This morning Brady and I were listening to the music channel and I was making silly faces and singing to him (which he thinks is so much fun). I have yet to give any thought to what words he is exposed to since he is still an infant (except limiting my own cursing) until Eminem’s…
I’ve really enjoyed reading others stories of breastfeeding – successful and unsuccessful – so I wanted to do the same here for others. I haven’t had a chance to blog about it yet, but since Brady was premature he was in the Progressive Care Nursery for about 30 hours after he was born. Since I…
At my 35 week 4 day checkup I had an ultrasound to check baby’s position. Just like all the others this one showed a foot down baby, his head comfortably resting on the top of my uterus. I met with my midwife and she let me know that since he was footling breech he wouldn’t…
I chose that title for this blog post because before I get all preachy with my childbirth views I wanted to get one thing clear. These are my tentative plans. This is what I would like to have happen. However I am fully open to and ready for changes in those plans and following the…
The previous Wednesday I had my yearly visit with the girly doctor where I announced we were trying to conceive. We spent some time discussing staying healthy and preparing to be pregnant, understanding that there was the possibility that I could already be preggo that very moment. Aunt Flo was scheduled to arrive in two…
For the last couple of years we have had an occasional leaky basement, and when I say “leaky” I mean more like “floody”. We’ve been lucky enough to have it stopped for the time being but we really needed to fix the problem eventually, which was our back patio. I grabbed my camera for before…