News
G. Grod and I are expecting again. Drake’s little sibling is due in late February. This is a bittersweet thing for me to write. While we planned and want to have more than one child, we have several close friends who are struggling to get or to stay pregnant. I’ve become very aware that congratulating someone on pregnancy is very strange–hey guys, good job on you know what!–while the positive attention that pregnant women and women with new babies attract can be like a twisting dagger to those for whom life is far less fair. While I’m excited for us, I’m sad, yet hopeful, for our friends.
For the past three months, I’ve been fatigued and nauseous, which has not done a lot to help my writing habit. If I every get over this rotten cold (two weeks today and counting) I hope to feel better, generally, and be more consistent with this weblog and get back to work on my novel. Because, come February, life’s going to get a lot more complicated.
September 8th, 2005 at 6:51 am
Congratulations, even if congratulating you is weird! It’s wonderful news. Will you be blogging about this pregnancy like you did with Drake over at Mama Duck? I hope so.
September 8th, 2005 at 8:47 am
Congratulations!! Best wishes for good health for all of you!
September 8th, 2005 at 10:45 am
Congrats! I hope the next months are happy and healthy for all of you!
September 8th, 2005 at 2:30 pm
Congrats! I’m very excited for you. You were only a few weeks behind me when you started Mamaduck (Lissa’s B-Day is the 8th). I JUST ushered in the first two days of my third trimester with more morning sickness I was ASSURED would go away at the beginning of the second trimester….rriiiigggghhhttt.
September 8th, 2005 at 3:34 pm
Erin, I don’t think I’ll blog about the pregnancy as much or in as much detail as I did at Mama Duck. I started that blog as an outlet for all the “I can’t believe this” stuff (like the constant runny nose, and “all day every day” sickness rather than morning sickness) and because we didn’t tell folks for the first trimester. Now that I’ve been there and done that, and also know that there are lots of people blogging about it, I think I’ll still try to focus on what I think this blog is about,which is cultivating a learning life as well as being a mom.
September 8th, 2005 at 7:56 pm
“I think I’ll still try to focus on what I think this blog is about,which is cultivating a learning life as well as being a mom. ”
Have I told you lately that I love you?
Heh, heh, heh.
I am teasing, of course. And I hope the above made you laugh out loud (as opposed to running from the computer calling for G. Grod).
Best wishes for a healthy, happy pregnancy.
Sorry I’m late to the well-wishing party.
Melissa
September 8th, 2005 at 9:11 pm
Melissa, your comment made me smile, because I could detect the affection between the lines. And G. Grod sat undisturbed across the room, each of us at our own machine. Because of course it was your blog that penetrated the fog of my difficult post-partum time with Drake and made me want to claw my way back to being a thinking, writing, learning person. And of course that will all change when the baby arrives. But I’ve gone through it once, and I can go through it again, though it will be harder and different and perhaps longer till I get back to the place of physical/emotional/intellectual quasi-balance that I feel I sometimes am in nowadays. It’s funny. The parenting magazines all feature articles about getting your body back, but not one of them mentions getting one’s mental faculties back. Perhaps I’ll write that one, and pitch it, and see if it flies.
September 9th, 2005 at 8:58 am
wow, congrats. here’s to a safe, joyful pregnancy and healthy birth. -d
September 10th, 2005 at 12:58 pm
Hey, there’s another Erik? Cool… (unless I have some kind of Tyler Durden thing happening, thanks to the schedule and the work and all).
Congrats to one and all! That’s wonderful news and and I’m sure your mental faculties are already more resilient. I predict lots of wise and knowing laughs in your house, during the next year.