From the category archives:
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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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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I find myself 41 weeks and 1 day pregnant today. As Delene was born 11 days after her due date, I had made up my mind since the very beginning of this pregnancy that this baby was going to be late too. I told everyone that too. I wanted to save myself the hard realization […]
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Congratulations to Tiffany and Stefan, and welcome to the world Mackenzie! Tiffany, a Texas-born expat living in Germany, recently gave birth to her first child without drugs using the HypnoBabies method of self-hypnosis. She writes a nice summary and review of the Hypnobabies program, which worked very well for her, on her site No Ordinary Homestead.
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Now that I am finally an “International Mama,” and not just a soon-to-be-mama, I finally feel qualified to add my 2 cents to the blog! Our girl arrived almost five weeks ago and is already wondering where her sausage and beer are (or at least, that’s how I interpret her crying).
Having never been pregnant before, […]
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Since I haven’t had the chance to try any products with the baby yet, I thought I would mention one product I have used in the pregnancy that I love. A friend recommended Clarins Huile Tonic early on. It is 100% plant olis, and is supposed to help prevent stretch marks. There is no science […]
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