12 Week Pregnancy Bumpdate

  So in case you haven't heard the good news yet... I'M PREGNANT!!! We were definitely hoping to have another baby this year and are so excited about welcoming a new addition to our family in October! Since we recently moved states and live away from virtually all of our family and friends, I have decided…

Lincoln’s Birth Story Part 3: The Aftermath

This part of our birth story was probably the most different from what I had expected when I first got pregnant. Because of his diagnosis (congenital diaphragmatic hernia) I was not able to spend more than a brief moment with my brand new baby. No skin to skin, no breastfeeding, nothing. I am so glad…

Lincoln’s Birth Story Part 2: Labor and Delivery

By the time we were on the way to the hospital, I was definitely noticing that the pains were coming and going in waves. It was much subtler than I had expected. I remember trying to time them at one point but couldn’t really focus enough to figure out whether they were consistent. I was…

Lincoln’s Birth Story Part 1: The Beginning

This is a story I have been wanting to tell for some time now, as much for my future self as anything else (my mom has given me full warning about how the details fade across the years). Many people will tell you that the day their child is born is the best day of…

Natural Parenting a NICU Baby

It was nothing like the way I had imagined it. Here I was, a minute after giving birth to my firstborn son, and he was being taken from me and rushed to the NICU to be intubated, poked, and prodded. Lincoln was born with a condition called Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia and had to spend two…