our bed, slept for three straight hours, just the three of us, and it was the last time I slept for three hours straight. No joke. 

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    Will's Birth Story (part 1)

    November 8, 2018 by Lindsay 3 Comments

    Today is my due date. This feels so similar to three years ago when I wrote about Beck barging out of my body and into the world. It's all the same and all different, all the feelings, none of the sleep or time to process them, big life changes, all of it. 

    So. Last week. On Wednesday we had our 39 week appointment and the midwife we saw didn't have a ton to say besides that everything looked fine and she didn't think she'd see us for our 40 week appointment. She had no reason to say this since there weren't any actual signs that I'd go into labor and our providers don't do cervical checks (since dilating or not isn't an indication of when you'll actually go into labor), so I was half encouraged/half "you don't know anything," which is my preferred feeling around the end of pregnancy. No one knows when it'll happen or how it'll go and this makes things very hard for me on an emotional level. 

    Spoiler alert, Will was born at 39 weeks and one day exactly like his sister, so ... I kind of knew what was going on. ...

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    Pregnancy #2: In Our Hospital Bag

    October 25, 2018 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

    Since we didn't exactly pack for the birth center last time until I was in labor, I got all up in my planning and decided that, ok, let's do all the laundry and pack things so that we aren't scrambling and forgetting things. 

    So we did. But I probably still forgot some things. 

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    Pregnancy #2: Pictures.

    October 22, 2018 by Lindsay 1 Comment

    We have entered the phase of pregnancy where every night before bed I do a thing or two that I'd REALLY want done should I go into labor right now. 

    This is useful in terms of productivity and annoying because I have a literal month before anyone will talk about inducing without serious begging on my part, and I'm not going to do that. I'm just internally begging my uterus to start the eviction process, already. The days definitely feel like they're slowing as we near the finish line, or with every day that passes the finish line moves farther away? I'm not sure. 

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