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	<description>After Having a Baby, I'm a Real Mother Now</description>
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		<title>No Nips, Please</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a product on the market that you probably haven&#8217;t heard of. Unless you&#8217;re a pregnant or nursing woman, are very good friends with pregnant or nursing woman, or have the unfortunate circumstance of having a cubicle next to a loudmouthed pregnant or nursing woman, you would have no reason whatsoever to be familiar with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellyupblog.wordpress.com&blog=1593028&post=259&subd=bellyupblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks, Tammy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the ever-changing moods of the toddler, there are an inordinate amount of fits and poutiness in the house right now. A few weeks ago, the hubby began cutting the tension by singing, &#8220;Sometimes it&#8217;s hard&#8230;to be&#8230;A WOMAN&#8230;&#8221; I laughed, hated myself for a split second, then spent the rest of the day trying to get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellyupblog.wordpress.com&blog=1593028&post=256&subd=bellyupblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Flux Capacitor Required</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Should you ever wonder what it was like to hang out with yourself as a toddler, you don&#8217;t need to travel back in time. No, all you need to do is have a kid. Watching the toddler gleefully eat chips and dip is like looking in a mirror&#8230;34 years ago.
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		<title>Easy, Yet Totally Unsafe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tennessee annoys me. The entire state is at least 10 years behind in every single trend and technology improvement. Not a week goes by that I am not irritated by the fact that doctors here won&#8217;t work past 5 (noon on Fridays), the goddamn local utilities don&#8217;t have a budget billing program, etc.
As it turns [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellyupblog.wordpress.com&blog=1593028&post=252&subd=bellyupblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, I See</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past week, I have been making homemade sourdough bread. It has become glaringly apparent why people no longer take the time to make bread from scratch: it&#8217;s a colossal pain in the ass. Why do it, then? Well, I&#8217;m not working now, and I&#8217;ve always la-la-loved homemade bread. I&#8217;ve also always been very [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellyupblog.wordpress.com&blog=1593028&post=250&subd=bellyupblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Transformation Is Almost Complete</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I flew to Kansas City to visit a friend of mine. In an attempt to wile away the flight time, I stopped by one of those airport convenience store places to purchase some reading material. After scanning shelf after shelf of crappy magazines, I bought a word search book and a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellyupblog.wordpress.com&blog=1593028&post=248&subd=bellyupblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Encouraging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each week, I receive an e-mail that details what&#8217;s happening with the pregnancy and fetus. It&#8217;s pretty interesting stuff: stats on the baby&#8217;s approximate length, weight, and size as related to an everyday object. This morning&#8217;s missive said the baby is over 15 inches long, weighs around 2.5 pounds, and is the size of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellyupblog.wordpress.com&blog=1593028&post=246&subd=bellyupblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hmm, That Made Me Feel Old But Not Bad About It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, the hubby and I had a date day. We went out to lunch, then cruised over to Nashville&#8217;s big independent record store, Grimey&#8217;s. Aptly named, of course. When we walked in, the sights and smells of every used record store I&#8217;ve ever been in slammed into my 36-going-on-37-year-old self, and I felt equal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellyupblog.wordpress.com&blog=1593028&post=243&subd=bellyupblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the Homestretch&#8230;FINALLY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pregnancy is not a comfortable time for me. I am not one of those really annoying Stepford bitches who proclaim, &#8220;I LOVE being pregnant!&#8221; There is no denying it&#8217;s miraculous: one well-timed romp in the sack, and 40 weeks later, the population has increased by one.
However, with slightly less than 12 weeks to go until [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellyupblog.wordpress.com&blog=1593028&post=241&subd=bellyupblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seriously?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I talked to my dad last week about the toddler&#8217;s increasingly moody behavior. Strangely, my father is brimming with parenting advice, even though through the vast majority of my upbringing, he was at work. Please know I don&#8217;t fault him for this, but to listen to him give me tips on potty training is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellyupblog.wordpress.com&blog=1593028&post=239&subd=bellyupblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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