Author: Hannah Richards

This week I am 6 months pregnant. Let me repeat that - 6 months pregnant. For some reason this seems infinitely more absurd than 24 weeks. 24 weeks (out of 40) seems like not that many. 6 months out of 9.5 seems like there is barely any time left. This feels absurd because honestly I [...]

So last weekend I stayed up until midnight. I realize how absurd this sounds but that is actually the latest I've stayed up in at least 6 months. I am a pathetic loser. Even more pathetic is the fact that I legit felt hungover the next day due to being tired and drinking too many [...]

Finally (well, it's only 22 weeks but it feels like finally) Dan got to feel baby kick! I've been feeling kicks for a couple weeks now - and despite my MANY efforts to get Dan to feel them, he hadn't been able to (a combination of the kicks being small, Dan being impatient, and baby [...]

We started off this week with our 21 week doctor's appointment and ultrasound - which was a blast. Up until now I both longed for and dreaded doctor's appointments because while I love getting to hear the heartbeat, I worked myself up for each appointment, convincing myself something would be wrong. At my 16 week [...]

Well folks - this week is 20 weeks - and you know what that means? It means it's baby Richards' half birthday! She will (hopefully) be making her way into the world in just 20 more weeks. We're halfway home! Being half way done with this pregnancy makes me both really really excited and also [...]

As I'm sure most of you already know via Facebook, etc. - Dan and I went for our 18 week ultrasound last week and found out baby Richards is a girl! It was really nice because we were able to do the ultrasound on vacation in Florida, and were allowed to bring my parents, and [...]

So yesterday I'm in a meeting at work and the lower right side of stomach starts like, twitching. Not visibly, but on the inside it feels like a little muscle spasm or something and since all kinds of bizarre things have happened with my body lately - a muscle spasm or little twitch doesn't seem that out [...]

This week is number 17 (only 3 more weeks to the halfway mark - how crazy is that!?) and I'm pretty sure baby is doing some serious growing. I know this because a) my uterus, ligaments and abdominal muscles ALL hurt and b) I'm now gaining weight like it's my job. Despite 13-14 weeks of [...]

At 16 weeks I finally got to hear the heartbeat of our little goldfish baby (actually, baby is much bigger than a goldfish by now which is INSANE)!! Before yesterday's appointment I had only seen the heartbeat as a flicker on an ultrasound screen. This week my midwife used the doppler machine to listen to the [...]

This week is number 15 and by far the most exciting thing that happened this week is I started feeling little tiny flutters that I'm told could be the baby moving around! So, so, so cool. Even if it's just a muscle spasm or something, I don't care because it's way more fun to think [...]