Postpartum Thoughts

Tessa is 10 days old today! I LOVE this baby. She is so happy! She’s only been waking up once per night, at about 3am, and usually goes right back to sleep after a diaper change and nursing. She loves the sling, and she loves hanging out on my lap, looking around. Her sisters love [...]

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Tessa Eve’s Birth Story

As you can tell from the title, if you don’t wanna know, you shouldn’t keep reading. My water broke at 6am Christmas morning. I had been uncomfortable and couldn’t sleep since about 4am, and was just laying there trying not to be frustrated with still being pregnant on Christmas. Suddenly I felt a cramp and [...]

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The Plan

Though some people may be surprised by this, I almost always have a plan. Often, my plan is to have no plan. But that is a plan, just the same. If my plan is to have no plan, and you try to make me have a plan, um…good luck. (Incidentally, if there’s one thing Nick [...]

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Happy Birthday to Hannah

My day three years ago actually started two weeks before that… (Warning: birth story following) I woke up on Easter morning, nearly nine months pregnant, the day after my sister’s wedding, to a little trickle that sure felt like my water breaking. I got up, more water. Then I had some bloody show. Anytime I [...]

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God is cool

My friend Thea has such a cool story to tell that I asked her if I could share it. For the past several months, she’s been dealing with a posterior placenta previa in her second pregnancy. If you don’t understand previa, here’s a place to read about it. She was scheduled for her second c-section [...]

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Another headline

The U.S. maternal death rate is higher than in European countries. Interesting. Even more interesting is the list they give of the cause of death. “The major direct causes of U.S. pregnancy-related deaths are blood clots, hemorrhage, complications of medical conditions, and eclampsia and pre-eclampsia, which are marked by dangerously high blood pressure.” How many [...]

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Diet for moms

Betcha thought this post was about how to lose weight. Well, it’s not. Kim at Starry Sky Ranch posted a series a while back about Home Management Notebooks. This, I have found, is a secret of moms with lotsa kids. They don’t keep it all in their heads – they write out everything they know. [...]

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