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.

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The day ran away from me…allow me, please, a quicky post as water boils for dinner.

Water boiling seems to be an appropriate accompaniment for discussion of a baby sort.

  • Just had an OB/GYN appointment. My cervix is completely over and draped around the cervix…like an squid sucker latched onto the inside of your mouth…you know, if you order squid in a restaurant. Or if you accidentally get one in your mouth when swimming.
  • Probable c-section. That’s fine.
  • Will need monthly ultrasounds to make sure the placenta doesn’t attach to and then squirm out of my prior c-section scar. Ewwww. Let’s hope there is no Cake Wreck-type of reproduction of that phenomenon.
  • Bleeding is likely after 30 weeks.
  • Need a shit-ton of blood work done to rule out clotting issues (related to leg problems)
  • May need hysterectomy.

Did I mention Baby is still a girl?