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		<title>30 weeks, 5 days &#8211; A gift for our son</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago I completed the process of creating a baby registry.  It was a strange, strange experience.  There was more research involved than I expected&#8230; but maybe I should have expected it.  There are lists all over the internet about the things that you absolutely must have for your baby &#8211; half [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forgingtheballandchain.wordpress.com&blog=2512389&post=253&subd=forgingtheballandchain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>29 weeks, 6 days &#8211; Baking a meatloaf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On vacation in May we were talking with some friends about their son and they said, in passing, something about pushing out a meatloaf or baking a meatloaf.  An apt description of their 10+ pound monster-sized (and utterly adorable) baby.  Well, between Pete and I the term &#8220;meatloaf&#8221; has come to mean any large baby.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forgingtheballandchain.wordpress.com&blog=2512389&post=247&subd=forgingtheballandchain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>29 weeks, 5 days &#8211; Upsetting the apple cart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot lately about what&#8217;s coming down the pike for us.  In May, when we found out we were pregnant, this time felt so far, far away&#8230; fall, the third trimester, the 30-something weeks of pregnancy&#8230; all of it.  Yet somehow, with what feels like just a blink, here we are.  The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forgingtheballandchain.wordpress.com&blog=2512389&post=244&subd=forgingtheballandchain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>29 weeks, 1 day &#8211; Doula</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m happy to say that we&#8217;ve selected our doula.  We&#8217;re going with the woman, Ellen, who was recommended to us by our friends.  Apparently, she&#8217;s the uber-doula of the greater Philly area, having trained or supported several of the other doulas that we talked with.  She also spent a decade or so as a labor &#38; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forgingtheballandchain.wordpress.com&blog=2512389&post=239&subd=forgingtheballandchain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://forgingtheballandchain.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/29-weeks-1-day-doula/</link>
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		<title>28 weeks, 5 days &#8211; Nothing much</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not a whole lot that&#8217;s reflective or insightful to post today so I thought I&#8217;d just update you on the logistics.  Friday I went to the midwife and had the gestational diabetes blood test.  Waiting for the results now.  She did a quick exam and found that all&#8217;s well.  My belly&#8217;s measuring where it should [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forgingtheballandchain.wordpress.com&blog=2512389&post=237&subd=forgingtheballandchain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>28 weeks, 1 day &#8211; Pregnancy stole my brain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d heard the term &#8220;mommy brain&#8221; before but I assumed that it was solely dedicated to that sleep-deprived time after the child is home when parents are fumbling their way towards figuring out how to parent, eat, and bathe on a regular &#8211; daily even! &#8211; basis.  It never occurred to me that this actual [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forgingtheballandchain.wordpress.com&blog=2512389&post=235&subd=forgingtheballandchain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://forgingtheballandchain.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/28-weeks-1-day-pregnancy-stole-my-brain/</link>
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		<title>27 weeks, 2 days &#8211; New due date</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had my first meeting with the new midwife today and it went well.  There are two midwives in the practice &#8211; one who&#8217;s been there a while and one who&#8217;s brand new, like, 2nd week in this practice new.  I met with the new midwife.  She seemed nice but is clearly still feeling out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forgingtheballandchain.wordpress.com&blog=2512389&post=223&subd=forgingtheballandchain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://forgingtheballandchain.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/27-weeks-2-days-new-due-date/</link>
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		<title>28 weeks &#8211; And the winner is&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NATHAN JAMES TRYON
Ever since we found out that the peanut is a boy, we&#8217;ve been batting around ideas for names.  We&#8217;d pick one, try it on for a while, and move on.  We finally, finally have made a decision and the winner is&#8230; Nathan James Tryon.  Nathan because, well, we just like it.  James because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forgingtheballandchain.wordpress.com&blog=2512389&post=221&subd=forgingtheballandchain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://forgingtheballandchain.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/28-weeks-and-the-winner-is/</link>
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		<title>27 weeks, 6 days &#8211; Laughter, tears, and anticipation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The emotions of pregnancy are strange, strange things.  There are lots of jokes out there about the pregnant woman demanding pickles and ice cream in the middle of the night, flipping into a rage over minor infractions, setting a new record for maintaining the status of &#8220;testy,&#8221; etc.  I didn&#8217;t know what to expect for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forgingtheballandchain.wordpress.com&blog=2512389&post=218&subd=forgingtheballandchain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://forgingtheballandchain.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/27-weeks-6-days-laughter-tears-and-anticipation/</link>
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		<title>Year 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This blog originally started as a wedding blog.  It was a place for us to share what was happening with the wedding planning, the decisions we were making, information about where to stay, etc.  When your family is as spread out as mine &#8211; parents a 10-hour drive away, brother on the other side of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=forgingtheballandchain.wordpress.com&blog=2512389&post=215&subd=forgingtheballandchain&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://forgingtheballandchain.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/year-1/</link>
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