This month, since I’m currently in the Midwestern part of the US in the final leg of my “11:11” tour, I didn’t get my pre-natal check-up in China. So, I decided that I should give myself a check-up and let you know how things are going in the general sense. You can be my pre-natal nurses/doctors from afar and give…   …read more.

I’ve missed two whole weeks of photographing my belly. That’s what hectic touring will do! These last two weeks have been INSANE and I can’t express how happy I am that I’m poised to step on a plane tomorrow to head back to my partner, pillow and peace. No more hotels, no more road travel, and home cooking! Don’t get…   …read more.

I’m back from the tour and sitting in my apartment in Beijing. Now I can say firmly that I’m once again “Preggers In China”! I’m so happy to be home. I can’t express it in words, not fully anyway. I’m really a person who is quite happy in the quiet of home, in my own world, and without a lot…   …read more.

So yesterday I went to my first La Leche League meeting here in Beijing. It was just around the corner from my house at a local hospital and so I walked there. The English meeting is held on the last Friday afternoon of every month from 1:30-3:30pm. I went alone. When I arrived, there were only five other women in the…   …read more.

I have been home now for just over two weeks and I’d like to state for the record that inertia is amazing. It’s the property that keeps an object (or a person) moving and, likewise, the property that keeps an object (or me) standing still. Once a speeding bullet stops, it lodges. I am truly not serving my surname right…   …read more.

So, I’m nearly 32 weeks and counting. Last week, when I went to my pre-natal, I failed to paint a picture of what I looked like: I was wearing Guo Jian’s baggiest jeans and I could only do them up to the second button. They’re also too long for me and so they were rolled up twice at the bottom…   …read more.

So, I’ve been trying to write this blog entry for about 6 months now. I started it as “Things I Like About My Pregnant Body” because I was trying to be positive about all of the physical changes, especially in those first four months when I felt especially disgusting. It was a tactic to push myself towards the light, to…   …read more.

As I head to the end of my 34th week, I realize that I have lots to report regarding Little Spark and our soon-to-be expanded family… Last Sunday, our community here in Beijing threw us a baby shower. It was officially the first time that anyone’s ever thrown me a shower (of any kind) and I was so touched. I…   …read more.

I am one day from 36 weeks pregnant. My due date is January 1st and so when I crept into December this week, I felt a little tingly at the thought of it just being one month away <gasp!> … ONE MONTH! Pregnancy is almost over (give or take a few weeks) and I’m soon going to meet Little Spark!…   …read more.

Several years ago now, back when I was still living in Toronto in fact, a friend changed my whole world when it came to sushi. You see, I have been a vegetarian (of varying degrees) now for twenty-two years. Even before I stopped eating meat, though, I never ate seafood or fish, (unless they were frozen fish sticks as a…   …read more.