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By: EA

EA — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:12:53 +0000

whoa she's a cute little baby. i too will have my baby boy this coming month. i do love your post. scottish debt expert

By: Painted Maypole

Painted Maypole — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:36:34 +0000

interesting question about the mirror gestation. It was probably about 4 months before I emerged from gestation during the day… but a mere 6 weeks in I began rehearsals for a show, and so in the evenings I was gloriously myself again. (and the 4 month mark was when I joined a moms group, and could talk with other adults… about baby things and other things… but no one minded that I had a baby on my arm or at my breast while we chatted. These women GOT me. it was great)

By: woman in a window

woman in a window — Fri, 29 May 2009 02:24:52 +0000

I’m kinda posting tomorrow about my gestation. It was nine years. Just waking up now. Who was that woman who was so annoying as new mother (FOR NINE YEARS!!!) and who am I now that I have woken up?

You and yours are doing wonderfully.

By: Chichiboulie

Chichiboulie — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:07:51 +0000

Well… Leopold will be 3 in a very short time and sometimes I do feel like a real human again. But only sometimes. Most times my standard response to any question is “I’m tired.”

Posey is gorgeous btw!!

By: niobe

niobe — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:38:39 +0000

Um….I guess I’m one of those robot-types. Maybe it’s because I didn’t breastfeed. Or because I went back to work full time quickly — at six weeks for Gray, at about ten weeks for Cole. Or because this one was a surrogacy.

In fact, the only time I felt like I lost myself was that other time, the one I try not to think about, the time when I lay awake night after night even though there were no babies crying in the dark.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:08:51 +0000

She’s beautiful; as are you.

I remember this–the feeling of probably never getting back to normal–sometimes, after all these years, I still feel like that, you know?

By: mrs. chicken

mrs. chicken — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:12:40 +0000

Henry will be 10 months old on June 6. I just now feel myself.

Wonderful post, as always.

By: Damselfly

Damselfly — Thu, 28 May 2009 02:13:36 +0000

You capture that fourth trimester — and beyond — so perfectly in this post. Perfect.

I think I’m also the eight/nine in/out kind of mother.

By: jen

jen — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:10:57 +0000

oh bon. when i think back to you getting pregnant, and being pregnant, i still get a bit misty.

i do.

By: Chaos Control

Chaos Control — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:33:13 +0000

Here I am nearly 18 months after birth and I continue to struggle to formulate a full sentence. Or find words that make sense. Or any words at all, for that matter.

(Most) of the rest of me has returned, albeit slowly. But the brainpower is still lacking to a degree that is somewhat alarming.

Oh, I so relate to this post of yours!!!