Lessons in Motherhood

Everyone has told me that the second trimester is the best! Your nausea stops, you’re less tired, and you’re not huge yet. I’ve really been looking forward to it, and on Wednesday, I finally got there – thirteen weeks..yippeee! The most exciting part is that I’m now capable of being hungry without [...]

I’ve decided to take another painting class during my pregnancy. Although laying on the couch every evening and whining about how tired I am is fairly fulfilling, dedicating one night a week to painting shouldn’t be too much to ask. If I paint anything exciting, I’ll post a picture of it, but chances [...]

Yesterday I purchased the Bella Belt. As I mentioned in my last post, it is supposed to hold your pants up and disguise the fact that you have them unbuttoned. Well, it works. It looks just like a tube top, but you pull it over the top of your pants to cover [...]

Yesterday was our first official visit to the midwives at Vanderbilt. Our primary midwife is named Shelly, although she may not be the one to deliver me. It will just depend on the timing. During the visit, we were able to hear the baby’s heartbeat for the first time which was extremely [...]

My concern over my maternity clothes (or lack thereof) has been growing over the past few weeks. I know that it is completely inevitable that I will eventually have to make that all important first maternity clothes purchase, but I’m all about procrastinating on that type of major life/size change. Besides, I can [...]

It’s the 2nd day of January, and it’s 70 degree’s in Nashville today. Nothing like a little indian summer to really make you crave the spring time. It was nice to get a few outside chores done, but come on…it’s January. Later this week it’s supposed to “flurry” so I guess [...]

I’m 11 weeks pregnant now, and the baby books says that my fetus is approximately 2 inches long. Yes, 2 inches. It seems so insignificant, and yet my body has spent the last nine weeks growing and nurturing this tiny little thing! Just a few weeks ago, at our first ultrasound, it [...]