Archive for 'All Akimbo' Category
All Akimbo: Light bulb moment
By Kim Blakely, mama to 2 We were blissfully happy when we finally got to introduce Moxie to our families and the next two days in the hospital are a blur of oohs, aahs, and wondrous gazes. Moxie had a gift for her brother – amazing that she had the presence of mind to shop [...]
All Akimbo: The Birth Story
By Kim Blakely, mama of 2 Moxie has been around for eight weeks, and I haven’t yet told y’all anything about the day she arrived … so here goes. My husband and I arrived at Labor and Delivery just after 5 a.m., and I was worried because we were late. I have no idea why, [...]
All Akimbo: Vacuum cleaner bliss
By Kim Blakely, mama to Mojo and Moxie Oh, people. I’ve been gearing up to tell you about the day our daughter was born – some funny things happened, along with some not-so-funny things – but this is just not the week to do it. I’m exhausted! Moxie continues to live up to her name, [...]
All Akimbo: This girl’s got moxie!
By Kim Blakely, mama to ‘Mojo’ and ‘Moxie’ I have a new mantra. I’m blessed to have a baby girl with such healthy lungs. I chant it over and over while I bounce and sway all over the house with her in my arms. Honestly, with as much moving around as I’ve been doing, I [...]
All Akimbo: Wash, lather, rinse, repeat!
By Kim Blakely, brand-new mama of two What’s it called when you’re living through something you’re pretty sure you’ve lived through before? (These darn mommy hormones are fogging my thinker … er, brain.) Oh, yeah – it’s déjà vu. My babies looked so much alike as newborns that when my daughter was born just over [...]
All Akimbo: Meet the baby!
Welcome to Julianna Harper, born at 8:21 a.m. on Thursday, June 4! Parents Matt and All Kimbo Kim are very proud of their sweet baby girl who weighed 7 pounds, 13 ounces. Sources close to the situation say Julianna picked out an Iron Man action figure for her big brother, Mojo. He thinks she has [...]
All Akimbo: Tomorrow is D-day!
By Kim Blakely, Motherlode mama blogger Am I ready? I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard that question in the last couple of weeks. At 5:30 tomorrow morning, I will report to labor and delivery at the hospital, and a mere two hours later I will have a c-section. Then, God-willing, I will [...]
All Akimbo: Dispatch from the couch
By Kim Blakely, soon-to-be mama of 2 I felt kind of lousy all of Mother’s Day weekend and on Monday (which, incidentally, was my 39th birthday) I dragged myself up and around to finish only what I had to. On Tuesday, I had a head-splitting headache, but I told myself the pain was probably the [...]
All Akimbo: Incision decision
By Kim Blakeley, Mojo’s expectant mama I had a doctor’s appointment this morning, which was almost boringly routine, save for the fact that I got a [very quick] surprise ultrasound to check the position of mah bebe. I thought I was feeling an elbow on the right side of my belly, just below the spot [...]
All Akimbo: All cats go to heaven
By Kim Blakely, animal lover and Mojo’s mama Much of the fretting I’ve done about how Mojo would be hurt over the loss of a pet seems to have been for naught. Or maybe all my fretting just ensured that he would be prepared. I don’t know. Either way, he’s handling it all just fine. [...]
All Akimbo on VBACs
By Kim Blakely Just so you know, I’m not the kind of pregnant lady who has written up a detailed birth plan, complete with a list of musical accompaniment. I’m uptight and opinionated about some things, and I like to plan, probably more than the next woman, but for some strange reason, giving birth is [...]
All Akimbo: Help?
By Kim Blakely, mama to Mojo Mojo has been counting everything in our house lately – we have three televisions, he’ll note, or we have four sinks and three beds. There are four people here, if you count the baby, he’ll explain, and there are four pets: a dog, two cats, and a fish. Except [...]
All Akimbo: Mama Mia!
By Kim Blakely, mama to Mojo You know how, when you have a precious new baby, you just can’t wait to have him or her call you ‘Mama’? And how when he or she finally does say it, you swoon, falling in love with him or her again, 1,000 times over? Please tell me I’m [...]
All Akimbo: Two to tango
By Kimberly Blakely, soon-to-be mama of two Much has been said in the last few weeks about the “Octo Mom,” Nadya Suleman. (For the record, this nickname actually kind of bugs me – makes her sound Medusa-esque.) I’m not going to get into the debate about whether she should have undergone selective termination or whether [...]
All Akimbo: When naming a rose just stinks
By Kim Blakely, Mojo and ???’s mama Editor’s note: We feel Kim’s pain and bet you other mamas do, too. So that’s why we’re enlisting your help to Name That Baby. Please submit name ideas for Kim’s baby girl (due in June) and we’ll compile a list for her. Maybe we’ll just turn this into [...]
All Akimbo: A big raw nerve
By Kim Blakely, pregnant blogging mama This time last year, I was fresh from the doctor’s appointment where my doctor recommended that I have surgery to address my infertility issues. For the two weeks after I heard those dreaded words, I wished for a miracle – a positive pregnancy test that would keep me out [...]
All Akimbo: She’s having a … !
By Kim Blakely, pregnant mama blogger Remember this baby I’m carrying? It’s a whirly, swirly, girly girl!! We went in for the big anatomical scan today, and naturally the perinatologist went over every part of the baby’s body in great detail – the heart, the stomach, the brain, the spine, even counted the toes. We [...]
All Akimbo: ‘Wow, I’m pregnant!’
By Kim Blakely Wahoo! The fog is lifting. I’m starting to feel like the old me again … only pregnant. Morning sickness (which for me was more like all-day, with a special emphasis on night, sickness) has mostly gone away, and although I still feel exhausted much of the time I’m not so tired that [...]
All Akimbo: Is this normal?
By Kim Blakely, Mojo’s conflicted mama This may come as a surprise, but … I’m feeling conflicted. Even if you’re not surprised, I am. For two and a half years I thought I would be thrilled to get a positive pregnancy test. And I was … except that I was worried about whether the pregnancy [...]
All Akimbo: Baby picture!
By Kim Blakely, pregnant mama I was so nervous about my Monday-morning ultrasound on Sunday night that I could hardly sleep. Well, that’s not exactly true … I slept like a log until about 2 a.m., then I was wide-awake until 5 a.m., only to finally fall back into a deep slumber until the alarm [...]