Tag Archives: first trimester
Why Subway is Better Than American Healthcare
In the women’s health industry, pregnancy-based issues are considered especially great opportunities for subjective misery. In Fayetteville, the particularly irate woman who is subject to these miseries comprises an individual squad known as Emily. This is her story. So yesterday we finally made the trip to the OB-GYN to see what exactly is going on. Do […]
All Hail Emily, Queen of the Muffin Top
It was bound to happen eventually. I am nearing the end of my first trimester, after all. I have known that at some point I would have to part with my normal, cute wardrobe. And I dreaded it, not out of a fear of pregnant corpulence but because I like my clothes. But it’s started: I […]
A New Kind of Crazy
The first thing I did when I found out I was pregnant was go to the library and check out nearly every book I could on pregnancy, birthing options, and pregnancy recipes. The first thing I noticed when I started reading the books I took out was that nearly all of them cater to very […]
Food Feud
My husband and I recently moved to rural North Carolina (actually, I guess it’s not really all that rural, strictly speaking, but it is quite a departure from our last three home cities: Seoul, Chicago, and Memphis) because he took a job teaching English at a local college. When we came here, the question of […]
The Waiting 