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Brain Dump

As I rolled out of bed this morning, I almost collapsed to the floor in a ball of agony. "Hello, pregnancy hip pains," I muttered to myself. "Now I remember you!" Hip pains and crotch pains. Hip pains from my hip joints loosening (I was not officially diagnosed with Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction in my last pregnancy, but it was still bad enough that I couldn't exercise for all of my third trimester) and the crotch pain from the increased bloodflow to the pelvic area. If you weren't around the first time I was pregnant, the hip pains feel like my right hip joint is about to pop open with every step or movement. Crotch pains feel like someone's been repeatedly kicking me in the...

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Level II Ultrasound (And Some Blood…)

Today J and I trekked down to the hospital for our Level II Ultrasound. We were excited to see BebeDeux again, but more excited to definitively find out the gender of our impending one. BebeDeux was not cooperative right from the get-go. The ultrasound tech actually told us that just from the way the baby was moving, she would guess that it is a girl — from her experience, boys tend to be a lot more cooperative during their Level II Ultrasounds. (Any of my mommy readers care to confirm her observation?) We ended up pausing twice — the first time for me to gulp down some cold water, and the second time for me to walk around a bit — just...

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19 Weeks

I feel bad that I haven't been writing about BebeDeux and this pregnancy as much as I did with Claire. But with the two babies so close in age, I haven't forgotten much about my pregnancy with Claire, and aside from a few minor differences, this pregnancy is very similar. I do not consider this pregnancy any less special than the one with Claire; I just feel redundant writing the same thing over again. :-( That being said, I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M ALMOST HALFWAY THROUGH. Holy crap. Where did the time go? Here are the few differences that I have noticed: No round ligament pains with this pregnancy! If you can remember, my round ligament pains with Claire were more painful than...

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