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	<title>Narratively Speaking</title>
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		<title>Nesting and such</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The term &#8220;nesting&#8221; always struck me as a little irritating, and I used to wince when people used it. However, now that I am less than ten weeks away from giving birth, I understand the instinct behind it. I have been very busy with work and family obligations the past month, and it is nice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://caraford.com/blog/2010/07/nesting-and-such/</link>
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		<title>Final stretch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, close to the final, if you consider the third trimester to be the final stretch! I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m already 28-plus weeks along. Things are going well. At my most recent doctor&#8217;s appointment, I took the &#8220;dreaded&#8221; glucose test to see whether or not I had gestational diabetes. I put &#8220;dreaded&#8221; in quotation marks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://caraford.com/blog/2010/06/final-stretch/</link>
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		<title>Time flies!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The saying &#8220;time flies when you&#8217;re having fun&#8221; holds especially true during pregnancy. It&#8217;s hard to believe that we&#8217;re past the halfway mark, at nearly 23 weeks! Since our last doctor&#8217;s appointment, we learned that we will be having a little girl! Nick and I are very excited and I am glad we decided to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://caraford.com/blog/2010/05/time-flies/</link>
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		<title>Baby&#8217;s first concert</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week Nick and I went to the Atoms for Peace concert at the Fox Theatre in Oakland. This was the first time either of us has been to the Fox, and viewing the inside was worth the price of admission alone! I wish the pictures on my phone turned out better. Everything was ornate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://caraford.com/blog/2010/04/babys-first-concert/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m not fat&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;m big boned!&#8221; (One of my favorite Eric Cartman lines on South Park.) Seriously, though, in the beginning of pregnancy, it&#8217;s hard not to feel fat, and also hard not to wonder if people who don&#8217;t know you are expecting think to themselves, &#8220;Poor thing, she is really letting herself go!&#8221; I know it&#8217;s shallow [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://caraford.com/blog/2010/04/im-not-fat/</link>
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		<title>Worry be gone?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I never imagined a side effect of pregnancy would be that I worry less, but as I cruise along comfortably in the second trimester, I am surprised at how laid back I am about certain things that typically have me all worked up. Don&#8217;t get me wrong: I can still rile myself up at a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://caraford.com/blog/2010/04/worry-be-gone/</link>
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		<title>Happy Spring!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is the first day of spring, my favorite season. I enjoy spring, in part, because my birthday falls in April. I also enjoy it because it is one of the most dramatic and hopeful transitions, from the icy cold freeze to the warm, breezy thaw. Living in California, where winter consists of a few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://caraford.com/blog/2010/03/happy-spring/</link>
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		<title>Well hello there</title>
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		<link>http://caraford.com/blog/2010/01/192/</link>
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		<title>Happy New Year folks!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another year, another opportunity to resolve one&#8217;s &#8220;issues.&#8221; I&#8217;ve always been a bit skeptical of the whole &#8220;new year&#8217;s resolution&#8221; thing, the same way I am skeptical of fad diets where the only way to maintain an &#8220;ideal&#8221; weight is via cabbage soup. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, cabbage soup can be tasty from time to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://caraford.com/blog/2010/01/happy-new-year-folks/</link>
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