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    Buns in the Oven Part 7: Symptoms of the -1st trimester
    Lizzie Hessek
    • Jun 13, 2017
    • 7 min

    Buns in the Oven Part 7: Symptoms of the -1st trimester

    Our lives are all segmented into multiple, invariable cycles. Monday’s minor depression high tides into Friday’s fleeting joy. The stress of paying bills by the 15th of the month leads straight to payday’s debauchery on the 31st. The colors of the farmer’s market in June fade to dull November stands that force you to get a little more creative with your menu. The universe gifts you a new cycle when you are trying to get pregnant. Yes, most women’s bodies already adhere to cyc
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    Buns in the Oven Part 5: Kids are Expensive
    Lizzie Hessek
    • Jan 17, 2017
    • 3 min

    Buns in the Oven Part 5: Kids are Expensive

    Hello! Happy New Year! Welcome back to Queer Martha and, specifically, Buns in the Oven! We're still keeping on keeping on with this whole baby-making party. When Rachel and I initially began our child-creating mission back on New Years Day 2014, we were a little baffled by the lack of pertinent information describing the process. There are loads of sites dedicated to the TTC (Trying to Conceive) community, but I found a lot of it to be more geared toward emotional support fo
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    Sur le Boulevard Voltaire
    Lizzie Hessek
    • Nov 17, 2015
    • 3 min

    Sur le Boulevard Voltaire

    I haven't yet written anything that has earned the "kids" tag, but I do hope to someday (perhaps in a few months), carve out a piece of this blog for queer kid-creation chronicles. There are a few beautiful places on the internet where the path to queer conception and the following nine months are detailed - I was so happy to follow Haley during her pregnancy - but I want there to be more! Without queer role models it is so easy to see having kids as this super heteronormativ
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