Mommy Blog or Bust!

Hi, and welcome!

Upon finding out I was pregnant at about 5 or 6 weeks gestation, I initially set up this blog. Then? I found that wonderful thing called the "Due Date Club" via several web sites & apps. I also discovered first trimester exhaustion, and decided those Due Date Clubs were all I had the energy for.

I'm due February 18, 2013 and currently 17 weeks. I like to say that the 2nd trimester is my favorite, because "everyone knows and I can still sleep." Of course, I'm hoping I'll still be able to sleep during the 3rd trimester, but don't know for sure what to expect when my belly gets bigger.

I'm also going to be a FTM or, what they call a First Time Mom.

I'm 35 and this is all new to me. While we got pregnant on purpose, it was a long journey for me to get to where I felt ready. I didn't grow up knowing I wanted to be a mom, cooing along at other people's baby pictures, or coveting nursery decor. I had a mom who scarred me with her story of how horribly painful my birth was and spent most of my adult life trying not to get pregnant.

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While I haven't always known if I wanted to be a mom, I have always felt that if or when I took the plunge - I'd be all in. And it's true. My BFP came with none of the horror I'd so long imagined and plenty of the joy. I still have plenty of research when it comes to certain pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting issues but I feel pretty comfortable in my overall philosophy. I'm pro attachment theory (as in the research theory; I'm also interested in general premise of the more popular "attachment parenting" approach), I'm semi-crunchy with a side of "doula AND epidural, please!" and believe that while I'll surely make plenty of mistakes and feel pretty utterly inadequate many times, I'll generally be a damn good mom. More so with the emotional stuff than the having my practical shite together stuff, but still.

I have long wanted entrance into the world of Mommy Blogs - they seem to make personal blogging seem so much more legit. Now, if I can only find time to maintain this blog once the baby arrives.

Right now, I'm thinking of the more timely impetus for my getting this blog going: food. I've been spending too much money on it and menu planning seems to be one tangible and fun area to start cutting back on more regularly.

So here's to mommy blogging, menu planning, and maitri. If you're wondering what maitri is, it's a Buddhist word for loving-kindness, directed toward self and others. It's something I'd really like to embody and model for my child.