Posts Written OnFebruary 2012

I have been thinking about birth a lot lately. It’s probably because I am about to give birth, and every time I try to look at the floor, I can’t see it because my belly is in the way. The computer I am typing on right now is balancing on my belly as well. I can feel Milam rolling around in my womb, punching my organs, and bringing on an uncomfortable but not painful tightness called Braxton Hicks contractions. Birth is all around me. Literally. All around my middle. But I woke up this morning wondering if birth was a…

Let me just state for the record: being pregnant and having a toddler is hard. More like HARD. More like I-am-not-sure-how-I-am-still-alive-right-now-HARD. And I know I am not alone in this sentiment. There have been many mothers before me and will be many after who lovingly and graciously endure this season of life. They drag themselves out of pregnant-comasleep to the sounds of am 18 month old ripping off her diaper and smearing its contents all over her crib at 2am. They look in the mirror and laughed as they carry a 20 month old in one arm, her babydoll collection…