postpartum

The Annual Calendar, The 10 Month Fog, and Postpartum Depression

In 2005, I started making calendars for the grandparents (and for ourselves) every Christmas. It's this wonderful, neck cricking tradition…

9 years ago

How I Lose the Pregnancy Weight

  What I look like, every single time, right after giving birth:  This was a few days after I had…

10 years ago

I Have Four Small Children and a little trouble getting to Solla Sollew!!!!!!!!

I guess toddlers are kind of like cats.  Put a box down, and in they go.  Today little John David…

11 years ago

The New Normal Postpartum

 John David and me 6 weeks postpartum I have returned to wearing make-up --finally-- but my hair straightener will probably…

11 years ago

The Miracle of Iron for Postpartum Anemia

If you have read the blog lately you know I have had a hard time with anemia for a while.…

11 years ago

The Fourth Week Postpartum

John David, 3 1/2 weeks old, in an outfit provided by my friend Helena, who let it be known, is…

11 years ago

DeTox Day

Apparently being J.D. is just exhausting.  This is what he usually looks like.   My recovery has not been all…

11 years ago