Lessons in Motherhood

Tuesday was my 24 week checkup with the midwife. She says that Hailey is doing fine and has a good heartbeat. Unfortunately, Mommy (that’d be me) has put on 9lbs since my last visit 4 weeks ago!! I was so surprised when she said this that I didn’t know how to respond. [...]

Let me start out by saying that I have always been one of the incredibly fortunate few who has never had back problems. Shoulder problem, of course, but that doesn’t count. A few months ago I noticed that my back would get really sore from time to time; conveniently enough, this usually occurred [...]

I’m learning an interesting (although dangerous) lesson. Pregnant women are allowed to be a bit selfish about everything from food portions to weekend plans. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that I’m unfairly using my “condition” to my advantage. How can I explain this without making it sound like Luke deserves [...]

Here is a picture of the pregnant belly at 22 weeks. As you might expect, Luke deserves the credit for artfully taking and editing this picture. I look like I’m leaning back to emphasize the belly, but I was just trying to stand up straight. I think that says something about either [...]

If you’re like me (and hopefully you’re not), you’ve often found yourself watching pregnant women waddling around the grocery store or the mall or wherever and found yourself wondering, “what is it about a big belly that makes people waddle.” You may have also noticed that big, fat men with bellies larger than some [...]

Today is the second day of Week 22. According to my baby book, Hailey’s arms and legs are moving with noticeably more force now as the muscles strengthen and the bones become stronger. I’m still not feeling her too regularly, but I’ve been pretty busy lately so I might not be noticing her. [...]

First of all, it’s official…I can no longer fit in any of my pre-maternity pants. Up until today, I was able to squeeze myself into one last pair of grey work pants that I owned (don’t ask me why I owned them because they were 2 sizes to big on me before I got [...]

After much review and debate, we’ve decided on Hailey Marie Hamilton.
Hailey’s grandmother, step-grandpa, and grandpa are all coming in and out of town over the next 5 days so I apologize if the blog frequency suffers. I’ll try to get another belly shot up as soon as it seems worthwhile. The belly [...]

Isn’t this the cutest baby foot that you’ve ever seen! Just thought I’d share another ultrasound shot. There’s also a 16 minute video of the whole experience, but even a proud Mommy thinks that’s a little much. In other exciting news, I bought my stroller last night for half off [...]

If you haven’t guessed already, it’s a girl!!!!
Haley is about 10″ long according to the ultrasound. She’s got adorable little feet that we could see very clearly. I’ve got a good picture of that. We also were able to see her heart, brain, spinal cord, kidneys, bladder, arms, and girl parts [...]