Kelly

March 10, 2010

  • Pregnancy Journal: Move Baby Move

    From 5 Minutes for Parenting

    By Kelly
    My OB laughs at me when I tell her this, but I’m pretty confident I’m gestating a baby octopus. (…)

March 3, 2010

February 24, 2010

February 17, 2010

  • Pregnacy Journal: Boxes of Memories

    From 5 Minutes for Parenting

    By Kelly
    Seven boxes of memories are stacked in the spare room right now, waiting for me to shed my coat of melancholy so I can sort through them. (…)

February 10, 2010

  • Pregnancy Journal: For the Love of Pregnancy

    From 5 Minutes for Parenting

    By Kelly
    I was talking on the phone to my sister last weekend, lamenting my falling-apart-disease and my advanced maternal age and my weariness with being pregnant in winter. (…)

February 3, 2010

  • Pregnancy Journal: I Am Falling Apart

    From 5 Minutes for Parenting

    By Kelly
    I am falling apart.
    I determined this last week when I heaved my aching, groaning self onto the couch, after a long day of single parenthood to 3.5 kids. (…)

January 27, 2010

January 20, 2010

  • Pregnancy Journal: One More Toddler

    From 5 Minutes for Parenting

    By Kelly
    There are few things as sweet as a two-year-old.
    There. I’ve said it.
    I know two is an exhausting age. (…)

January 13, 2010

January 6, 2010

  • Pregnancy Journal: Halfway

    From 5 Minutes for Parenting

    By Kelly
    I’m halfway there.
    No. Sorry. Let me rephrase.
    I’M HALFWAY THERE! WOO-HOO!
    Twenty weeks (almost 21) is a milestone for most of us preggos. (…)

December 23, 2009

  • Pregnancy Journal: What's Coming

    From 5 Minutes for Parenting

    By Kelly
    Today, I’m 19 weeks pregnant. I think.
    Hang on. Let me check my online pregnancy calendar.
    (Insert cheesy hold music here.)
    OK. I’m back. (…)

December 16, 2009

  • Pregnancy Journal: Need to Know

    From 5 Minutes for Parenting

    By Kelly
    I haven’t confirmed this scientifically, but I’m convinced there are two kinds of people in this world: Those who can wait until the birth of their baby to find out the sex, and those who must know the minute it’s physically possible. (…)

December 9, 2009

  • Pregnancy Journal: The Box

    From 5 Minutes for Parenting

    By Kelly
    I was sitting in my toddler’s room last night, surfing the Internet and waiting for her to go to sleep, when I heard the faint toot of a horn. (…)

December 2, 2009

  • Pregnancy Journal: Movement

    From 5 Minutes for Parenting

    By Kelly
    I felt the baby move last week.
    I was laying in the dark, waiting for sleep to descend, when I felt little flutters way, way, WAY down in my abdomen. (…)

November 25, 2009

November 18, 2009

  • Pregnancy Journal: The Spinach Can Wait

    From 5 Minutes for Parenting

    By Kelly
    I remember my first pregnancy so vividly.
    I remember being snarly and sick and wanting to die, TO DIE, during the first trimester. (…)

November 11, 2009

  • Pregnancy Journal: Milestone

    By Kelly
    I’m 13 weeks pregnant today.
    Depending on which pregnancy book you read, I’m either at the tail end of the first trimester or on the cusp of the blessed second. (…)

November 4, 2009

  • Pregnancy Journal: The Heartbeat

    By Kelly
    I still remember the first time I heard my baby’s heartbeat.
    It was January 5, 2001. I was sick and miserable. I had never been sure I even wanted children. (…)

October 28, 2009

  • Pregnancy Journal: Baby Bump

    By Kelly
    So I’m finally hitting the 12 week mark with this pregnancy, and the first trimester fog is starting to lift, thanks in part to the miracle combo of Unisom-B6.
    And I’m already showing. (…)

October 21, 2009

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