meredith on January 1st, 2009

I have been a ridiculously loyal customer of Pottery Barn since I moved into my first apartment. My sofa, my coffee and side tables, my entire bedroom set, every single one of my light fixtures, my towels (and more)… all Pottery Barn. We registered there for our wedding four years ago. When I want good [...]

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meredith on December 21st, 2008

When we first started talking about having a baby, I thought of pregnancy as no more than a necessary (and annoying) part of getting a baby. I didn’t relish the thought of my body changing, not being able to do all the things I normally can (food, drink, activities), and just feeling generally crappy. I’m [...]

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meredith on October 31st, 2008

The other day, we were having a going-away party for a colleague who we’d barely just gotten to know since she started in September. We were sitting around eating pizza and she asked me where I was planning on having my baby. When I told her, she told me that I absolutely shouldn’t, that it [...]

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meredith on October 13th, 2008

Just as the nausea and exhaustion of the first trimester have started to abate, I have a lovely new pregnancy symptom. For the past few weeks, I’ve been having trouble with kidney stones. When I get an attack of renal colic, the pain is the worst I’ve felt in my life and there’s absolutely nothing [...]

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