Pregnancy

Now.  Yep. I think you should announce your pregnancy now.  Well, let me back up a bit. I do not necessarily think you have to announce it to the whole wide world. But, I do think you need to tell those...

September 2010. That’s when my fertility journey began. After months of trying to get pregnant, I asked my gynecologist if he would check my thyroid because of family history. I never showed the typical signs for hypothyroidism - weight...

{read my "I Was Brave For You" :: A Cesarean Birth Story here} Father’s Day weekend, I gave your daddy the best news I could think of … He was going to be a daddy again! Although shocked, we were...

{read my "You Were Brave for Me" :: A VBAC Birth Story here} I dreamt about the day you’d be born. It was like a movie trailer that played on repeat in my head. That perfect scene where your daddy...

When I found out that I was pregnant for my first baby after struggling with infertility, I searched the web for all of the things I might need for the first trimester of my pregnancy. I must have read...

I have always believed that everything happens for a reason, even if far beyond our comprehension. But after this last year, I believe in more than that. I believe that everything is perfectly orchestrated and we are just along...

I am a mother to four children ages 6, 5, 3, and 1. No, those were not typos.  We are beginning to reap the benefits of children so close in age. Our oldest two are BFFs and our middle two...

You have seen it asked time and time again, "What is your favorite thing about yourself?" We get physical and talk about our legs or our eyes, and we get emotional and talk about our kind hearts and our...

I have always been a thank you note writer. I firmly believe that snail mail is magical, and the art of thank you note writing is alive and well. In fact, when we were married in 2012, I wrote...

I have always been very careful NOT to ask friends and family when they were going to have a child (or another one). After personally experiencing this line of questioning for the last eleven years, answering this question can...