pregnancy
Growing your family, one baby bump at a time. All about the ups and downs of nature's 9 month miracle.
Being a New Mom Really Sucks!
When you're pregnant, you have all of these blissful aspirations about how wonderful everything's going to be. You think about the kind of mom you'll be, and how your birth will be prefect. Sometimes this happens, and sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes the baby won't come out or your blood pressure skyrockets. Because really, you can't control your birth. You can have an idea about what will happen. But it's my opinion that birth happens to you. You can read. You can plan. But in the end, you are ushered into motherhood with a squirmy, wonderfully squishy baby.
By Shana Nizeul8 years ago in Families
Becoming a Mom
The day my life changed forever. My pregnancy was very rough on me, if there’s any moms reading this, I hope you can relate to the morning sickness. Oh my god it was rough. The first 13 weeks of my pregnancy I did nothing but stay in the bathroom day and night. Had to go to the hospital three times for IV fluids... very rough... but having her was an experience that I can’t describe! My labor was rough. She was my first. It was a hard six hours of back labor and contractions... but only a ten minute push! After I had her the emotions I had were unreal! Heard of the emotional roller coaster? Well, that’s what it was like for me. It didn’t feel like she was mine... it didn’t feel like I just had a baby... it felt like a movie... all I wanted to do was go home. I wanted to take her and go home. But she was having problems and had to be put under the lizard light, which is what I called it, and she wasn’t eating.. all she wanted to do was sleep. From the moment I found out I was pregnant I wanted to breastfeed and I know there’s a lot of different thoughts on it but this was my choice and it was hard. It took us over a month to get the hang of it. And we went through it all...thrush... cracked/bleeding nipples problems with latching... you name it, we went through it. I was ready to give up, it was super painful, but I pushed through and we are still going to this day! She’s ten months and it’s a bond I can never lose with her.
By Morgan Hatley8 years ago in Families
It Is Your Right to Be Birth Informed
British Columbia. Canada. On November 9, 2017, I found out that we were expecting our first little bean. While our journey to become parents has not been long, my career of choice has always been motherhood, ever since I was a little girl. While up until this point I have had minimal involvement in birth advocacy, I have taken it upon myself to spend the last few years educating myself in preparation.
By Deidre Rawlings8 years ago in Families
Tips and Ways to Save on Baby Items
👶Ways to save on baby items👶 As a mom on a budget I made it my mission to seek coupons and samples for baby products my child uses on a regular basis mainly to save money and not having to penny pinch as much. I searched online and signed up for many and many sites promising to send samples out and never received a single item! So I took it upon myself to personally call companies and ask for any samples and coupons they may have and researching and sign up for many baby registries. In this article I will list tips and ways to get valuable coupons and samples on baby products such as baby formula, baby bottles, diapers and much more.
By Tiffany Howard8 years ago in Families
Giving Birth for the First Time
I started thinking about labor the day I found out I was pregnant, November 20th, 2016. Thinking? More like worrying! You don't realize you're going to be delivering a little human until you know you have no other choice. Don't get me wrong, I was extremely happy and excited; it was starting a new chapter in my life. But I've always been a crybaby when it came to pain, so of course, the panic of labor started. I started watching videos of women giving labor, and honestly, it scared me even more, so I decided to not look at those and not let my anxiety get to me until I was at least half way or more through my pregnancy, because I obviously still had a long way to go.
By Florencia Marquez8 years ago in Families
The Beginning
I found out we were expecting our second child on the first one's third birthday. I awoke that morning with tingling breasts and a sense of dread. Rolling over to my husband, I told him then even though it was 6 AM on a Sunday he needed to find a pregnancy test. So on a cold January morning, he drove to the nearest BP garage and asked the bored, gum chewing assistant to pass him a Clearblue from behind the counter. She must have thought him odd; a tattooed, long haired surfer-esque guy in tracksuit pants and a green t-shirt with holes in the sides (which I keep telling him to throw out) grinning from ear to ear as he thanks her and drives home with the precious cargo.
By Pillsandtea X8 years ago in Families
Pregnancy is 'Beautiful'
As a recently pregnant woman, I'm here to tell you the ten truths about being pregnant. Because once you've made that big announcement to friends and family, they will all tell you how great it all is. Well, I'm here to tell you a few truths about being pregnant.
By Faith Porter8 years ago in Families
