lazy day

I didn’t do much at all today.  No, that’s not true.  I did quite a few things, it’s just that – for a change – the day didn’t revolve around work or baby-makin’.  A day off work, and I’ve been pretty damned stressed out by work and other injustices lately, so I spent my day [...]

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Day five.

Yawn.
A blustery day, so the first homemade clam-chowder of the season with what will probably be the last asparagus of the season.  A day of cooking and writing – how wonderful an autumn day is that?  Answer: in my world, that counts as a muy wonderful day, indeed.
And Nellie hasn’t eaten anything she shouldn’t all [...]

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Connecticut

Back from a wonderful long weekend at the boy’s parents’ country house in Connecticut. They were interested and supportive of pregnancy, I got a couple of sincere compliments from his mother, who told me that I’m looking ‘radiant’ these days. Since she’s not the type to mince words, I took it as a [...]

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w5d4

No news being good news, and I have nothing to report. Feel fine, got lots of sleep last night. My need to pee all night long seems to have gone away – much to my relief. I’m sure it’ll come back, but really, this is far too early for my bladder to [...]

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It’s official = HCG levels at 147

The nurse at my RE’s called up to offer congratulations and to ask that I maintain the restrictions & meds. protocol in place at least until Monday.
Argh.
This is RE code double-speak for no sex, and, baby-making-without-sex-related irony aside, the lack of which is just killing me.
I know this is code, because I forced her to [...]

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