Pregnancy

Hi there! I'm your pregnant body. You wouldn't believe all the awesome/precious/beautiful/miraculous things I am doing to grow your baby. For starters, I am growing you a whole other organ called a Placenta. It will act as a bridge between...

When I was pregnant with Cole (my first child) I remember feeling the strain on my back from the pregnancy and wondered about how safe it was to seek chiropractic care. The thought of lying on my stomach and...

The countdown has officially begun!  We are anticipating the arrival of baby girl #2 in three weeks.  I must admit that I do enjoy being pregnant...that is, up until the last month.  That's right, the last month is the...

Don't get excited now, they are not mine!  My sister-in-law is pregnant with TWINS!!  Yup, I said it...TWINS!!  We (the entire family) are thrilled for her and her husband.  As for them, I know they are happy but I...

I have chosen to do prenatal testing with each of my three pregnancies. My husband’s brother had spina bifida, so we have a higher statistical risk of having a baby with spina bifida. A spina bifida diagnosis could make...

Last November, I wrote a post about my health issues regarding my ability to get pregnant and how I wasn't sure if Mike and I would have more kids.  Well, guess what?  I am PREGNANT!  and little did I...

I never thought my only child (she's two, almost three) would be asking for a sibling. Never in a million years. Not so soon, not ever. She is the center of our universe, she has issues with sharing, and she...

I did! I wanted as natural as a birth as I could get. I even took The Bradley Method childbirth classes before the birth of my first baby. After the first class my husband asked me in the car, "Are...

I grew up with the misconception that if I had unprotected sex, I WOULD get pregnant. "Trying to Conceive" was a foreign concept to my 20-something brain. Sadly, I spent a lot of my young adult life with this same...

My third child is arriving soon, and the preparation for baby three has continued to evolve. Scroll down to see the FULL LIST that we've been working on and blogging about with links to those articles. Previously I've written about sorting...