This website contains a chronicle of my experience through pregnancy, postpartum, and the first years of motherhood.

Update: I decided to be a “stay at home work from home” mom. Here are the posts leading up to Year 2 and Here is Year 2!

PREGNANCY

I’ve blogged 86 entries describing my experiences with pregnancy, including a tough first trimester. I was extremely nauseous and confined to the bed or sofa because I felt too sick to do much of anything. My “first trimester” symptoms lasted 5 months! I also described some emotional highs and lows of pregnancy, and the realization that I was in the process of a major life transition.

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BIRTH AND POSTPARTUM

There are 24 blog entries relating to my birth and postpartum experiences, and the early weeks of motherhood. We’ve had a bumpy start, as our baby developed an infection 2 days after he was born, and had to be readmitted to the hospital. Fortunately he recovered fully. Needless to say, I was hormonal and emotional during the postpartum weeks, and felt like I was completely clueless as a new mom.

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NEWBORN AND THE FIRST YEAR

I blogged 122 entries relating to my baby’s first year and our transition into parenthood. I tried really hard to juggle motherhood and entrepreneurship, but just couldn’t do it to my satisfaction. I ended up taking the year to focus primarily on being a mom, and with whatever time I had left over, I did some business stuff. I also struggled with self identity, from entrepreneur & business woman to “mom”.

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THE NANNY YEARS…

So begins our quest to find a part time nanny for my one year old.

We did this by having my mom stay with us for a few months while we look for a nanny, but soon we discovered that this approach brought new challenges. For one, my mother must always offer her opinion on everything I do. Moreover, my mother has a different idea of household cleanliness than does my husband. What I thought was a great idea is now generating tension at our house almost all the time.

When I first started this blog, I deliberately kept it anonymous so that I can be very honest about my thoughts around the businesses I was running and how this would change when I became a mother. Maybe one day, I’ll reveal my identity on this blog.

In the meantime… I’ll keep coming back here when I feel like I need a safe place to write or vent.

Photo credits: 9 Months and “All Hooked Up” by Benjamin Earwicker, cake picture by Giani Pralea, My Little Angel picture by Simona Balint.