My eye twitch is back. That nagging flutter of my left outer eyelid last reared its ugly, annoying head during the sleep-deprived days of third year anesthesia residency and ICU call nights. Before that, I remember its presence while frantically finishing laboratory experiments and writing my …
Childbirth: The Ultimate Exercise in Going with the Flow
Witness the transformation I was 37 weeks pregnant and had just completed a busy Monday in the OR, my last scheduled shift before maternity leave. After consulting both my regular OB and a high-risk OB specialist, the plan was to induce labor at 38 weeks due to my significant swelling and …
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Comparisons: An Easy Trap
"Comparison is the thief of joy."- Theodore Roosevelt We all fall victim to comparing ourselves to someone else at one time or another. However, I've noticed that pregnancy is an especially easy time to fall into the trap of comparison-making. My first case-in-point: My belly, the most obvious and …
Coloring for Adults
From this To this When I was a little girl, we went to visit my grandparents in another state. While there, I entered a coloring contest at the local shopping mall. I said to my grandmother, "Now grandma, when I win, you can just send me my prize." This prompted laughter from the …
Book Review: Mindset by Carol Dweck
Although I read it a while back, this book cannot escape my mind; I keep seeing it referenced in articles and hearing it talked about in interviews. Seems fitting to share with you! In Mindset - The New Psychology of Success, Carol Dweck identifies two types of predominant patterns of thinking in …
A New Kind of Body Confidence
As goal-oriented, driven people who are sometimes prone to perfectionism, body image can be a source of stress for many of us. Leave it to pregnancy to completely change mine! I have always been known for my tall slenderness, a substantial part of my ego (for more on what makes up one's ego and …
