In case you missed my previous mentions, my cousin Leah is pregnant! She and her husband, Ted, are expecting a baby boy in March. We are all SO excited. I am soooo done having kids, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t sometimes think about what it would be like to have another little…
I Am A Preemie Parent
November 5th, 2015Comments: 27
November is Prematurity Awareness Month, and it’s also Madeline’s birthday month. I am missing my girl so much. We should be preparing for an eighth birthday party and a house full of second graders. When November rolls around, I have a lot of flashbacks to our time in the NICU with Maddie. I’m reposting a…
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- Posted in: Living With Loss
Helping Someone On Bed Rest
August 6th, 2014Comments: 55
I don’t know how it’s possible, but I’ve never written a post on how you can help a friend who’s on bed rest. I get asked all the time for ways to help, so I went through all of my emails and put this together. Between Madeline and Annabel’s pregnancies, I’m a bed rest veteran…
- Comments: 55
- Posted in: Health and Pregnancy
Tooth And Nail
May 22nd, 2014Comments: 35
My teeth have always been my Achilles heel. They were naturally a bit yellow, and one of my front teeth was discolored and crooked thanks to a softball-to-the-face incident. As I grew older, my teeth bothered me more and more, to the point where my parents kindly paid for teeth whitening the summer before I…
- Comments: 35
- Posted in: Family and Friends
Post-Baby Weight
September 24th, 2013Comments: 60
Now that I’m done with that whole Baby-Having phase of my life, I’m working on getting my health and body back. My hyperemesis is gone, although I have some lingering effects in my hair, teeth, and nails. When it was all said and done, I lost twenty-seven pounds, which would normally be a really exciting…
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- Posted in: Health and Pregnancy
