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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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]