As I mentioned on Sunshine Doodle’s birth announcement, her labor and birth wasn’t quite what we had expected, although I can’t really complain about it either.
The plan was to break my water Saturday morning, and we all expected things to progress very quickly based on my history.
We arrived at the hospital at 8:00 a.m. on [...]

Sidney Hope was born at 2:28 p.m. yesterday, Saturday, September 12th, after about 5.5 hours of labor. It was an *interesting* labor, for sure, and I hope to get around to typing up that story as soon as I finish processing it in my head!
She is 20″ long and weighed in at 6 lbs. 13 [...]

Whew, what a roller coaster ride the past week has been. Last Friday, I started experiencing crampy contractions and was sure we’d have a baby over the weekend. Unfortunately, despite a trip to L&D with contractions every 3-5 minutes on Sunday, they just never seemed to get productive enough to move into active labor.
To put [...]

This meme made the rounds last Labor Day, and I thought it was so much fun. I was really hoping to have Sidney’s stats to add to it (and to be honest, I’m feeling very worn out and discouraged today after a run to L&D yesterday morning that definitely did not result in a teeny [...]

Early in the summer, I set my sights on filling our freezer with 6 weeks worth of breakfasts, lunches and dinners so that I can fully enjoy Sidney’s “babymoon”. My mom came over once a month in June, July and August and helped me cook, and I did some on my own as well, and [...]

Cross posted at Organizing Your Way.
This morning we went for our standard mid-pregnancy ultrasound. Although the tech waited until the very end for the “money shot,” my husband and I both knew the instant that she got there that the baby was indeed a girl. We’ve seen those girl parts on an ultrasound four times [...]

There’s been one thing on my mind since we found out we were pregnant again (other than our fears of another miscarriage which were thankfully minimized as my morning sickness intensified)…deciding between a VBAC and repeat c-section.
To give those of you who I don’t know IRL a quick rundown, my first two girls were born [...]

Betcha can’t guess how far along I was in the following belly shots; bonus points for anyone who can guess which pregnancy is which!