Don’t get me wrong, there was never a fiber in my being that thought that pregnancy would be easy. Or fun. I figured I’d get sick and gain a bunch of weight and have to quit guzzling wine every night. Many of my friends have kids and they’ve talked generally about pregnancy but in a […]
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Our son, Humphrey, was born in Vietnam which meant that one of the first things we had to do was apply for his US passport. And while there are plenty of passport photo studios in Saigon, most of them are not prepared to handle a squirming baby that can’t yet sit up on his own.
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Did you think pregnancy sucked? I did. I wrote an entire post about the things that sucked about pregnancy that no one told me. When I posted it on Facebook, most of my comments in response were “ha ha just wait until you give birth”. Wait, what? But I’ll have a cute little baby and
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Most people thought that we were crazy when we first told them that we had decided to give birth in Vietnam. They asked, “Isn’t it a third-world country?”, and “What are their hospitals like?”. “Do you have insurance?” We even questioned our sanity a few times – especially when I was laying on the operating
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If you are pregnant or trying to get pregnant, you are probably prepared for a relatively uncomfortable 9 months. And if you have any plans to travel during pregnancy, it will undoubtedly be even worse. Your belly will be getting bigger, you can’t eat certain foods, hotel beds aren’t nearly as comfortable as your bed
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Are you shopping for your adventure-loving friends who are soon-to-be parents and need some inspiration as to what to buy? As a pregnant woman living in Vietnam and traveling around SE Asia, I have a very long, running list of the items that I’d love to own. From products that would make long flights more
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