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Get Rich Slowly has had a couple of good posts on the costs of children lately, with hundreds of comments from those who have been there and done that.

The baby was persistently in a posterior position, I was huge and exhausted and miserable and sure that it was going to come early. I got sick with a bad cold, the due date came and went with a labor false alarm–regular contractions that started, stopped, started up again, and finally fizzled out, plus [...]

I’ve been two and a half weeks more pregnant than this, but I’d rather not go that long again.
MFH fixed up my computer–it was the video card, not the monitor–to keep it going a little while longer, but it’s still on the verge of dying of dust and old age.
I did get out last evening [...]

The monitor for my computer died the other day, just before I really needed it to get something done. I’m using MFH’s computer for now.
Yesterday I made a big batch of oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Most went into the freezer. The rest are gone now.
I got my fiddle endpin that I’m whittling [...]

…the “Oh crap, we’re going to have another child!” one.
TLG learned how to open the refrigerator a while back. We bought a fridge lock, and it took him less than a day to figure it out, and for half of it to fall off the fridge anyway.
I’m moving slowly today; I slipped [...]

…I’ve reached the stage of pregnancy where I am Ready to Be Done. Objectively, I know that extreme pregnancy is easier than having a newborn, but I don’t care anymore. I got the birth supplies all sorted out, and my major before-baby tasks completed. Now I’m just trying to keep caught up [...]

This is TLG’s birth story, from two years ago, which I think I never got around to actually posting.
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It sort of started Easter evening, I was feeling “broody” and did a few of my Monday chores early. Had some twinges in the tummy, but went to bed and to sleep.
I woke up at about [...]

The baby seems to have finished flipping head-down. Facing forward again, all knees and elbows and feet. Last night he or she had a huge case of the hiccups. I had a huge attack of insomnia, and got less than four hours of sleep. I took a bath and looked through [...]

I was amused to read the comments to this Vox Day post on vaccines, after reading the comments to this BoingBoing post the other day.
Many of the BoingBoing commenters essentially used this argument: Vaccines come from Science, Science is Good, therefore people who don’t get themselves or their children vaccinated must be [...]

It looks nice, except that it tends to not lie flat in the middle. I’ve been lying on it to try to flatten it out, but there are little children around who like to roll themselves up in it like a burrito. It is about four feet by five feet; oval; mostly pink, [...]