How your baby’s growing: Your baby has really plumped up. He weighs between 6 and 7 1/2 pounds (boys tend to be slightly heavier than girls), and she’s nearly 20 inches long. He has a firm grasp, which you’ll soon be able to test when you hold his hand for the first time! His organs […]

Anyone want to share some good recipes for meals that you prepare and freeze before giving birth? I’d like to spend the next week cooking, but outside of chili and spaghetti sauce, I have no idea what to cook! I’m a vegetarian, but I think it’d be fun to share some ideas!

I’ve got 18 days until my EDD, and things finally seem to be coming together. The day after tomorrow we’ll be moving into our new apartment in Halifax. We brought up our first load of belongings over the weekend, and went shopping for some household stuff that we need (cleaners, a mirror, a […]

How your baby’s growing: Congratulations — your baby is full term! This means that if your baby arrives now, his lungs should be fully mature and ready to adjust to life outside the womb, even though your due date is still three weeks away.
Your baby weighs a little over 6 pounds and measures between 19 […]

Checkup today went well. Finally met with a doctor that I like more. He’s a man, and the father of a girl I didn’t really enjoy in high school, but he was happy, informative and although I felt a bit rushed, it was the best appointment I’ve had since moving to NS.
[Let me just mention […]

How your baby’s growing: Your baby is still packing on the pounds — at the rate of about an ounce a day. He now weighs almost 6 pounds and is a little under 19 inches long. He’s shedding most of the downy covering of hair that covered his body as well as the vernix caseosa, […]

Bah! I’m so frustrated with the doctors that I’ve met with since arriving in Nova Scotia. Their quality of care is so far under the care we received from our Ontario midwives, I can hardly believe it.
I don’t think I mentioned that when I was saying goodbye to my main midwife before we left, […]

At one point I found the baby’s kicks annoying. I have actually walked around my old workplace in order to get him to go to sleep so that I wouldn’t have to feel the punch-punch-kick-kick movements. I felt guilty, of course, because it’s never too early for momguilt, but sometimes I just wanted to […]


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