The (NOT SO) Skinny Girl

SO now that I have had my first doctor visit- which was an experience in itself- I now know when we'll be graced by our Coron-ial : Dec 10th! My birthday is Dec 9th. Yippee, birthday buddies with my baby. Side note, it popped into my head that now I know when my parents were doing the dirty to make me. That's how bored I am in quarantine, that thoughts like that surface. GROSS. In other news, the U.S. death toll from the Coronavirus outbreak has topped 75,000 and is projected to keep rising at a rate as high as 3,000 deaths a day in the coming weeks. My Garden State continues to be one of the nation’s biggest hot spots with 133,635 confirmed cases and 8,801 known deaths as of May 7. Also, there's a freeze warning for tonight in my county- Mother Nature is losing her mind, it's probably going to snow a little bit IN MAY. Maybe this is in retaliation to the state and county parks being ordered to close...maybe. Let me tell you about the doctor visit. Last time I was ...

So we all joked about it when the 'stay at home orders' were put in place- That there would be a baby boom in 9-12 months. We'd have a vaccine and a new generation at the same time. A generation born into a fearful, cautious world with masks and gloves and very small social circles. As someone who suffered through infertility for 3 YEARS the first time around, as someone who had extremely high anxiety, as someone who had a major panic attack within the first 3 days of 'lock-down'.... I never thought that we would NAIL IT in the first few weeks of quarantine. But here we are. We did it. We are having a Corona-baby, and Quarantine kiddo, generation Coron-ial. A little back story, we have been 'not trying' but open to another child for at least the last 9 months. We are not practicing any form of birth control and not strictly sticking to a 'trying to conceive' schedule (people who have dealt with infertility do this. it sucks but it works). As a ...