I don’t usually write about breastfeeding, but for some reason I feel the need to explain myself. Twice in the past few days I’ve had to tell this story, and I’ve told it many more times before that. It’s much easier to write a blog post than to tell the story over and over again, so I guess that’s why I’m sharing this way. This is how I became a breastfeeding mama . . .
Category: Motherhood
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When You’re Past Your Pregnancy Due Date
With both of my pregnancies I thought my babies would come early. I remember with my first baby I got nervous around week 32 because a friend went into labor early. I made my husband put the car seat in the car that night.
At 41 weeks I was still pregnant.
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When You’re About to Have a Baby
Tonight I went to get take-out for dinner for our family. All the way home I cried. Not just a trinkling of tears but tears that cloud your eyes and make your shirt – or in my case belly – all wet. It could have been the song “I Will Never Leave You” on the CD I was listening to that a friend just gave me at my Baby Sprinkling.
It could have been that two weeks until my due date I can’t walk up stairs without having to stop, my toddler can no longer sit on my lap, or a deep fatigue has set in like I could sleep for days. Or it could have been that I was anticipating what’s to come. The pain. It’s going to hurt. Bad. And that’s scary.
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Being Bold and Standing Up Against Abortion
Last Tuesday morning I turned the corner onto the street leading to our local library to take my toddler to storytime, and this is what greeted me.
It caught me so off guard that I did a quick U-turn in the middle of the street to go back and make sure I saw what I think I saw. That’s when I stopped to take this picture.
Twenty-seven weeks pregnant myself, I literally started hyperventalating. My whole body shook, I gripped the steering wheel, I couldn’t breathe, and tears barreled down my face. “Oh, Jesus! Oh, Jesus! Come today.” That’s all I could say. (more…)
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When It’s Your Miscarried Baby’s Due Date
Five years ago my husband was on the waiting list to receive a donor heart for a heart transplant. As days went by with no donor match, he got sicker. Eventually he ended up waiting in the hospital. This is when he got a staph infection and was put on life support.
“He needs to receive a donor heart within the week”, the doctors told me. “Ecmo is a short-term solution.”
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Why We Give Our Daughters Three Names
You may have gotten a small word that a few weeks ago Prince William and Duchess Kate welcomed their second baby. And like monarchs previous, the new princess received three names – Charlotte Elizabeth Diana.
Last week we, too, named our second daughter due October 1st. She also has three names and so does our first daughter. Of course in our minds our baby girls are ever as much princesses as Princess Charlotte, but that’s not why we gave them three names. Frankly, our reason is much less romantic than following royal tradition.
