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A Tale of Two {Very Different} Births St. Patrick’s Day is the feast of the saint who famously converted Ireland to the Catholic faith. It is a day normally celebrated all around the world, typically with crowded bars, street parades, pints of beer, shots of whiskey, and lots of green. A day when we’re all […]
Now, I don’t like to brag or anything, but after we took the childbirth class at the hospital, before we had our first kid, I was an EXPERT on breastfeeding. I was a little miffed that they didn’t hand out medals, but the class was only $75, so it’s understandable. Here’s what I knew about […]
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I am pretty much an open book. There’s not much I haven’t shared from our infertility journey to my hysterectomy and my marriage trials. But one thing I haven’t been able admit {to myself even} is that the day my babies were born was one of the worst days of my life. Now I know […]
To say my family’s journey to the NICU was unexpected would be an ENORMOUS understatement. If you had told 8-month-pregnant-me, reporting for her last day of work for the school year that I would be holding my first baby three hours after I left school, I would have laughed you out of the room. And […]
April is Cesarean Awareness Month. To me, a birth story is like a good book that I can’t put down. I love to hear how these amazing little creatures are born. No birth story is the same, and that’s what makes them as unique as the mommies and babies telling the story. I had […]
October 26th marks 13 years. 13 years since I delivered our stillborn son. To put it mildly, 2004 was not my best year. On June 15, 2004, at 27 years of age, I was newly pregnant, and after a routine blood test, I was subsequently diagnosed with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia {CML}. My amazing doctor at […]
I was overjoyed to learn that I was pregnant for the second time. My first pregnancy ended with a premature baby in the NICU while I recovered from severe preeclampsia, so I spent this pregnancy praying for a different outcome. {Side Note :: My daughter is a perfectly healthy 5 year old now.} I knew […]
