Asher's Birth Story
Asher's Birth Story (On the six month anniversary of his birth) By his mother (Super lengthy for posterity and also I am chronically verbose: sorry.) My pregnancy with Asher, like conception, was smooth and easy. I had no nausea at all, no fatigue, no food nor smell aversions, and cravings for mostly healthy food (salads, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, and fruits of all kinds -- I ate two oranges a day in the second trimester and a pear a day in the third). I loved my bump and how it looked (for the most part -- except for certain teary moments in the third trimester when I cried to Alman about being bloated and unattractive, and how none of my clothes fit me anymore. I blame the hormones). I did have to give up doing yoga in my fourth month of pregnancy, because I had started feeling breathless (baby was pushing up on my diaphragm) and I didn't want to exert myself. And I had swelling in my feet towards the end of my third trimester (on one occasion, after a long day at
