Sitting on my couch in the quiet early morning typing this. The husband has already dashed off to work. Mabel is still sleeping. Toddler toys are strewn across my living room floor. Baby #2 is lightly moving in my belly; there isn’t much room left for her. And my mind is constantly thinking… Life is…
Category Archives: Motherhood
What’s a birth plan? Well, it can be a lot of things…but to me it’s basically what my expectations and preferences are for my labor and delivery. Since I’m delivering at a birth center (an independent midwife run center that is separate from a hospital), I’m actually required to create a birth plan. And it’s…
This photo was taken at 36 weeks and 1 day: Yay for bathroom selfies…seriously, this poor baby will be remembered in utero solely in bathroom pics because I haven’t had time to take them anywhere else. Anyway, today I’m 36 weeks and 3 days and am free to go into labor at our birth center…
To breastfeed or not to breastfeed…that is the question. If you’ve followed me from when I gave birth to Mabel, you’ll remember that I was super pumped (pun intended) to breastfeed and give her breast milk. I read all the books I could get my hands on, looked up websites on tips, info and positioning,…
I was pretty lucky this year that my birthday fell only two days after Thanksgiving…normally it wouldn’t be a huge deal but my husband has been out of town for the past two weeks due to a school/program that he was sent to by the Air Force for his career. With the holiday falling right…
I was 23 weeks yesterday…one more week closer to 40 and meeting this little lady. But one thing that I haven’t really discussed is my body image during pregnancy. For me, loving what I see is insanely difficult. Some of you are probably going to think this post is ridiculous or whiny but I’m just…
With all of the craziness of selling our home, living in limbo in Maryland, and now moving to South Carolina…there is something that I haven’t shared with you all yet. No…Mabel isn’t Clark Kent. 😉 But I for sure had a lot of fun taking photos of her outside in a Super Woman costume. But…