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Kendra

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About Me

I'm sure I'll add more to this eventually. I'm in my twenties, married to a wonderful guy, and am loving staying at home with our little guy, born 1/22/08; I love music and baking, and barbecuing among other things. For more about my every day life, let me know. Also feel free to check out my personal journal , pregnancy/motherhood journal , or our family web page etc.
Win the Essential Babywearing Stash from Along for the Ride (one Beco Butterfly, one Hotsling baby pouch, one BabyHawk Mei Tai, one Zolowear Ring Sling, and one Gypsy Mama Wrap)

My Interests

photography, cooking/baking/barbecuing, sewing, rpg's, vintage muscle cars, women's health issues, family planning, patient advocacy, music, massage, anime, reading, mythology, spirituality, philosophy, fantasy, erotica, storms, baby-making, pregnancy, breastfeeding, cloth diapering, hyperemesis gravidarum . . .


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Music:

Many different types, genre's, bands, etc.to name a few: Lollipop Lust Kill, NiN, Ramones, Misfits, Flogging Molly, The Cure, David Bowie, Modest Mouse, Antigone Rising, Carly Simon, Carole King, Dave Matthews, Depeche Mode, Frank Sinatra, Funker Vogt, Jack Off Jill, KMFDM, Moloko, Professional Murder Music, Rod Stewart, Wolfsheim, and the list goes on and on . . . .

Movies:

This list isn't a complete one either: Donny Darko, Hellraiser series, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, SLC Punk, some Quentin Terantino, lots of Sci-Fi, horror, and anime.

Television:

anything on Discovery. Discovery Health, TLC, History Channel, or anything like that.

Books:

forgive me here, i don't read a lot of fiction or anything of that nature anymore: The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Giver, some historical fiction, Terry Pratchett esp the Discworld series. The rest of my bookshelves are overflowing with books on philosophy, religious studies of various denominations, etc, lots of books and textbooks on health, esp womens health and alternative treatments.

Heroes:

My Mom

My Blog

Babies

Anyone know how to get them to sleep?  And stay that way for more than 10 mins?  Preferably in their crib and not on mom?*sigh*
Posted by Kendra on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:56:00 PST

1 month old!

I honestly can't believe how quickly this has flown by.  This time last month, I had just gotten Trenton back from the nursery and just could not look away from him.  His well baby check wen...
Posted by Kendra on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:46:00 PST

Birth Annoucement!!!!

(From Brian H., Husband to Kendra H.)   It is with no small amount of pride and pleasure that I announce the birth of our first born son, Trenton Alexander.  Born at 1:33 PM after approxim...
Posted by Kendra on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:57:00 PST

38w3d

Well, tonight is our last night as parents-tp-be, at least parents-to-be in our own home.  In less than 12 hours I will be hooked to an IV with synthetic hormones to help kick start labor to tr...
Posted by Kendra on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:44:00 PST

37 wks 5 days

Sorry for the lack of updates lately.  I've been holed up a bit just waiting for things to start and trying not to go crazy.The baby showers were wonderful.  I could not have asked for bet...
Posted by Kendra on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:46:00 PST

36 weeks

From BabyCenter:How your baby's growing: Your baby is still packing on the pounds  at the rate of about an ounce a day. She now weighs almost 6 pounds (like a crenshaw melon) and is more than 18 1/...
Posted by Kendra on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:11:00 PST

35 wks

From BabyCenter: "How your baby's growing:Your baby doesn't have much room to maneuver now that he's over 18 inches long and tips the scales at 5 1/4 pounds (pick up a honeydew). Because it's so snu...
Posted by Kendra on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:57:00 PST

Recent Happenings (pregnancy related)

Due to some unforeseen circumstances, the links to our photo album and baby blog, etc are currently down.  Don't ask, but they *SHOULD* be back up later this week.  For the moment, I will le...
Posted by Kendra on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:41:00 PST

Umm . . .

There is a lot in my head, floating and bumping around at the moment.  Some of it I was wondering about previously, most of it has been brought (more) to the forefront over the past weekend (don'...
Posted by Kendra on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 03:54:00 PST

New Photos!

I finally got up the new ultrasound photos and last weeks "belly" picture too.  There are some in my albums here, but, as usual, more in our family picasa. Also, an update with info from out peri...
Posted by Kendra on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:12:00 PST