Entertaining reading, I must say.

I picked this up in Hawaii about 5 years ago. Its currently out of print and was being discarded.
Lots of interesting stuff. Lemme know if you want to sit down and look at it sometime. It makes the whole process of pregnancy very scary, especially if you are not a white person. When you look at it you will see what I mean.
Check out the first copyright. 1902? And the last is 1964. 62 years of progress documented right here in this book.
There are quite a few pictures like this one, and they call the babies monsters. This was the only one I could bear to post up. Maybe I will get more brave later.
I have been told by my birth attendant, or 'doula', if you will, not to look at myself in the nether regions after birth for awhile. This picture is the first stage of the head getting ready to come out. I am sure you can imagine all the other stages. Need I say more?
And finally, this is my husbands newborn photo that I wanted to share. Cute, isn't he?

Latest purchases.

Being pregnant can be expensive. And weird. I was getting ready to take a shower the other day and I noticed one of my boobs was leaking. WTF?
This has totally thrown me off. I now have to wear an official nursing bra. And the lady at the store told me that once the baby comes, I am going to want to sleep in one as well. I am going to want to sleep in one? Wow.
Pregnancy and birth and babies is so... sexy?
Do you see the size on those puppies?
I mean, I know there are women out there who are much bigger... but I am not a big girl. Just average, maybe on the smaller side of average. I never imagined I would wear an E cup.

Getting fatter...

My mother has left and I swear, just from the stress, I grew, like, 3 sizes bigger. No joke.

Here she comes.

My mother.
Arriving on Wednesday, leaving the following Tuesday.
There are stories. Just look at the picture. You could probably make one up yourself.
I will post more photos after she leaves. I am sure there will be some winners.
Its weird being on my way to motherhood, and not wanting my mother to be involved all that much. My aunt said her daughter (my cousin) wouldn't let her come out when her baby was born. She brought the baby out to see her 3 months later. I totally understand that. Besides, my mom lives in Hawaii so it will be awesome when the baby is a few months old to be able to go and sit on the beach and swim in the ocean, don't you think?

If you're a dude...

...Don't ever ask a woman who is pregnant 'what' she is doing for the preparation of the baby to come.

If you're a dude, you have no idea what she is doing. She is doing stuff you can't see, as well as stuff that you can see. She is busy being overwhelmed with hormones, emotions, tasks that need doing, and a nesting instinct so strong it keeps her up at night. Oh, and so soes the little one in her belly. She also gives up any right to her body whatsoever, turning it over to hemorrhoids, spider veins, swollen body parts, heartburn, constipation, insatiable hunger, chronic shooting pain in parts of her body where she has never felt pain before, big, sore boobs, skin irritations, goddamn the list goes on. And some of these things happen all at once. Imagine that.

She is also 10 times more tired than you are, no matter what you do, and she won't tell you that because that is just part of building a baby inside of her body.

If you are a woman who is pregnant or has been pregnant I give you a GIANT high-five, and if I know you and you contact me, I will buy you a milkshake or a banana split just because. Just because. Just because.