Survive NICU No matter what the circumstances or what your experience is, everyone has the same objective when their baby is born premature: Survive NICU life. Not only are you scared for your baby, but your whole life changes and your priorities shift. While not everyone may be able to be there all day, every day, you do your best to be with your baby as much as possible. … [Read more...]
First Born Fridays and The Third Year
This post has been heavily weighing on my mind for some time now. Sure, life got in the way of writing it, but it was more than that. The third year, when my son was just two-years-old, was one of the hardest years of my life. However, this post is not about me, it's about him. I guess that's what makes it so hard. I will never really know how he was effected by all the … [Read more...]
Guest Post – The Second Baby
I did not have the "typical" second baby experience. Early on in my second pregnancy, even when I was just thinking about having another baby, I thought about all the things I would do differently or improve upon when my second baby arrived. All of this went out the window when first, we found out we were having twins, and second, when there were lots of complications. For … [Read more...]