Author: Pansy

I have stuff I want to blog about, but it is hard to type with one hand and hold baby with the other. So if I get a free hand, I have a few blogs coming up…

We are home. I stayed at my mother’s a few days and babymooned and I am home now. Like Peony mentioned, we had an Election Day baby. The name we picked was Dominic Jose. Dominic after St. Dominic and Jose after St.Joseph and my husband’s grandfather. He is doing very well, nurses like a trooper… Continue reading Happy Baby Stuff

Tomorrow they are going to break my water. I am cool with that though because the midwife does not think I will need pitocin-just my water broken. My doctor went out of the way to do an ultrasound today so I can have a waterbirth. Apparently insulin dependant Moms are not supposed to have waterbirths,… Continue reading 40 Weeks!

I have never made it this far! I don’t know whether to feel proud or to be miserable because I’m still pregnant and think I will be for the rest of my life. In the meantime, thank you all for the input on boy’s names. There were some awesome names suggested and we have picked… Continue reading 39 Weeks!

They were false alarm contractions. I think I am going to be pregnant forever… Next time I have contractions, maybe I should tell no one.

because I have had a number of contractions this evening and Polo wants us close to the hospital. I hope I do not get everyone worked up for another false alarm. But let me talk about something really important before I go. We bought the Star Wars Trilogy on DVD set and finally got around… Continue reading So I am going to my mother’s

I had another level II ultrasound on Monday, and the baby is a peanut. He weighed in at 6 pounds and 11 ounces at 37 weeks and a day. I am of course concerned because he is by far the smallest of my children and I know gestational diabetes can cause babies to be malnourished… Continue reading The Peanut