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Am I Doing This Wrong?
While I have been down the baby road, it has been awhile and I have never been down the pregnancy road. I have spent years joining in the excitement as my friends have found out they are expecting a...
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Telling our Families
While we have told a few people about our impending arrival, we were holding off on telling our parents, and for good reason. To start with, my family lives two hours away and I don’t see them often....
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Losing the “Busy” Excuse
Last night a friend of mine rang and I let it go to voicemail since we were sitting down for dinner. Once I listened to her voicemail she had listed out her schedule for the week and how “busy” she...
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The Weekend In-Between
We woke up on Friday as people who were barely human, lacking sleep, puffy eyes, blank expressions, and still numb. Thankfully with a dog who didn’t understand bad days but still needed to be fed, be...
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The Monday of Nightmares
When you find out you are pregnant you give thought to when that baby will come into this world. I can tell you that most don’t think about their baby coming into this world already dead. Coming into...
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One Week and Some Days Post Surgery
Life, as we all know, continues. We get up, we stop at Starbucks, we go to work, we answer emails, we go home and make dinner. Our household is still going and we are attempting to do just that....
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And where do we go from here
I was ready to vomit in the parking lot of the hospital Friday. My nerves were getting the best of me when we were merely there for a last appointment with my OB/GYN. As my Husband reminded me, what...
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This is Our Marriage – Two Years.
I have spent two weeks trying to come up with something meaningful and heartfelt for our two-year anniversary post. You know, something tear jerker worthy. I’ve got nothing. Our anniversary was pretty...
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8 Weeks Later
It has been 8 weeks from that horrible Thursday that altered our world. These are the things I can tell you about. I can tell you that lately the days have gotten easier. The nightmares are slowing...
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Divorce vs. Miscarriage
We sat around my living room, 3 women, with loaded glasses of wine, on a Friday night. We were way past due for a wine night and had lots to catch up on. I had not told these girls about my...
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The Vacation-Dominican Republic
The day of my surgery I was in a hospital bed emailing my travel agent. We needed a vacation. Whenever life gets really tough for me, I take flight. I run somewhere that I can breathe and take a...
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The Calm After the Storm
It seems every January brings this calm into our household. We hole ourselves up to hibernate, having grown tired of being social over the Holiday’s. We find ourselves with little to no plans on the...
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Our Daily PTSD Dance
We went to see American Sniper at the movie theater this weekend and I was a bit anxious for reasons much different from my Husband. The first couple of theaters were sold out and we finally found one...
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Here we go again
I mentioned we were going to go back to the fertility doctor as soon as my next period showed up. So I waited, and waited and didn’t become overly concerned when said period wasn’t on time. My cycle...
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8 Weeks Pregnant
With that, we are now in our eighth week of pregnancy. I’m arriving in this week thankful that we even made it through the 7th week after a lot of cramping and a bleeding scare. I am back to yoga...
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11 Weeks and Upcoming April 3rd
At one point April 3rd was this elusive date, that seemed forever in the future, for both the Husband and I. It was the due date of our butterfly baby. In the past few weeks I have watched several...
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Preparing for Battle
Begin reading Rebecca’s story here. There were times during this that we were able to see Rebecca. When another family member would sneak us over to see her or during an appointment or two that we had...
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This is Our Story, Our Family
Begin Rebecca’s story here. I can truly tell you that I am fucked up by Rebecca’s journey. I never want her to read that sentence and feel she did something wrong though. I wouldn’t trade it for...
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To Become a Stay at Home Mom or Not
Some discussions have come up in our house recently that I never thought I would have with my Husband. A discussion that involves my career versus staying at home once we have a baby in the house....
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17 Weeks- Contractors
At 17 weeks pregnant I have discovered my tailbone. Let me explain. A few weeks ago, my tailbone felt like I had landed on it funny. I mentioned it to my doc who said that was normal and blamed...
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