Almost There: Comfort Food and Sleep. And Pillows. Lots of Pillows.

Phew. Well, today marks the 35th week of this pregnancy, which means we've made it as far as we did last time -- Luke was born on this day of his gestation. And since this baby is a girl, I'm expecting her to be (at least) slightly more developed than he was at the same point. I feel like I could explode at any moment but there are still, potentially, four weeks until the scheduled c-section. Until then, as much as possible, my plans are to sleep and to eat. And then to sleep and eat some more. Maybe that's why these pillows caught my eye:

From the Etsy shop Diffraction Fiber. They also make these newborn footprints pillows, which are very nice, but would be even better if they could somehow use the infant's actual footprint:

Comments

[123oleary]

Congratulations on hitting the 35 week mark. Wonderful. And I'm sure you'll figure out a way to make those newborn footprint pillows.

I haven't read the Nesbit bio that you mentioned but did look up this interesting profile:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2004/oct/09/featuresreviews.guardianreview26. I've just started on The Children's Book now. The next thing I'm hoping for is the Jean Rhys bio, although it sounds properly depressing.

[Melissa]

Congratulations on 35 weeks! And on finding PB&J pillows-- who wouldn't need a set of those?

[123oleary]

Thinking about bios - have you ever read the one about the woman who wrote The Lonely Doll?

http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Life-Lonely-Doll-Search/dp/0805076123

[Steph]

Thanks, Melissa!

And yes, Sara, I bet the Jean Rhys bio will be depressing. I had to put down the collected works -- each novel seemed to get progressively more depressing. I've got her autobio (Smile Please) upstairs and I've started it but I'm almost afraid to pick it up.

And I just reserved that Lonely Doll bio, thanks for mentioning it. Looks interesting.

[123oleary]

Actually the Lonely Doll bio (Dare Wright? Was that her name?) is maybe one of the more depressing things I've ever read. So my recommendation is a bit like that old Ellen De G. bit: "This is awful- taste it!"
Have you ever come across a book called Women of the Left Bank? (http://www.amazon.com/Women-Left-Bank-Shari-Benstock/dp/0292790406 ) I got it along with a good anthology called That Kind of Woman (http://www.amazon.com/That-Kind-Woman-Bronte-Adams/dp/0881849634/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243038904&sr=1-4) about a hundred years ago when I worked in a very good bookstore called Ficciones. The two together give a very good overview of the period/milieu that Rhys was writing in alongside H.D., Djuana Barnes, Gertrude Stein and others.