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Anxious

PUBLISHED: May 8, 2009 | By Hilary Erickson

I really get SO anxious after I nap. I'm talking the deep breathing kind of you feel like the world is tightening around you kind of Continue Reading

In THAT Moment

PUBLISHED: May 7, 2009 | By Hilary Erickson

I've been wanting to write a blog about this since the moment it happened -- but it slipped my mind and it's such an amazing moment, I wanted to do it Continue Reading

P week 1

PUBLISHED: May 6, 2009 | By Hilary Erickson

Guess who's a week old today. Well, this evening to be more precise... on Monday night we had a little birthday party for her (hard to say if we had Continue Reading

Funnies from the Land of Lactation

PUBLISHED: May 5, 2009 | By Hilary Erickson

I am pumping, today -- at one point, I got 10 cc's -- it was a pretty happy time. The rest of the time I seem to get about 5 cc's -- that's 10 minutes Continue Reading

Much Better

PUBLISHED: May 4, 2009 | By Hilary Erickson

Doing much better this morning. They sent the social worker to talk to me in the hospital, because I had checked the box for having had postpartum Continue Reading

Postpartum depression

Baby Blues, or a lack of pink

PUBLISHED: May 4, 2009 | By Hilary Erickson

Note to reader: This is not an attempt to get sympathy. This is just an article -- read it as you would an article on Newsweek -- please distance it Continue Reading

Me, Slowly Pulling My Hair Out

PUBLISHED: May 4, 2009 | By Hilary Erickson

Well, I've officially reached ugly. Baby cried much of the night, no apparent reasons. The nurses said to be careful with how much she was eating, Continue Reading

Home, night 1

PUBLISHED: May 2, 2009 | By Hilary Erickson

I always hate the first night home. I dread it. In fact, I was almost having a panic attack on Thursday night at the hospital. I don't know if it was Continue Reading

Induct Me

PUBLISHED: May 2, 2009 | By Hilary Erickson

After contraction for HOURS on Tuesday night, absolutely nothing was happening by the morning, so we were off to the hospital. Luckily we had our Continue Reading

Home Again

PUBLISHED: May 1, 2009 | By Hilary Erickson

Alright, it's done -- she's out -- and she's all ours.   And she IS a she. Let the cutting of tags begin. Home today. Laceration hurting Continue Reading

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