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.
I’ve heard most of the ones concerning pregnancy, I’m pretty sure. One of the first ones I heard was when I was pregnant with Olivia and was told I was *definitely* carrying a boy because of how low my belly was. Since then, I don’t put much stock in them. (Turns out I carry low. [...]
Filed under: Pregnancy on April 21st, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Since I last posted about preparing for my babymoon (love that term!), I’ve slowly been adding to the stockpile. 6 honey oat bread mixes 3 pizza dough mixes 3 cornbread mixes 2 gallon baggies of muffins 1 gallon bag of waffles And also: 1 pork roast 1 chuck roast 1 ham 1 gallon baggy of [...]
Filed under: Pregnancy on April 17th, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Really? There are still things that need to be done for #3? Umm…. Ok, so you got me thinking, whoever-it-was-who-originally-asked-me-this. As far as actual purchases go, we’re looking into a big boy bed for Benjamin. That’s pretty much it. And he doesn’t even need that until the new baby is old enough to roll over, [...]
Filed under: Motherhood, Pregnancy on April 9th, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I do believe last I talked with you all about birthing choices, we were set on driving over an hour to get to a hospital so natural-birth-friendly that they had birthing tubs and doulas on staff. And it was a great hospital. They answered all the questions right. Had everything I’d ever want in a [...]
Filed under: Pregnancy, The Mommy, The Natural Childbirth, The News on March 31st, 2009 | 21 Comments »
I had pretty much decided how this birth would go. Josh was against homebirth since we’re about half an hour from the hospital. I didn’t really want to drive over an hour to a birthing center or hospital that would allow me to use a midwife. So I was going to have the New Baby [...]
Filed under: Pregnancy, The Mommy, The Natural Childbirth on February 24th, 2009 | 22 Comments »
We joke that we’ll end up calling the new baby, “New Baby”. Because when you ask Benjamin what his name is, he stares you in the eyes and responds in all seriousness: “Baby.” If you ask him what his sister’s name is, he’ll answer, “Vah-yah.” Which is an honest attempt at “Olivia.” So we know [...]
Filed under: Meet-and-Greet-Mondays, Pregnancy on February 2nd, 2009 | 8 Comments »
{Evil grin} {Devilish laugh} It’s a completely healthy and adorable little b… {Snort} BABY. We didn’t find out. Josh decided we should go for surprise. We’ve already had a boy and girl, the only thing we haven’t had, yet, is a surprise. We have pictures and a video from the ultrasound. It was amazing to [...]
Filed under: Pregnancy, The News on January 27th, 2009 | 26 Comments »
I’m about 18 weeks pregnant, so I figured it was high time to see a doctor. I would have loved to see a midwife, but as they’re not allowed to deliver babies in hospitals in this area (and there are no birthing centers), and Josh has a thing against homebirth (still), it’s doctor+hospital for us [...]
Filed under: Pregnancy, The News on January 8th, 2009 | 18 Comments »
We had company this weekend! Meet Ashley from twentysixcats: We had fun taking pictures with our fancy schmancy d-slr’s: They could only stay a short while, though, and then it was off to the pumpkin patch! We love our pumpkin patches. They hold a special place in our hearts. Where is this Great Pumpkin…? Olivia [...]
Filed under: Meet-and-Greet-Mondays, Pregnancy on October 6th, 2008 | 21 Comments »
There is no point what-so-ever in trying to compare different pregnancies, labors, or children. God has taught me this before my second child has even been born. Isn’t He nice like that? With Olivia, I felt no contractions until my water broke and had her five and a half hours later (who knows how much [...]
Filed under: Pregnancy on March 16th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
