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Ginger fruit bowl and fuck your baby advice
Ginger fruit bowl and fuck your baby advice

SOMETHING MY HUSBAND SAID RECENTLY THAT MAYBE HE SHOULDN'T HAVE:

"I feel great! I got twelve hours of sleep last night!"

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0-6 mos., Most PopularJenny TrueOctober 20, 2017Aches and pains, Baby advice, Breakfast, Ginger, WTF Comments
Jenny and Baby Visit Rose and Dave: Special Bonus Edition
Jenny and Baby Visit Rose and Dave: Special Bonus Edition

Even though my parents were just in San Francisco to meet the baby/Barnacle, I recently took the baby/Barnacle to Evanston, Illinois, to stay with them for 10 days.

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0-6 mos.Jenny TrueOctober 10, 2017Lunch, Rose and Dave, Salad, Salads Comments
Chicken pot pie and WTF breastfeeding
Chicken pot pie and WTF breastfeeding

It's been quite the transition to motherhood or, as I like to call it, Mom Eats Last. Some days it feels like SJ and I are killing it: We get enough sleep, we eat, we shower, the house gets cleaned, the bills get paid, and we leave the house and return to it, all without killing the baby.

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0-6 mos., Most PopularJenny TrueSeptember 13, 2017Breastfeeding, Chicken, Chicken Pot Pie, Dinner, Pie Comments
Breakfast in bed and keeping the baby alive
Breakfast in bed and keeping the baby alive

I've settled on a word for how having a baby makes me feel: peeled.

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0-6 mos., Most PopularJenny TrueAugust 29, 2017Breakfast, Eggs, Newborn Comments
Nicoise-ish salad and WTF I GAVE BIRTH
Nicoise-ish salad and WTF I GAVE BIRTH

So this is what I've been up to: giving birth, better known as simultaneously vomiting into a bag and gushing blood and amniotic fluid out of your vagina onto a hospital bed as you lie on your side butt-naked in front of your husband and a roomful of strangers.

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0-6 mos., Most PopularJenny TrueAugust 7, 2017Baby, Birth, Lunch, SaladComment
Mango plum crumble and WTF 39 1/2 weeks
Mango plum crumble and WTF 39 1/2 weeks

I'm officially on maternity leave THANK THE FUCKING LORD, and just in time: I'm having all the symptoms of end-stage pregnancy.

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PregnancyJenny TrueJuly 19, 2017Crumble, Dessert, Pregnancy, Third trimester Comments
Mom's white soup and the calm before the storm
Mom's white soup and the calm before the storm

Ever since I set a start date for maternity leave (two more weeks!), I've had a rush of energy.

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PregnancyJenny TrueJune 29, 2017Pregnancy, Soup, Third trimester Comments
Middle-of-the-night cookies and fighting with love
Middle-of-the-night cookies and fighting with love

Being 34 weeks pregnant is like having a 30-pound goiter that kicks you. Also, I don't know if you know this, but being very pregnant, being newly married, working two jobs six days a week, and living in a new place is, at times, somewhat stressful.

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PregnancyJenny TrueJune 12, 2017Cookies, Fighting, Third trimester Comments
Anchovy salad and WTF I'm over this
Anchovy salad and WTF I'm over this

I am officially over being pregnant. It happened almost overnight.

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PregnancyJenny TrueJune 1, 2017Pregnancy, Salads Comments
Meaty pasta sauce and don't mind me, I'm just pregnant
Meaty pasta sauce and don't mind me, I'm just pregnant

Next week will mark one year together for me and SJ, my donor (by mutual agreement, he is no longer my "provider of intercourse," as he is not providing very much these days).

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PregnancyJenny TrueMay 16, 2017Pasta, Pregnancy Comments
Lasagna and catching my new husband masturbating in the shower
Lasagna and catching my new husband masturbating in the shower

On Thursday, April 20, SJ and I got married. That day I worked until 2 p.m., threw on my wedding dress in the building's bathroom, and took a Lyft to City Hall.

