Pregnancy, Birth and Motherhood

I've been sitting at my computer for some time now, trying to think of something to write about. I have the time and the inclination, but nothing is coming to fruition for me. With this blog, I still struggle with "who really cares?" or "is it interesting?". I guess I don't feel like I very often have anything useful to say, or have an interesting opinion to express. Right now in my life, everything is about baby and motherhood. I have five books on my coffee table that I'm reading about pregnancy and childbirth. There is the popular What to Expect While You're Expecting, the technical The Female Pelvis: Anatomy and Exercises, the overwhelming Healthy Eating During Pregnancy, the rarely touched The Everything Birthing Book and the very informative but get-to-the-point-already Hypnobirthing. Plus, three baby-centered magazines and two pregnancy-centered journals. With such reading materials, I don't exactly have any ah-ha moments that make me want to run to the Internet to blog about how I should be doing exercises to stretch my perineum to try to prevent tearing during delivery or express my naive opinion of certain birthing (and after birthing) practices.

I wouldn't even have written the above paragraph, but I felt like writing and it was all I could come up with in the moment. If nothing else, this short entry helped me to continue my efforts in breaking my habit of spacing twice after periods. That's how I was taught, but now standard practice is to space only once and it is a habit that is proving very difficult for me to let go of.

Now, I'm off to the grocery store.

Love,
Aislinn