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This post is weeks behind. That 2.5 week long sinus infection is to blame. Who wants to endure a photo shoot with green slime pouring out of their nose and a midwestern high school marching band parading around their head?

Yeah, no one.

Despite the yucky sinus nonsense, and Sunny’s stream of colds, and coughs, and fevers (ah the joys of life with a toddler), Month 4 has been a good one. No nausea. Some glimpses of spring. A trip to Florida. And, best of all, the opportunity to see our growing Sesame Seed.

I had seen Addison three times by the time I saw the Sesame Seed. With Sunny, I was seeing an OB in Beverly Hills with some super high tech equipment right in her office. I had an ultrasound every appointment. Since she was my first, I had no idea that that was unique (and a bit excessive). It was a very different experience to the care I’m currently receiving with a midwifery practice in Southern Vermont. While the midwives don’t have all the latest medical equipment lying around their office and I have to do my lab work through the general hospital lab, it has been such a laid back, comfortable experience. It helps that I’ve already been through one healthy pregnancy, labor, delivery, and baby, but I am enjoying feeling as though my care providers are trusting my body and the Sesame Seed to do the work we need to do and are only checking in when necessary. If there were complications, I of course would want to seek the kind of care I received in L.A., but since everything is going smoothly thus far (save an ornery thyroid and a lingering sinus infection), the care of midwives is exactly what we need.

Particularly, I am looking forward to the labor and delivery (as much as any woman can look forward to such an experience), as I know I’ll have a team of nurses and care providers that are 100% supportive of my wishes for an unmedicated water birth. That was far far from the case in the 90210 with Sunny. That story is for another post, and I will definitely be writing more about Leboyer as I get closer to my due date.

For now, I’m relishing looking at all the photos of the Sesame Seed squirming and kicking and growing inside me. Sunny has been more engaged than ever with my belly and kisses the baby good morning and says, “Hi, Baby!” It’s unclear how much of this she understands, but she gets much joy in trying to feel her baby sister kick and in enthusiastically proclaiming that she is a “Big Sister!”

Everyday I am grateful to have two healthy growing girls in my life. I don’t ever take that for granted.

As usual, I had to share my favorite outtakes from the shoot, as they are always so much fun. Is Milo, Kate’s pup, not the cutest? Given that his mama is a photographer, he is quite comfortable in front of the camera. ______________________________________________________________________________________

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**Photos: Courtesy of Kate Drew Miller Photography
As always, I cannot thank Kate enough for taking on this project with me. She rocks. Truly.

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