Photo by Kalimba Bennett So last week I hit the pregnancy wall. I can’t sleep, I can’t get up w/o a lot of effort. My knees hurt when I walk, my back hurts when I walk or sit. Sitting for too long is uncomfortable, lying down w/o propping my head up properly has led to [...]

So the one pregnancy symptom I had hoped to avoid happened yesterday. After 3 hours of sitting and writing on our back office futon, which doesn’t allow my feet to touch the ground, when I walked downstairs to join my husband for Heroes, I found that my feet were swollen. I complained as I usually [...]

So I’ve never been the type of woman that could wear high heels all day. Pumps … only if I won’t be doing a ton of standing. Wedges, though, are awesome and I used to wear them into the ground. However, I made an awful discovery when I slipped on my sister’s black wedge boots [...]

When I first started reading this Jezebel post about a new study, which supposedly disproved “preg head” or “pregnancy brain” or more simply becoming more fuzzy head while pregnant, I said “Bullshit.” Seriously, I said it out loud while reading the story in bed on my iPhone. I’ve had to start keeping a daily “To [...]

So I had  really lovely plans about what kind of pregnant person I would be. First of all, I wouldn’t get sick or have pregnancy symptoms, b/c I rarely get sick and never have symptoms of anything. In fact, I got through 6 months in China with only one bout of food poisoning, which is [...]

So I’ve been told that a lot of mothers-to-be instinctively know whether they’re carrying a boy or a girl. My best friend Monique insisted that she was carrying a boy despite her husband, mother, and me thinking otherwise. Then a few months later, lo and behold, it’s a boy. Supposedly the mother’s instincts are right [...]

I don’t want to complain any more than I already have about my first trimester of pregnancy. But alas I fear that it’s in my very core nature. I’ve mentioned before that I’m a terrible sick person, which is why I think I rarely get sick — being a kind deity, perhaps God wanted to [...]

As I’ve said before, IVF pregnancies are a little different. From what I can see, women tend to either be a lot more secretive or a lot more forthcoming about them. I’ve chosen forthcoming. I wish that more women would. And I would love for stars like J.Lo, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman (all rumored IVF [...]

Good news! Good news! On Friday night the 24/7 morning sickness broke and basically settled for just coming on in waves throughout the day. This doesn’t sound as awesome as it is, but believe me when I say that compared to 24/7 nausea, it totally is. I’m grateful for three things: 1. Ginger gum: which [...]

Thanks so much to everybody who weighed in on morning sickness cures yesterday. The main suggestion was ginger and time (which seemed like a call for patience if you read between the lines). Well, as we all know, I’m not great with the p-stuff, but CH did bring home an assortment of ginger items last [...]