From 5 Minutes for Parenting By Kelly Can you help me with a scenario? See, I have this really good friend who’s pregnant with her fourth baby. For all her other babies, she’s paid to have a second ultrasound, in addition to the ultrasound in the hospital paid for by her insurance. It was a…
Category Archives: Pregnancy Journal
Pregnancy Journal: What Not To Say
From 5 Minutes for Parenting By Kelly My husband is a rock during childbirth. Not only is he great in stressful situations – particularly useful when I started bleeding profusely after the birth of our first daughter; he held the gauze and the light for the midwife while she stitched me back together – but…
Pregnacy Journal: Boxes of Memories
From 5 Minutes for Parenting By Kelly Seven boxes of memories are stacked in the spare room right now, waiting for me to shed my coat of melancholy so I can sort through them. It will be a job that requires the emotional detachment worthy of a Vulcan (or Dr. Cox from “Scrubs” ). Each…
Pregnancy Journal: For the Love of Pregnancy
From 5 Minutes for Parenting By Kelly I was talking on the phone to my sister last weekend, lamenting my falling-apart-disease and my advanced maternal age and my weariness with being pregnant in winter. And while she felt for me, she also let loose a deep sigh, and she said, “I would give anything to…
Pregnancy Journal: I Am Falling Apart
From 5 Minutes for Parenting By Kelly I am falling apart. I determined this last week when I heaved my aching, groaning self onto the couch, after a long day of single parenthood to 3.5 kids. (My husband travels a lot for business in the winter months, to unfortunate locales like Florida and Virginia and…
Pregnancy Journal: He’s Moving! I Swear He Is!
From 5 Minutes for Parenting By Kelly The baby boy inside of me moves. A lot. He kicks and jabs and turns and rolls. There are times my abdomen feels like a super-flex garbage bag that can handle the sharpest pokes and prods. There are other times my belly looks like the waves of an…
Pregnancy Journal: One More Toddler
From 5 Minutes for Parenting By Kelly There are few things as sweet as a two-year-old. There. I’ve said it. I know two is an exhausting age. In the last seven days, Teyla has discovered how to make gum out of toilet paper and toilet water, learned to take off her pants and her diaper,…
Pregnancy Journal: Maternity Wear — and Not to Wear
From 5 Minutes for Parenting By Kelly Today is my birthday. It is my tradition to wear my favorite outfit on my birthday, something that is fun yet practical, comfortable yet chic. When I was in the shower this morning, I mentally sorted through my clothes to see what I might don to make today…
Pregnancy Journal: Halfway
From 5 Minutes for Parenting By Kelly I’m halfway there. No. Sorry. Let me rephrase. I’M HALFWAY THERE! WOO-HOO! Twenty weeks (almost 21) is a milestone for most of us preggos. We are amazed we’ve made it this far, and simultaneously freaked out that we only have 20 weeks (or less) to go. “Do I…
Pregnancy Journal: What’s Coming
From 5 Minutes for Parenting By Kelly Today, I’m 19 weeks pregnant. I think. Hang on. Let me check my online pregnancy calendar. (Insert cheesy hold music here.) OK. I’m back. And it’s true – the calendar says 19 weeks. But dang if I can remember it without help. I’m not sure if it’s because…