Category: Pregnancy

  • 26 Weeks Belly Time

    26 Weeks Belly Time

    So Operation PeePee has been put into full effect the last few weeks. Norma is literally peeing about every 30 minutes when she’s awake and a good 3 to 4 times during the night.  If we drive anywhere – we’re basically going from bathroom to bathroom.  I guess those little chitlins are growing so much…

  • Happy Pregnant 4th of July!

    Happy Pregnant 4th of July!

    What’s a more appropriate picture for today’s celebration of Indenpendence Day than a pose of lady liberty with a flag in the background? Okay so the dress is brown instead of green, she’s missing her tiara and torch, but Frederic Bartholdi would be proud to use Norma as a model for a 2008 version of his…

  • Pre-Term Labor (Update)

    Pre-Term Labor (Update)

    We’re back home now from the hospital and Norma is doing a lot better after our little scare. The shot to stop the contractions has been working very well and the overnight stay waylaid our fears that everything is checking out ok. The doctor checked Norma’s cervix and it he didn’t see any thinning or…

  • Pre-Term Labor

    Pre-Term Labor

    Right after the worrisome OB visit on Friday – Saturday and Sunday’s days of bed(sofa)rest were supposed to slow down any ripening of the cervix and slow down the funneling that was present in the ultrasound.  Needless to say – a picture says a thousand words and once Sunday came around – Norma started to have…

  • 1001 Baby Names!!

    1001 Baby Names!!

    Its baby naming time. YAY! After much discussion, bartering, compromising and researching, our crackpot super-scientific method for naming our sons came down to the tried and true -Momma picks the first names, Daddy picks the middle names.  But to focus our choices we had some guidelines we agreed to: – Names must have meaning, bliblically…