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Pregnancy, Most PopularJenny TrueMay 1, 2017Dinner, Lasagna, Pregnancy sex, Sex Comments
Chewy coconut cookies and WTF baby blues
Chewy coconut cookies and WTF baby blues

Two weeks ago I moved in with SJ. Hired three guys to load all my stuff, including my coffee table (SJ does not believe in coffee tables -- he calls them "shinbangers" -- so when we want to watch 30 Rock instead of talking to each other, we eat dinner on a piano bench, like highly educated vagrants …

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PregnancyJenny TrueApril 17, 2017Baby blues, Coconut, Cookies, Lists, WTF Comments
Eggplant bruschetta and IDGAF
Eggplant bruschetta and IDGAF

Something weird has been happening: Strangers are noticing my body and reacting to it, and I don't like it. WHAT ARE YOU SMILING AT.

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PregnancyJenny TrueMarch 30, 2017Bruschetta, Dinner, Eggplant, IDGAF Comments
Saturday morning crepes and WTF second trimester
Saturday morning crepes and WTF second trimester

A couple Sundays ago, I lay on my back on SJ's bed (fully clothed -- it's not that kind of a transition) and pressed a stethoscope against my belly -- and the baby kicked the stethoscope!

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PregnancyJenny TrueMarch 21, 2017Breakfast, Crepes, Pregnancy, Second trimester, WTF Comments
Pesto scrambled eggs, Whitney Houston, and life with SJ
Pesto scrambled eggs, Whitney Houston, and life with SJ

All week I've felt like crying. It feels exactly like the low-grade nausea I had during my first trimester, without the nausea. There's no REASON for me to cry, and I DON'T cry, but I FEEL like crying.

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PregnancyJenny TrueMarch 9, 2017Breakfast, Eggs, Pregnancy Comments
Linguine with clams and WTF PREGNANCY MARRIAGE MOVING
Linguine with clams and WTF PREGNANCY MARRIAGE MOVING

I am running on fumes. FUMES, I TELL YOU. In addition to having a full-time job, a part-time job, and a daily commute, this is what I've been doing instead of blogging about millennials, bonding with the heirloom tomato in my uterus, and getting my head around the fact that IN TWENTY-ONE WEEKS I WILL HAVE A SON.

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Pregnancy, Most PopularJenny TrueMarch 2, 2017Dinner, Lists, Pasta, Pregnancy, WTF Comments
Perfect cup of tea and pregnancy weight gain as a former bulimic/anorexic
Perfect cup of tea and pregnancy weight gain as a former bulimic/anorexic

When you're pregnant, all the women who have gone before rally to tell you how their babies ripped apart their vaginas.

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PregnancyJenny TrueJanuary 30, 2017Anorexia, Bulimia, Hot drinks, Pregnancy, Rose, Tea Comments
Midnight snack in Chicago and one day with Rose and Dave
Midnight snack in Chicago and one day with Rose and Dave

I arrive at O'Hare late Wednesday night after 10 hours of travel from San Francisco. Dad picks me up at baggage claim. His first topic of conversation, after greeting me, is everything he's posted recently on Facebook.

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PregnancyJenny TrueJanuary 20, 2017Chicago, Dinner, Pasta, Rose and Dave Comment
Sweet potato salad and WTF Week 13
Sweet potato salad and WTF Week 13

And just like that, I'm in the last week of my first trimester.

No more nausea, no more exhaustion. And last week I got great news: The baby is at low risk for major chromosomal defects (which means the baby is at low risk for ABORTION -- lucky baby!), and ... it's a boy!

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PregnancyJenny TrueJanuary 17, 2017Dinner, Pregnancy, Salads, WTF Comments
Honey rosemary walnuts and we need to talk about pregnancy sex
Honey rosemary walnuts and we need to talk about pregnancy sex

The first time I heard about pregnancy sex was in 2004 when writer friend Michelle Richmond published an article on Salon.com called "Oh baby!: Why didn't anyone tell me that pregnancy sex is amazing?"

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PregnancyJenny TrueJanuary 2, 2017Nuts, Pregnancy, Sex Comments
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