Category Archives: Parenting

Getting Used to the New PICC Line

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Although the new PICC line is awfully pretty, what with its purple and its not oozing, it feels weird. When I straighten my arm quickly, I feel an odd motion in my arm, like someone pulled the string on one of those whirligig things we played with when we were kids, or like you pulled back and released one of those… Read more »

Allergic Reaction to PICC Line Wing Guard

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Things have been trucking along just fine for the last two months or so here in Hyperemesis Land. Not great, but sooo much better than I was the first few months, when I thought I would die and actually kind of looked forward to the relief death would bring. When I had my PICC line inserted on July 7, my… Read more »

Are They Multiplying?

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It’s started to feel like there are more than two babies in there, or perhaps they have sprouted additional limbs. Generally, Left Baby is the really active one who kicks and rolls and does laps daily. But this weekend Right Baby started to get in on more of the action. Last night and this morning made me wonder if this… Read more »

Surprise, it’s a Baby! On Finding Out the Sex of Your Unborn Child

I’m getting annoyed with people who look down their nose at Daddy in Training and me because we fully intend to find out the sexes of our babies as soon as humanly possible. “But don’t you want it to be a surprise?” they ask disdainfully. As if we won’t be surprised whenever it is that we find out? It’s not… Read more »