Eight month belly shot

This morning, I snapped this photo in the bathroom of a cafe where I'm working. My belly is definitely pointier since last month.

Also a funny note: I don't usually get cat calls, but waddling around NYC, I've been getting tons of pregnancy cat calls from doormen and bike messengers shouting "Hey, Mama!" "Eight months?" "Look at that belly!" Taxi drivers will even roll down their windows to weigh in: "It's a girl!" It's a funny part of being pregnant in NYC.

Just a couple weeks left. I'm excited and nervous. Labor doesn't hurt that much, right? :)

P.S. Also really looking forward to this. Oh how I've missed thee.

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Seven month belly shot

Alex snapped a few belly shots last night. I'm 31 weeks, which means I'm about 7 months along. The baby has started to lurch around in my belly, I'm starting to feel enormous, and we've been washing teeny onesies in preparation. We're getting close! One surprising thing is that the baby feels so heavy, which is apparently normal for second pregnancies. But if I walk more than three blocks, I have to lug my belly up with both hands. My friend jokes that it's like carrying a bag of groceries, which sadly rings true:)

Have you seen the tumblr The Pregnant Husband? Made me laugh out loud a million times.

Hope you had a great weekend. xoxo

P.S. Great book for mothers-to-be, and a pregnancy survival guide.

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Sunglasses giveaway

Even though I'm blind as a bat, I never had prescription sunglasses before. I figured I'd wear my glasses for important things (driving, movies) and then fumble around in sunglasses at the playground or on vacation. But! This year, Alex finally convinced me to get them, and now I honestly don't know why I waited so long. I CAN SEE!!!! :)

For my sunglasses, I chose the Woody pair from Lookmatic. The sunglasses were $95, prescription included, and they're sent right to your house. (I also wore them on our babymoon trip.)

Today, Lookmatic has offered to give a pair of prescription sunglasses to one lucky reader. For a chance to win, please visit Lookmatic and leave a comment below telling us your favorite style. A winner will be selected randomly on Monday. Good luck! Update: The winner has been emailed. Thanks for playing.

P.S. My regular glasses.

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HATCH spring collection!

My friend Ariane designs HATCH, the beautiful maternity brand, so when she invited me to her showroom to try on some new spring pieces, I jumped at the chance! Last week, I rode my trusty bike to Soho and arrived ready to play dress up. Here are a few photos...Read More >

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Belly shots

This morning, Alex snapped a couple belly shots. It looks small in these photos, but I swear it's bigger in person!

A few observations about this pregnancy: I'm hungry like the wolf. And I go from zero to sixty—not at all hungry to suddenly in a blind panic to shovel food into my mouth. I don't remember that from last time! It's getting harder to sleep now, and I'm thinking of ordering one of these hilarious body pillows. My boobs are bigger! I'm more anxious than usual. Sometimes I know I’m being neurotic, but I can’t stop. And I discovered these chewable prenatal vitamins, which are awesome since the regular ones are like horse pills. Most of all, we cannot wait to meet this little one in July.

(And my belly was a little bigger after our Indian dinner on my birthday...:)
P.S. My belly shot last month, and my growing belly during Toby's pregnancy.

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Very happy nine-month news...

After holding my tongue for months, I'm really excited to announce that Alex and I are expecting our second child! We are completely over the moon. I'm three months along, so the baby should arrive around July 3rd. Toby has requested that we have a "glurl" and name her "Thomas," after this friendly guy.

Pregnancy and new motherhood felt both wonderful and disorienting the first time around, so I'm curious how different it will feel the second time. Funnily enough, this pregnancy already feels much more real. With Toby, my pregnancy felt surreal and was hard to wrap my head around, but now we know more about what to expect. My friend Sari and I were talking about the experience of expecting a second child, and she said, "Because I knew what it felt like to love Jude, I was able to tap into this deep, true kind of love for Teddy from the very instant I knew I was pregnant with her." I loved that.

How mindblowing to think we're going to experience a newborn again along with all those sweet steps: growing a belly, finding out the gender, giving birth, choosing a name, cuddling a newborn, breastfeeding, doing tummy time, acting a little crazy, waking up early, swapping drool-y kisses, trying to figure out a good work-life balance, standing up, taking first steps, saying first words....

I can't wait. :)

(Photo kindly taken by our friend Shannen Norman. Thank you again, Shannen!)

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