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September: Reflection & Rejuvenation
Image courtesy the Nikki McClure calendarPhew! I somehow managed to make it through August. Well, it wasn’t so bad. It was just a lot of work to make it not bad.… Read MoreThe month started with a trip to Las Vegas for a national conference. I spent a lot of time in July preparing for the conference. We took at side trip to Zion National Park in Utah, and I had to make sure that I didn’t overexert my pregnant self while hiking. It was also challenging to continue to eat healthy food and to stay hydrated.
Then I was thrust into getting ready for school. It would have been
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Pregnancy Pictures
Erin’s Growing Baby Belly from Tim Betler on Vimeo.
I have to confess that Matt and I have not capitalized on the photo op provided by my ever-expanding pregnant belly. We haven’t yet come up with a “concept,” and it’s preventing us from moving forward. Lame, I know.… Read MoreFirst, I had the idea that we could bring our camera along on our weekly trip to Whole Foods and we could ask a different random stranger to pose with me each week. Although I like this idea, Matt and I agree that we are both a little too shy to pull this off.
Last week, we agreed that we would
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Minimizing Sugar During Pregnancy
My midwife is kind of strict on the nutrition front. When I was preparing for conception, I looked at the sugar content of my food and tried to keep it below 20 grams for a particular item (since that’s the number I had in my head from my friend’s birth with my midwife a few years ago).… Read MoreWhen I started going to my midwife, I realized the limit was not 20 grams but, instead, 3-6 grams. Gulp! What that means is that I cannot eat things like dried fruit or any type of flavored yogurt or juice. There’s simply too much sugar in pretty much everything.
For the first trimester,
