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Yesterday, I hit 23 weeks pregnant. Just over halfway. For most of that 23 weeks, I’ve been suffering from the excessive nausea and vomiting that goes along with Hyperemesis Gravidarum, or HG. It doesn’t feel possible that I’m only half way through. It feels like this pregnancy has lasted forever. This has easily been […]
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An old friend of mine just sent a link around to this MotherStyles quiz and I found it really interesting. It’s a Myers-Briggs type quiz analyzing your mothering/parenting style. Turns out I’m an INTP mom, or a “Love of Learning” mom, who excels at calmness, and fostering independence and love of learning, but struggles with routine […]
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I am a huge fan of Victoria’s Secrets Soft & Sexy Wrap. It’s not marketed for maternity and nursing wear, but that’s what so special about it. It’s a good wardrobe investment that you can wear for years to come. I’m 17 weeks pregnant and it fits great and is cute, I expect I can […]
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I’m currently in my 16th week of my second pregnancy. With my first child, I was nauseous during the first trimester, but hadn’t thrown up at all. I wasn’t surprised to find a few weeks in that I was getting nauseous this time around. I wasn’t even surprised the first few times I threw up, […]
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As the gift-giving season approaches, I thought I’d list a couple of my favorite sites for browsing for gifts, (apart from the various Amazon country sites, of course).
The MoMA Store - This is the shop for the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. As you can imagine, the focus here is on design. There are beautiful […]
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As Christmas approaches, I know we’re all wondering what to get for the little ones in our lives. For some ideas, here are the German BVS, Bundesverband des Spielwaren-Einzelhandels (Federal Association of Toy Retailers) top ten toys of 2009. They’re not all available outside of Germany, but most are. Have fun!
36 Cube by Thinkfun - a puzzle […]
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With economic times being tough, I had been thinking about putting together a post on what baby/kid items are needed and which we can do without, but it was such a huge task, that I never got around to writing it. So I’ve decided to make it a series and go one item at a time.
As […]
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I’ve got back problems, and it was always a pain, literally, to hold my son over the sink to brush his teeth and wash his face and hands. In the beginning, I used a wash cloth to clean him off and just picked him up to let him spit out the toothpaste, but the older […]
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My 2 year old son Oliver eats just about everything. The other day, Janda and I had lunch at Aran here in Regensburg, and Oliver had fresh German whole grain bread spread half with tomato-garlic spread and the other half with a tuna-artichoke mix. He’s eaten caviar, blood sausage, raw onion, boiled beef with horseradish, […]
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I figure I’m a little unusual in the modern, western world. At 25 months, my son Oliver is still breastfeeding, and last weekend was our first extended separation since his birth.
I’ve left Oliver for a few hours before, even for almost a full day, but he’s never spent a night without me. I was a little […]
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