Comments on: Nathaniel James

By: Giselle

Giselle — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:50:40 +0000

Congrats Teresa! I read your book while on vacation – and three months prego. I couldn’t stand all that lovey dovey crap and your book was right on target with me. I really needed to read your book and your experience to come full circle with my pregnancy. As a career woman I was really scared how this was going to affect my life and how I was going to react.

I read the final chapters while on a plane, waiting for take off, with possibly the most children on board I’ve EVER seen, ready for an 8 hour flight back to the US. The kids were crying in unison, walking, crawling, one was tugging on my husband’s arm, one kept patting my head from the aisle behind me. As I tried to finish your book, and read your emotional transformation from the mom you swore you’d never be – to the one you did in fact become – I saw myself doing the same. And I cried. And cried. And that’s when I realized that my trip back home was more than just physical. I was going to be a mom. Trust me – I needed to read your experience much more than most other women.

Thank you. I’m having a little girl in February and I’m SO EXCITED! Hope she has my hair.

By: Cat Shively

Cat Shively — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:41:12 +0000

Teresa,
Congrats on the baby. He is gorgeous. My dauther is about 3 weeks younger than your son.
Very excited for you and totally digging the book.
Enjoy the little man while he’s still little and keep on writing.
This is great!!!!
Cat

By: lgal

lgal — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:07:54 +0000

Just wanted to share this w/ you…. the international ceserean network (ICAN) is a great commuity for women recoverng from (days, months, years after) c-sections and planning for future births.
http://blog.ican-online.org/
take care
-l

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 03:38:57 +0000

Teresa,

Thanks for bringing back the humor to the whole subject of childbirth. My son is now 16 months and I have another one on the way and I have to say it seems much harder this time knowing everything I will have to go through in the coming months. I had an easy pregnancy but the labor was 60 hours long and ended in an emergency c-section. I totally related to the PTSD comment it made me feel slightly better about what I will be going through all over in the next 6 months or so. Thanks!!!

By: Nicola

Nicola — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:00:14 +0000

Any tips for myself as I am thinking about working on a weblog like this?

By: Lauren Miller

Lauren Miller — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:07:44 +0000

Hi!
When I launched my blog a couple months ago, yours was the first I added to my blogroll . I know you get a million “please check out my blog!” comments, but if you’d be up for it, I’d love for you to write your “detour story” for my blog, embrace the detour (http://embracingthedetour.com). I am in the midst of trying to balance blog, book and baby… specifically, trying to write and finish a novel in the first 100 days of my baby’s life (I am on day #54). Thought you might have some advice/insight, or at least some sympathetic words. I, like you, DETEST the term mommy blogger and hope to god no one uses it to describe my blog. anyway, if you’d be into writing something for my blog, I’d love to have you. and if not, just wanted to say hi and i love exploiting my baby. both your blog and the actual act of it.

By: Alyssa

Alyssa — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:31:14 +0000

Teresa, I’ve been following your blog at the advice of my brother, and have appreciated, so much, your wit and humor throughout my own pregnancy. I just had own baby – William – two weeks ago, and like you, can’t believe how dopey in love I am with him. Like Buster, he was born via C-section (unplanned), and again, like you, I can believe how gnarly the surgery was and how long recovery is forecast. I hope you are healing well, and that nuzzling your baby’s fuzzy head continues to help. It certainly does for me. All the best, and many congrats!

By: rachel

rachel — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:53:42 +0000

thank you so much for this blog posting. the last 2 paragraphs perfectly encapsulate how i feel about having had a baby!!!!

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:59:27 +0000

Please post/blog more about the C-Section. I just scheduled one!!

By: Teresa Strasser

Teresa Strasser — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:54:15 +0000

First of all, congratulations and good luck.
My ring is a man-made diamond, which is chemically and optically identical to a diamond, only it doesn’t strip the environment, fund bloody civil wars, engage child labor or sucker you into paying for what is essentially a valueless hunk or rock. But that’s just my opinion – do your research. Diamonds only became engagement rings when DeBeers had too many of them to unload and hired a PR firm to convince us that diamonds were “forever.”
My stone is from Gemesis — they only do canary yellow for now, but I love mine. The Mister had a jeweler design a ring with a yellow man made in the center.
Let me know how it goes!
t