This Too Shall Pass

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I am oscillating between ecstatic and mournful over this fact. Ecstatic because I can’t wait for this little one to finally, consistently sleep “through the night” (whatever that means). Ecstatic because she is starting to smile…on very rare occasions and usually for daddy. She’s also starting to coo. Ecstatic because that means she might start laughing soon…or holding her head up all the time. Enjoying tummy time (rather than screaming with frustration), and all those other beautiful milestones.

I swear, sometimes when she’s asleep I can see what she will look like at age 6…

Things I Thought I Knew

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People like to give you advice when you’re pregnant. There are a lot of things people warn you about… and you think you know, but that doesn’t mean that you KNOW them. There’s a difference between acknowledging a fact and experiential knowledge. Here are a few of them:

Sleep — They tell you that you will lose sleep, but until you have gone several weeks with only 3 consecutive hours of sleep, you can’t really understand what this means…

Prodromal Labor

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Something I’ve been meaning to write about for a while… Prodromal Labor. It used to be called “false labor” but there is nothing false about it. They are real contractions, they just usually aren’t making a ton of progress. I had prodromal labor for several days before the “active” contractions started.

It’s really frustrating because it doesn’t seem like anything is happening, you can’t sleep, and it feels like it will keep going forever, and the thought of it getting worse is completely inconceivable…

Avelea Wren

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So, it has been many weeks since I have updated… and my sweet baby is almost 2 weeks old and I haven’t even posted her birth story!

Before I start, I have to say, that I feel like a real mom today. She didn’t want to sleep, so I am currently “wearing” my baby, with a cup of coffee (decaf) beside me, listening to Needtobreathe, blogging, even though I should be sleeping.

Also, as a disclaimer, there may be some gory details you may not want to know, so if you don’t want to hear about it… maybe don’t read on. Second disclaimer, this is long. I don’t know how to be concise…

Baby Bed

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I told hubby that baby girl would be 7 years old before I ever finished this bed! The sanding took forever… and then the staining… and then the poly… so long! But here it is in progress: Almost all the […]