Category: pregnancy journey
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Birth Story
Surprise! This isn’t an April Fools joke- Baby Girl, AJ, has been earthside for nearly a month now. Today would have been her due date, but instead we celebrating the month of joy she has already brought us. Ironically, she came on the day I was scheduled to go over my birth plan with the…
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Pregnancy Story: 30 Week Update
We are officially two thirds of the way to the finish line! My bumpie this week was supposed to be something about being 30 weeks, with 20 thousand things left to do, and 10 weeks left to go. But instead I had to joke about playing catchup because I made last weeks board and never…
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Pregnancy Journey: the 1-Hour Glucose Test with the Fresh Test
One of the worst parts about the third trimester is the testing process for gestational diabetes. When you’re pregnant, sometimes your pancreas is unable to keep up, causing diabetes, that usually goes away after the baby is born. In order to test this, we are usually instructed to drink a standardized beverage with high amounts…
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Pregnancy Story: 20 Weeks
We are officially half way through this pregnancy. So first, let’s take a bumpie. I wanted a letter board with a sweet potato that said half baked but I still had a (stale) pink donut left, so decided to take a picture with that instead. [ This bumpie dress is perfect and so comfortable. Get…
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Pregnancy Bumpdates
Surprise! I’m pregnant with baby number two, and super excited to share the journey… in the form of Bumpies. The Bumpie Boards… whoever started using these old fashioned letter boards are my favorite person. I have almost no proper photos of my first pregnancy, or monthly milestone photos. I wasn’t nearly creative enough to come…
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Pregnancy Story: Telling Our Families
Of course we had to tell Lil Mama first. It was only fair since she had been asking for a sibling for half her life, that she be the first to find out. I wish we had done something more creative, but my creative juice wasn’t flowing yet.