by heirtoblair on December 8, 2012
I get asked pretty often about Harry & Tuck’s relationship & how we made that whole baby-canine friendship come to fruition. Point 1: I am not Ceasar Milan. On the flip side, I grew up with dogs (at one point we had three in the house) & have attended official dog training stuff, so I [...]
by heirtoblair on November 15, 2012
I’m going to put it out there, say it loud & proud, & I want you all to join me: IT SUCKS TO BE OVERDUE. Forty-plus weeks pregnant, in a full-on waddle with swelling, sitting behind a desk in a pencil skirt. That was me back in October 2009 & I will never forget the [...]
by heirtoblair on November 13, 2012
When I found out I was pregnant, the nurse gave my baby a gestational age based on the start of my last menstrual date, even though I knew that I didn’t ovulate 14 days into my cycle. So when the little beating heart on the ultrasound screen was measuring 3 days “smaller” than the gestational [...]
by heirtoblair on October 30, 2012
title: Ute Thumps & Heart Thumps I was 17 weeks the first time I felt Harrison move. I never had the moments before where I wondered, “Is that it? Is that it?” Maybe because my sciatic pain hurt too badly for me to focus on anything else, or maybe because I was always shoving my [...]
by heirtoblair on September 3, 2012
title: I aced the test, now what? note: I am not currently pregnant. It was a September morning in 2008, too early for the sun to be fully up. I had a feeling but I’d had “that feeling” the month before when it had been a lie. Doug peeked through one eye & asked me [...]