The Home Stretch

11/6/09 

With less than a month to go now, the kicks and punches from growing muscles are getting stronger every day, and if you're like me, so is the desire to get your babe out of your belly and into your arms. 

Every mother I talked to says the last month is the longest, and that's because of any number of things—the weight, the lack of sleep, fatigue, heartburn, and swelling. But rather than focus on the increasing physical pressures, I am opting for counting every day as a moment closer to seeing my peanut and introducing it to its first tastes of the world.