The Natural Mommy

Warning:  This is a birth story.  It contains details about birth.  Some people of the squeamish variety may prefer not to know the details of birth.  Personally, I find them fascinating and wanted to share them with the world.  Enjoy!  Or not… June 14 had come and gone.  It wasn’t until the 17th that my [...]

Filed under: The Levi, The Natural Childbirth on June 25th, 2009 | 22 Comments »

I won’t make you wait for Monday. Here are your pictures! Momma and Levi. Love my sexy hospital gown. Looooooooooove it. Daddy and Levi. Olivia and Levi. She is in love. Benjamin and Levi. He is unsure. Benjamin about to pounce on the Daddy. This is how he expressed his… affection? Grandma (my mom) and [...]

Filed under: The Levi on June 25th, 2009 | 11 Comments »

BOY!  Who’d-a-thunk-it?  Guess we’ll have to save the name Evelyn for next time? Here’s our little chunker, Levi Alexander: He was born at 2:03am, June 20, 2009, weighing a whopping 9lb 2.4oz. He’s two inches taller than our other two were at birth, at 22 inches long. He’s a champion nurser; has already nursed for [...]

Filed under: The Levi on June 20th, 2009 | 41 Comments »

Yep, me.  I’m twittering as I go, so follow me at www.twitter.com/thenaturalmommy. The contractions are about 7-10 minutes apart, but sometimes as much as 12 minutes apart.  We’re going to try laying down to see if they go away for the night like they did with Benjamin. We’ll see!

Filed under: Pregnancy on June 19th, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Hi.  I’m still here.    I was hoping to have a … different … set of pictures for you today.  But you’ll have to settle for pictures of Olivia and Benjamin while New Baby continues to insist that there IS STILL PLENTY OF ROOM IN MAH BELLY. So this past week we got two different [...]

Filed under: Meet-and-Greet-Mondays on June 15th, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Sometimes I forget that this thing inside of me is more than just elbows and knees. Sometimes it catches me off-guard when I caress a protruding appendage and I realize that attached to it is a cute little baby bottom.  That would fit in the palm of my hand.  And further up is an adorably [...]

Filed under: Pregnancy on June 11th, 2009 | 5 Comments »

So apparently it takes a couple days for a preggo to recover from a weekend away visiting college friends.  Hi.  I’m here now. Meet the people I lived with in college (it was a dorm reunion – 2 floors girls, 1 floor guys): Joanna: Emily: Matt.  Or Flash.  Due to his photography skillz: Emily, Paul, [...]

Filed under: Meet-and-Greet-Mondays on June 10th, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Only without the betting. But seriously, on the left sidebar, above the spinning baby, there’s a new widget that will take you to a site where you can enter your guess for the baby’s gender, weight, length, and ETA details. It looks like this: Actually, you could also click on the above. Or just click [...]

Filed under: Pregnancy on June 4th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Hi. [flex] You may have noticed me. [flex] I mean, I’m getting pretty big. [flex] Well, I’d just like to address something.  I know what time it is. [flex] And it is NOT for any lack of strength that this baby has not come yet. [flex] I mean, it takes two for a baby to [...]

Filed under: Pregnancy on June 3rd, 2009 | 8 Comments »

This took ages. And we couldn’t agree on five that we both liked. So there’s seven on the list. <br /> <a href=”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1672462/” mce_href=”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1672462/”>What is your favorite boy name?</a><span style=”font-size:9px;” mce_style=”font-size:9px;”>(<a href=”http://www.polldaddy.com” mce_href=”http://www.polldaddy.com”>polls</a>)</span><br /> After you vote for a first name, tell me which middle name you’d put with it in the comments.  Middle names [...]

Filed under: Pregnancy on June 2nd, 2009 | 41 Comments »