i’m spending long nights with another newborn. naturally, these little meetings throughout the wee hours have given rise to a new set of unanswerable questions. [they have also given rise to very strange dreams in which i am a spy for the government, but that's another post.] here are a few of my life’s mysteries, [...]

violet jane

friday, january 16th, 8:01 a.m.

7 lb. 10 oz., 19 1/2 inches long

i’m trying to loosen my overactive planning brain from the clutches it has around this birth thing. i’m breathing. i’m letting out all those worries. you know the worries: it’s too cold to have a baby, having a baby hurts, my mom has already been here for ten days and still no baby, my husband [...]

i had my 41 week appointment yesterday. first they left me in the waiting room for a half an hour so i could ponder my largeness compared to all the other pregnant ladies in the waiting room. then they left me in the exam room hooked up to a bunch of monitors for an hour [...]