I'm a mother of three, five and under. I'm a wife to a perpetual student. (Seriously, just graduate already - I mean, "I support you, honey.") I'm a child to the only Father who can claim to be Perfect, and I study under Him daily in hopes of learning from the Best.
I believe in breastfeeding, natural childbirthing, cloth-diapering, co-sleeping, baby-wearing, and attachment parenting.
Compared to the bottle-feeding, Pampers-wearing, crib-sleeping, day-caring world around me, I thought maybe that qualified me as a Natural Mommy.
In case you didn’t see the description (what all do they show you when I embed a video?): We gave our children some exciting news… And this is how they reacted. Back story: This is what my husband said, at age ten, when he was told his littlest sister was coming. So, no, this isn’t [...]
Filed under: Pregnancy, The News on October 13th, 2011 | 10 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 »
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 »
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 »
The first two weeks of pregnancy, you’re a ball of nerves because you don’t know if you’re pregnant or not. You’re hyper-aware of all your bodily functions, trying not to make too much of nothing. The last two weeks of pregnancy, you’re a ball of nerves because you don’t know if you’re in labor or [...]
Filed under: Pregnancy on May 29th, 2009 | 12 Comments »
&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1656079/” mce_href=”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1656079/”&gt;What is your favorite girl name?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=”font-size:9px;” mce_style=”font-size:9px;”&gt;(&lt;a href=”http://www.polldaddy.com” mce_href=”http://www.polldaddy.com”&gt;surveys&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; In the comments, tell me what middle name you’d pick to go with the first name you chose. Feel free to use the above five first names as middle names. We like those names. We want to use them. We [...]
Filed under: Pregnancy on May 28th, 2009 | 39 Comments »
Sorry, no Meet-and-Greet this week… We still had company on Monday, so I didn’t even realize I’d forgotten until Tuesday, and then I had no laptop, just this dinosaur of a desktop and decided if I tried to upload pictures using THIS, you wouldn’t get them until Friday anyway. I do have pictures though! Just [...]
Filed under: Pregnancy on May 27th, 2009 | 5 Comments »
So I’m a week shy of full-term. Four weeks away from delivery if she’s early like Olivia. Six weeks away if she’s late like Benjamin. Am I ready? No. Sure I’ve got stuff in the freezer for my “Babymoon”. But I’ve yet to wash the gender neutral onesies in the garage. Or find a place [...]
Filed under: Motherhood, Pregnancy on May 8th, 2009 | 7 Comments »
