Early Fall 1967:
We are living in townhouse on Laguna in Boulder. Jenny is about ten months old, crawling. I am pregnant again, without intending to be. I am spotting and call Evelyn, Paul's wife, who lives in Denver with her brood of 6 kids, ask her if spotting is normal early in pregnancy, she says no, and I go to the doc. He tells me not to lift heavy things and on the way out he calls out to me, :oh, by the way, if nothing happens, come back in in a few weeks anyway because sometimes it can die in there.' Call Ed, crying, he's at the lab as usual and has no reaction; he;s overwhelmed by his own life, internal and external. I'd had to drop Jenny off at a neighbor's she's not used to, and she was quite frightened. I go home, pick up Jenny, lie on the couch, but of course I can't just be on bed rest, I have a baby to take care of. Within maybe 48 hours, I think, I'm hemorrhaging, go to hospital in ambulance, that's a whole other story. Have miscarriage.
1968: buy house on Bates, move in. Trying to get pregnant again, having trouble, but finally do, then spot some again, and I feel hopeless, but it stops. Pregnant latter half of 1968, goes easier than it did with Jen.
Feb. 11, 1969: Julia born, Betty comes out to stay with Jenny and Ed while I'm in 7th day adventist hospital in Boulder.
1970-71: I do some graduate work in English lit. at U of Colorado, Boulder. We're involved in anti Vietnam war politics.
1971: Ed loses job at NCAR, we move back to Libertyville, live with Ed's folks at 1201. Jenny is four and a half, Julia not quite two.
Ed teaching at UIC.
1972-3: I'm feeling depressed in marriage; Jen in Butterfield school, I put Julia in nursery school in Lake Bluff while I start graduate school at NU in learning disabilities.
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