"MOTHERHOOD is a choice you make everyday to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own. To teach the hard lessons. To do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is. And to forgive yourself, over and over again for doing everything 'wrong'". - Donna Ball
As of today, this pregnancy is 38 weeks and 5 days along. I still cannot believe that there is an actual end to pregnancy… did anyone else feel that pregnancy was going to become a perpetual state of being their first time around?? I sure have felt that way. Not because the weeks have dragged, […]
The two most common questions I get asked as a pregnant woman are “when are you due?” and “what are you having?”. Total and complete strangers have asked me both of these questions ever since I was noticeably showing this baby bump. I’m not bothered by the questions like some mamas are but I certainly […]
This week was a hard week. This week I battled worries and fears of what our first weeks as parents will hold. It began when I started thinking more deeply about the postpartum journey that I will be on soon and what it will take to best prepare myself for whatever that experience may hold. […]
Third trimester is going to be a busy one! There is lots to do. If you’re anything like me, then you appreciate the power of a to-do list. I did not use to-do lists for my first or second trimester as I was going through them because I felt that I would have time left […]
Weeks 13-27 of pregnancy were certainly memorable. Not as much because of the pregnancy itself but because of all of the life that took place during the last 14 weeks! For starters, it was in my second trimester that I resigned from my job and made the final decision to stay home with this baby […]
Here we gooo! Third trimester is officially here. We will without a doubt have a baby in our arms within the next 13 weeks. I say 13 because my doctor will give baby 1 week post due date before they will put up an eviction notice. Second trimester was categorized by thoughts of labor – […]
Back in the middle of May, I posted a mood board for our expected gender-neutral nursery. The board revealed my hopes for what a nursery could look like with the items I had picked out at the time. Since then, we have found our “actuals” including all of our nursery furniture and even a few […]
Today marks 25 weeks. Instead of a bump pic, I thought I’d share our 4th of July family photo! My app tells me that this week, baby is the size of a head of cauliflower. I can’t say this particular comparison tickles me but I will take what I can get! Baby is about 1.5lbs […]
Something that has been on my mind a lot more often in my second trimester is labor. I have spent more time considering what I want it to look like (if it goes my way, which…), how I want my body to feel going into labor, and how I can start to prepare myself now […]
WAY late and I even missed weeks 19 and 20 but here it is… the 21 week bumpdate! Life since week 18 has been insane. I have struggled to keep up with many things, bumpdates among them. Week 21 has me feeling more motivated to engage in routines, which is a huge win. I started […]