What happened last night? Is everything okay?” my husband asked, as we woke up that January morning. I was one week past my due date and we were eagerly expecting our little girl’s arrival. “I passed my plug and started having contractions,” I responded. “I didn’t want to wake you because I figured you needed […]
Childbirth Without Fear, pt.1
I’m super hungry. I just want a huge burger!” DJ, my mom, and my aunt subsequently accompanied me to a restaurant after leaving the doctor’s office late that morning. I had been in early labor since 4 AM, and my contractions were getting stronger and closer together. So, after calling my midwife, and being told […]
We Moved…Again!
Micah wake up. Train. Beep Beep!” I knew things were bad when Micah began telling me, in his own language, that the train had woken him up the night before. It was almost six months since moving to North Carolina, and things were going great. We were beginning to get plugged in with the local […]
Breast Milk, Medicine, and Your Future Self
Sometimes blessings come from the unlikeliest of places. Spending the first week of our little one’s life visiting him in the NICU was certainly no easy task (Read about it here). However, it provided us with the awesome blessing of teachers, in the form of nurses, to help us with transitioning into parenthood. Every day, […]
I’m Coming Home Baby
“Something’s not right with him,” I told my mom with a worried expression on my face. As I held my newborn baby in my arms, I knew all was not well. Micah was born around 4 am that morning, and I was in the Mother & Baby Unit recovering and getting to know this bundle […]