Only three—or maybe two—weeks left. My midwife appointments are always a bit dramatic these days. Unfortunately, this week’s appointment was not tear-free. I had wanted to do another ultrasound, on the off-chance that the placenta would’ve moved by now, but my midwife squashed that idea: she said there was absolutely no chance that the placenta would have …
I looked forward to the day when I could tell my husband that I was pregnant. I had suffered through baby fever for a year and a half, before we got that positive pregnancy test, and being the planner that I am, I had spent a great deal of time deciding on how I wanted to …
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We made it to 34 Weeks pregnant!! If you heard a gusty sigh of relief, that was me after I read in my weekly Mama Natural update that “babies born at 34 weeks with no other health issues are usually healthy and need nothing more than a little time in the neonatal nursery. Phew!”. Phew, …
Two years of marriage. It seems like I just wrote our first year anniversary post, and here I am reflecting on year two, and preparing for year three! These past twelve months have been packed to the brim: Saia finished his last semester of classes, completed his Senior recital, worked as Assistant Wrestling Coach, and graduated …
FIVE WEEKS LEFT You know that you are getting to the end of your pregnancy, when someone asks you “how long?” and you automatically answer with how many weeks you have remaining rather than how many weeks you are in your pregnancy. I remember being five weeks pregnant, and now I am five weeks away …
We scheduled baby L’s birthday last week. It was the most bizarre thing, my midwife called me, I looked at my calendar, and we chose a date for this baby to be born. If everything goes according to plan (with placenta previa, everyone is just hoping that I’ll make it to the c-section without bleeding/early …
Some women have easy pregnancies. I know this because, for the first half of my pregnancy, I was one of them. I heard so many horror stories from other moms who threw up daily (or many times a day) for months on end, who were hospitalized with hyperemesis gravidarum because they couldn’t even keep water down, …
I am 75% done with this pregnancy! Whoa! One one hand, I cannot believe that in two short months we will have a baby in our apartment. On the other, it feels like centuries since that day in December when I first saw the faint second line on a pregnancy test. This pregnancy has been quite …
I only have 6-10 weeks left in this pregnancy gig. Whoa. Today I am 30 weeks pregnant! This pregnancy is quickly winding to a close, and the parenting part of the equation (I.E. the rest of our lives) is about to kick into high gear. You guys, it really feels like the first trimester was …
This pregnancy just kicked into high gear. After finding out about my persistent placenta previa (alliterations are fun, placenta previa is not), and realizing that this baby will probably come sooner than expected, I spent two days feeling completely overwhelmed and curled up on the couch crying, but now I am starting to piece together a …
