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		<title>On labor, drugs and my delivery dream team &#8211; Part II</title>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2008/02/01/on-labor-drugs-and-my-delivery-dream-team-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(click here to see Part I). I&#8217;d like to dedicate this second installment to my mother and my husband. For putting up with each other. For putting up with me. And for being even more amazing the second time than you were the first time. Looking back over my life, I have made the stark [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On labor, drugs and my delivery dream team &#8211; Part I</title>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2007/02/08/on-labor-drugs-and-my-delivery-dream-team-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 2 weeks after Porter was born, and while still riding my post-partum hormonal high, I finally sat down to write about my childbirth experiences &#8211; both of them. But alas, the sleep deprivation began, and instead of writing flowery prose about contractions and cervical dilation, I became an obsessed lunatic in meticulously documenting each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Chapter</title>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2006/04/16/new-chapter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2006 05:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today officially marks my 42nd week of pregnancy, and the time has finally come to put everyone out of their misery and find out if this child is a boy or a girl. I will be induced first thing tomorrow morning, and with any luck, we will have added a new addition to our family [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NPR: National Public Radio / No Pregnancy Reprieve</title>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2006/04/14/npr-national-public-radio-no-pregnancy-reprieve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2006 17:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wait Wait&#8230; show was utterly awesome. Steve and I were still amazed that someone actually was dumb enough to do a live taping from Humboldt County &#8211; an audience pool not necessarily known for it&#8217;s ability to keep from making animal noises and blurting out answers. If it wasn&#8217;t for editing software we would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consider yourself informed.</title>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2006/04/13/consider-yourself-informed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 16:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fluid looks fine. The baby looks fine. The heartbeat (although wacky due to constant activity) looks fine. I am fine. Stella and Steve are fine. We have made some plans and set some dates. That is all I will say other than, one way or another, by mid week next week there is near [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 287</title>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2006/04/10/day-287/</link>
		<comments>http://walscapades.com/2006/04/10/day-287/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2006 16:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Sweet-Child-Who-Is-Still-In-My-Womb-8-Days-After-Its-Official-Due-Date, Firstly, I don&#8217;t blame you. I blame my body and its inability to realize that preganacy actually has an end point. It did the same thing with your sister who, after 42 weeks and one day finally granted her release from the warm confines of my uterus (but not without some hormonal enticement). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No, still no baby.</title>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2006/04/04/no-still-no-baby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 03:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today officially began the first day of my maternity leave. I am now 3 days overdue with no clear end in sight. Not exactly shocking information. I am facing the realization that this child, much like Stella, will have to be forced from my womb at gunpoint. My mother (1/2 of the Walston labor coaching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Describing this pregnancy based solely in terms of food consumption</title>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2006/03/28/describing-this-pregnancy-based-solely-in-terms-of-food-consumption/</link>
		<comments>http://walscapades.com/2006/03/28/describing-this-pregnancy-based-solely-in-terms-of-food-consumption/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With rare exception, my daily diet includes every item on this list. Oranges: Satsumas, Cara Caras, Ivanhoe Navels (breakfast, snacks) Apples: Pink Ladies (lunchtime, with peanut butter) Peanut Butter: Safeway Organic (breakfast, as sandwich) Hot Dogs: Beeler&#8217;s All Natural (uncured) Pork Hot Dogs (lunch, without bun, with lots of mustard) Sparkling Mineral Water: Crystal Geyser [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If I could just hover&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2006/03/23/if-i-could-just-hover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I stand too long my feet swell. If I sit too long then try to stand up, my pelvis feels like it will explode. What&#8217;s a girl to do? Eat some Thin Mints and take a nap.]]></description>
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		<title>Week 37: Status Report</title>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2006/03/16/week-37-status-report/</link>
		<comments>http://walscapades.com/2006/03/16/week-37-status-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official technical obstetric evaluation: Pregnancy is now considered full term. Size: Officially reached the point where NO ONE questions whether or not I am pregnant. Appetite: Have now officially lost all ability to curb sugar intake &#8211; if it is within a 50 foot radius I will sniff it out and consume it; find myself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week 36</title>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2006/03/04/week-36/</link>
		<comments>http://walscapades.com/2006/03/04/week-36/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2006 04:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Against my better judgment, I am putting these photos on the Internet&#8230; (I retain the right to come to my senses at a later time and remove them forever.)]]></description>
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		<title>Reassuring words from your mother.</title>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2006/03/02/reassuring-words-from-your-mother/</link>
		<comments>http://walscapades.com/2006/03/02/reassuring-words-from-your-mother/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well kid, we are at (t &#8211; 4 weeks). I will be very interested to see if a.) you decide to arrive when the medical professionals and various sonogram machines say you will, b.) if you are able to exit my body in under 10 hours, and c.) whether or not you will go home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gestation-Station, What&#8217;s Your Creation?</title>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2006/01/27/gestation-station-whats-your-creation/</link>
		<comments>http://walscapades.com/2006/01/27/gestation-station-whats-your-creation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Week 9 Week 20 Week 30]]></description>
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		<title>The second time around: What it all means.</title>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2006/01/21/the-second-time-around-what-it-all-means/</link>
		<comments>http://walscapades.com/2006/01/21/the-second-time-around-what-it-all-means/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am now on the 2-week rotation with my doctor, wherein every two weeks I get the enviable task of peeing in cup and getting weighed. Every girl should wish for as much. It is all the great lead up to my highly anticipated task of having to squeeze the equivalent of a Ford Pinto [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High as a kite on sugar.</title>
		<link>http://walscapades.com/2005/12/15/high-as-a-kite-on-sugar/</link>
		<comments>http://walscapades.com/2005/12/15/high-as-a-kite-on-sugar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am scheduled to go in for my gestational diabetes test sometime in the first week or two of January, and it is going to be nothing short of a miracle if I actually pass this thing. Even though I passed just fine last time, and it is a routine test that every pregnant woman [...]]]></description>
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