The First Baby Story
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It’s Just a Baby Story Now
We’re home. It’s been over a month since we left the hospital and are living life now, as a family of three. It’s interesting how when things are going well,…
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light is always at the end of the tunnel
We are making it. Tanner is up on weight. She is eating from a bottle and from me. We are approaching the end of our chapter in Joseph Brant Hospital.…
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A Mom, a horseback rider; becoming herself
It is this most surreal feeling to process. its the feeling of looking out on your life thinking “this cant be real. this is too good to be true. This…
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Ch.9 one step forward, maybe one step back
I thought I was doing ok, but it comes in waves. We are taking it day by day, but it gets harder to leave. although it becomes more and more…
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postpartum remedy
everything that’s been something has been an easy adjustment because I simply don’t care. Things have changed and I flow with them. My body isn’t the same, I allow her…
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chapter 8 – what goes up, must come down..including my emotions
The past few days have been a lot. I think the initial adrenaline has come down and the new schedule is catching up to me. Its like now i realize…
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ch 7 – its the little things
This journey was given to me, i believe, for a reason. I always like to think that lessons i need to learn will appear and when they do, i am…
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sometimes the best plan is to just stay present.
this is a thought as a preterm mom who had no plans, that i made anyways. But the funny thing about plans is – are they every really our own?…
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ch 6
Having a baby is overwhelming. Going through the preterm baby life is overwhelming. I think no matter which way you cut the cord(had to make a baby joke) motherhood is…
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3 am Journal thought about my baby girl in nicu
the first day i felt insignificant. i pushed a baby out. and that was it. i only saw her twice, briefly. Today, the second day i held her on my…
