Author: Jackie Pick

Jackie Pick is a former teacher and current writer living in the Chicago area. She is a contributing author to multiple anthologies, including Multiples Illuminated, So Glad They Told Me: Women Get Real about Motherhood, Here in the Middle, as well as the and the literary magazines The Sun and Selfish. She received Honorable Mention from the Mark Twain House and Museum for her entry in the Royal Nonesuch Humor Writing Competition. Jackie is a contributing writer at Humor Outcasts, and her essays have been featured on various online sites including McSweeney's, Belladonna Comedy, Mamalode, The HerStories Project, and Scary Mommy. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, Jackie is co-creator and co-writer of the award-winning short film Fixed Up, and a proud member of the 2017 Chicago cast of Listen To Your Mother.

Apologies — Bumpdate 29w 4 d

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So very very sick.  The world is hazy and I’m feelin’ lazy. 🙂

Baby is fine…measuring rather big for her age (although these measurements are notoriously inaccurate.)  I put on 6 pounds in a month, and for the first time in two pregnancies, my doctor commented on my weight being “a little more than I like to see.”  Very very hard for me to hear.

And my own damned fault, I suppose.  

Other than that, I feel beautiful for the first time in this pregnancy…minus the whole “I wanna die from exhaustion and the flu” thing I’ve got going on.

I miss writing. I am still here. Waiting.