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Put Your Gloves On
While it is cold enough where I am to literally freeze your tongue to a pole (see A Christmas Story), it’s definitely cold enough for mittens and gloves.  Which I wear every time I leave the house…and also to bed. I did make it through my best friends...
Dish Pan Hands
I finally broke down.  Bought a few pairs of latex gloves for the dish pan.  I have never been a fan of gloves while washing dishes.  Never.  However, as I have splits on my fingers that haven’t healed and just keep re-splitting…and...
Posted: Jan 14 2009, 08:53 AM by amop | with no comments
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House
Did anyone catch tonight's episode of House..."Lucky Thirteen?" If you're unfamiliar with the tv show House, it's about this nasty, totally un-PC physician at a NJ hospital named Gregory House. He has the knack for diagnosing all of those cases that no...
First Trimester Screening
Yesterday morning we headed into the hospital to have my first trimester screening. We didn't do this for our son, so the process was a bit new for us. We spent the first 30 minutes in a room with the ultrasound technician trying to get the baby to flip...
Happy...er...New Years
New Years was off to a great start in our house this year. I had developed signs of a sore throat New Year's Eve, and with the morning sickness I've been having, felt rather lousy most of the day. We grazed on leftovers (pizza and some other things) most...
Ovarian Cysts
I took a little time tonight to do some research about "swollen ovaries" and ovarian cysts...since I have one. Seems like they are common in pregnancy (about 1 in every 1,000 women will have one during pregnancy), so I'm not alone. What my doctors haven...
Posted: Dec 26 2007, 07:30 PM by amop | with no comments
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The First Picture
Today we received the first print out picture of our baby. How exciting! We were able to see the tiny little bubble of an "egg sac" (as they call it) two weeks ago, but today this sac now looked like a bean, and we could even see the "fluttering" inside...
The First of Many
I had my first visit with my primary OB this afternoon. Definitely exciting, and as my husband, my son in his winter suit packed into his stroller like that kid from A Christmas Story, and I huddled in a room with the sterile table, a bunch of rolling...
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