Alison Jutzi Talks Amongst Herself

I can't say I wasn't warned. Everyone told me to  sleep while I could in preparation for parenthood. And I thought I had slept enough. I diligently stayed in bed an additional hour whenever I could and stored the extra sleep in Mason jars in our bedroom closet. But, guys? I ran out. I didn't think I'd need this much. Felix isn't the expert sleeper Remy was (and I say was because Remy, the sleep-through-the-night-at-five-months baby, magically transformed into a Crappy McNosleeps about six months ago) so it's been awhile since I went to sleep on one day and woke up at least six hours into the next one.  Sometimes I daydream of this past July when I went away with friends for two nights in a row and I slept in until 8am each morning! 8am!!! And this Tina Fey line from Date Night , in response to Steve Carrell's character asking if she ever fantasizes about other men, really resonates with me now: "if anything, I fantasize about being a...

Today is the due date for our bundle of joy, but I don't know that he got the memo.  I wouldn't be surprised if this pregnancy ended in an induction, like my first one did.  Not to brag, but I'm pretty sure I have a super comfy uterus. This is how pregnancy number two has gone: Week 5 - Week 20 Tried to ignore it as much as possible in order to save my energy for the final and what I know to be long months. Week 20-30 Emotional roller coaster. Crazy mood swings and crying jags. Not fun. Dreamt of red wine. Weeks 31-40 Happily much more emotionally stable.  Felt resigned. Just trying to stay low to the ground and get through it. ...so I wrote the above on January 6th and never posted it. Then on the 8th I had a baby so I've been pretty busy with that. Felix Collin Jutzi Sullivan (or Flixster, as I like to call him) was born rather quickly on the evening of Wednesday, January 8th, 2014. The second epidural of my life was lovely, thank you, and t...