Author: rachelvb
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Happy 3 months, Jack
Night feels like limbo, some strange net where the hours hang. Pat and I are floating birds, the way they hang in a drift. There is no other person on the planet I would wake up for as much as our little man. He’s 3 months old today and it’s hard to put a baby…
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Well this sucks
I’m here again. Sitting at work and thinking about my little boy in some lady named Jacki’s arms. It’s strange to have my computer exactly as it was when I left it: the same internet windows popped open like the day I left – radio lab and the Goomba Mushroom Super Mario costume I ordered…
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Quick! While he’s sleeping
God, it’s been a month. How did that happen?! He’s a love. The best baby we could have asked for. He loves fleece upon fleece, hates to be cold – a true AZ boy. He loves to smile and fart and thinks it’s hilarious when he pees on his Dad. We’ve gone a ton of…
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Jack
I’ve been trying to do this post for a few days, but can’t upload photos from my phone for some reason. I’ll update this with a few things I want to remember from the last few surreal days. Jack Michael O’Farrell was born on Monday, October 13 2014 at 2:22am. He weighed 8lbs 10oz and…
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Still waiting. Still walking
Today is my last day at work. The only thing I can equate it to is the last day of school, but with bills and adulthood and, like, still having to face labor and not getting to sleep in. Yesterday, I went to the doctor and I’m already 4cm and I haven’t had to do…
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36-39 Weeks
Slow news day. Things are happening, slowly, which my mom says is a good thing. Rationally, I agree with her. I wonder what in the baby’s mind flips the switch? Nature is weird, man. Why all of the sudden does the lightbulb turn on and it’s time for the baby to peace out? I have…
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Backseat driver Ellen
‘Cause it’s only Wednesday and feels like at least Thursday or Friday and Ellen is just funny.
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Willing fall
I’m going to relish the next few weeks. The baby and I will never be this close again. I heard on Radiolab that fetal cells remain in their mothers for decades. Of course they do, how can you be that attached to a person and not have some spillover? 3 weeks after waiting 37 is…
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Maternity photos (3-ish weeks to go)
Last weekend really really really early in the morning, we took our maternity photos with a co-worker of mine, Jill McNamara. Jill is also doing our newborn photos, so we have more photo shoots to look forward to and more importantly, the, uh, baby! Jill added a few other photos to her website here if…
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5 weeks (ish) to go
I’m going to the doctor every week now. Things are winding down/gearing up all at the same time. The baby’s head is down – at a -1 station which means that … it’s down. haha. It goes from -5 (where the head is above the pelvis to a 5 where the head is basically out…