Any Dream Analysts Out There?
September 16, 2008 by Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor
Filed under breastfeeding, mothering
I have had two dreams — nightmares — that Nicole turned out not to be mine. The first dream happened when she was six weeks old. In the dream, my husband and I were staying at a hotel. There was a knock on the door, and in walked one of my old neighbors from Michigan. He had come to pick the baby up. “Thanks for watching her!” he said, and walked out the door with her. I was positively heartbroken to realize that I had only been babysitting and I had fallen so in love with her that I had …read more
On Baby Watch 2008: 38 Weeks
July 15, 2008 by Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor
Filed under breastfeeding, pregnancy
Today marks 38 weeks of pregnancy. My thoughts at this point:
1. Husband home from Ireland [check]. Birth supplies bought [check]. Birth tub set up [check]. A million nesting tasks accomplished [meals in freezer - check; air vent dusted - check]. Group B Strep test negative [check].
2. Call them Braxton-Hicks, call them pre-labor, I call them “hinting at painful.”
3. Perhaps I ought to work on positive thinking and consider them not so much painful as powerful.
4. Why, when a woman is preparing to give birth and needs all the rest she can get, does she find herself with insomnia that …read more
