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This is probably the most revealing picture I will ever post of myself on the Internet. Look at my belly! I'm coming up on 36 weeks now; in this picture I'm at 31. I officially have the pregnant lady waddle, and getting from a sitting to standing position is way harder than I ever realized it could be. Sometimes she kicks so hard that I actually double over -- this gives Mike a small heart attack every time it happens. (I'm so glad she's strong, but damn...she's really strong.)

As I get closer and closer to my baby's birth, my body changes more dramatically by the day. I'm tiny-boned and have practically no body fat when I'm not pregnant, so I've had a petite pregnancy, and it turns out people LOVE a skinny pregnant women. Strangers consistently approach me to tell me how great my body looks, and I have mixed feelings about it. I try to take compliments as compliments and just leave it there, but honestly, all of our weird social body issues extend to pregnancy too, and that kind of freaks me out. So here's my pregnancy reality check.

Katie is exploring what motherhood may mean to her down the road, and went straight to the source — her own mother — for a quick question and answer session!

So I've done it. I've outed myself as a Jew with baptized children.

Parenthood lends itself heavily to cliché because we each experience similar events, things that have occurred again and again to parents for generations…

Jesse with his kickass son, Miles My wife and I have always lived a fairly uncomplicated life. We enjoy the simple things - walks in the woods with the dogs, long car rides and...

Dre and I have already gotten super used to baby-wearing, so using the stroller felt like a huge novelty. You mean, the baby sits in there? And I push this thing? And we walk behind it?

I would be foolish to think that hair is more important than the precious time I have with my son, but I know who I am as an individual, as a mother and most importantly as a role model for my son.