The Cord Blood Question
I noticed that someone asked me to write about the topic of cord blood donation, and I am happy to do so. Unfortunately, I am not much of an “expert” in the field. I can only speak from experience in...
View ArticleThe Birth Plan!
Now that I’m (probably) less than a week away from delivery, I can’t stop thinking about how said delivery is going to go. I remember doing the same thing before Anna was born…and I made a very...
View ArticleA Tearjerker!
At nearly 36 weeks pregnant, it is SO not hard to make me cry right now! I am a big (ROUND) ball of emotions! I turned through pages of our son’s new baby book and started to sniffle. When I smell...
View ArticleCould This Really Be IT?
As far as I know, this is my last full day of being pregnant. The cerclage comes out tomorrow, and our son is expected to soon follow. Of course, that assumption may be wrong. But judging from the...
View ArticleThe Best Laid Plans…
So a birth plan (even a lightly-sketched one) only works when one is dealing with an actual birth. We have not yet had that privilege. Today is May 1, and I am still very, very pregnant. After all that...
View ArticleThe Waiting Game
At 37 weeks and counting, I am now MORE pregnant than I was when I delivered my first child…which, after 13 weeks on bed rest, has come as quite a shock. We prayed all along for a healthy full-term...
View ArticleDehydration…Who Knew?
I didn’t write much last week. A lot was going on, and I wasn’t really in the mood to share while I was still in the thick of it. The week started off with a bang. It’s Monday morning at 3 a.m. and the...
View ArticleThe Lease is Up!
When you first discover that you are pregnant, you are SO excited to be sharing your body with a new little stranger. “I can’t believe there is a LIFE inside of me,” most of us gush at some point. “Of...
View ArticleThe Drama King Makes his Debut
Seriously…if you’ve been following this blog, did you really think this pregnancy could have ended without a good story to tell? Impossible! Lucky for everyone…it’s a story that has a happy ending…and...
View ArticleLessons Learned
I don’t know about you, but my most memorable lessons have always come from doing something wrong the first time. Very, very wrong. Today, to fulfill one of the assignments from Mama Kat’s Writer’s...
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