Boobs are complicated
I’m pretty sure that this is a statement that everyone will agree with to some extent or another, but in this particular instance I am referring to their function as…
Category: storytime
Blogtober 30: 100 days
People have, comparatively recently, talked about the first few months of infancy as a “fourth trimester”. I first read about it in book written by Dr. Harvey Karp, and I…
Blogtober 26: giving birth!
As you may have gathered from the cliffhanger at the end of yesterday’s post, things all changed pretty soon after that. That evening (April 22nd) after my husband came home,…
Blogtober 25: the third trimester
By the time the third trimester came around, we were pretty much already set. We had bought the majority of the “baby stuff” in my second trimester, during the New…
Blogtober 24: the second trimester
At week 13/the beginning of November, I “graduated” from the fertility clinic and started going to the hospital at which I would give birth, and where the remainder of my…
Blogtober 23: the first trimester
Today, my baby is six months old! So I thought I’d write a little bit about our journey thus far. When my doctor said “congratulations” and gestured at the piece…
Blogtober 17: (not) studying Japanese
My first introduction to Japanese was through anime music. Not even through anime! My parents weren’t the type to have anything beyond the four available terrestrial channels and anime wasn’t…
Blogtober 9: a dream is a wish your heart would make if you could actually get any sleep
(cw: postpartum anxiety/depression, mentions of self harm, suicidal thoughts and infant death. Not every post is going to be so heavy, I promise!) In the grand scheme of things, my…
DoubleDelight : a blog, for now 