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Pregnancy

Dear Rookie Moms, I need help with maternity clothes shopping

January 22, 2010

Hi there readers, we have another friend and reader email to share. This is what Jenny really said and what I told her. Sound off in the comments with your best tips and advice for maternity clothes shopping. Dear Rookie Moms, I know I should read the blog from beginning to end, but in the [...]

Celebrity moms: They’re not just like us

November 25, 2009

Pregnancy Guide – The Real Deal

April 4, 2008

Once upon a time, I had a job as a copy editor and I lasted about six weeks. From my first day, I felt it wasn’t the right job for me, and I cried on the phone to my previous boss. I forced myself to stay six weeks, and then I gave my two week-notice. [...]

Food prep for the soon-to-be mom-of-3

February 14, 2008

My old former roommate Marla has two daughters, age 3 and 4 and a new baby expected within the next couple weeks. Her sisters-in-law (one with three kids and the other with twin one-year-olds) knew exactly what she needed in lieu of a baby shower: food for the freezer! Jen and Julie combined a few [...]

Compact baby gift, anyone?

January 26, 2008

Sisters unite. Help me think of the perfect non-new gift for my sister-in-law’s new baby. She’s due in about a week. My compact month starts in about a week and I don’t want to go in cheating. A few things to know about my sister-in-law: Her name is also Heather She hates used stuff She [...]

The Rookie Mom’s Dictionary – Entry #1: Postpartum pudding and hip-hop diapers

October 3, 2007

Every year it’s fun to hear what gets added to the Oxford English Dictionary. Examples from this year: aerobicized or aerobicised adj. (of a person’s body) toned by aerobic exercise: aerobicized Hollywood women. crunk n. a type of hip-hop or rap music characterized by repeated shouted catchphrases and elements typical of electronic dance music, such [...]

VBAC: I consent to let this baby come out

September 3, 2007

I was just going through some papers sitting on our kitchen counter for the past two months (ok, who am I kidding– six months) and came across a packet of documents we brought home from the hospital. Within the many papers of useless information is a form that I apparently signed during labor. It is [...]

Open letter to Mimi Maternity

July 27, 2007

Dear People Who Make Decisions About Customer Experiences at Mimi Maternity, It does not go unnoticed by me that at Mimi Maternity stores (and I have been to many throughout California over the course of two pregnancies) the sales people are not mothers, but rather young women who have never been pregnant. As such, they [...]

VBAC – The aftermath

July 12, 2007

Hi. I am here. I am reading, I am just not writing. I just had a baby, you see. Eight days ago. I am not fit to blog right now. I am probably injuring myself just sitting in this computer chair. My sitting parts hurt. A lot. Second baby, but first time out the chute [...]

Do you feel anything happening?

July 6, 2007

I am 39 weeks pregnant, due tomorrow, and just as anxious as you people to have this baby exit my body. In fact, more anxious. It is MY baby and MY body, so if you think I’m staying pregnant just to inconvenience you, or delay your meeting of my daughter, you are oh so wrong. [...]

Finding the fun in bedrest

July 4, 2007

A colleague of mine told me that his wife is on bed rest and she’s only 21 weeks. Yikes. It got me to wondering about the fun you can have when you’re bed bound and I wanted to tap into the collective experience of the Internets. I imagine that would want to mix it up [...]

Dear Whitney, Prepping for baby #2

May 28, 2007

Hiya pal, When I was pregnant with baby #2, I managed to get through the first six months in denial that anything was really going to change in my life. I figure it’s sort of (Mother) Nature’s way. Sometime during that icky third trimester, I began to realize that someone new and helpless was going [...]

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