The Finish Line

My mom was consistent from the very beginning.  She said that “you can count on only one thing: it won’t go the way you plan it.”  She was talking about my delivery and she was right: it didn’t go the way I planned.  I knew the risk of having a cesarean was higher with an [...]

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Reflecting on my pregnancy

I LOVE: My Stretchmarks I feel like they are so symbolic of this beautiful thing I get to do.  They are the marks of my son.  They are the battlescars of pregnancy.  I will wear them like badges of honor because I am a woman and I have been given the gift of creating life.

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He Must Really Love Me

With my first trimester coming to a close, I am finally starting to feel grounded again after this pregnancy knocked me off my socks.  I definitely got off to a rocky start with all of the unpleasant symptoms of maternity.  But if you didn’t know that I was sick so often that I lost weight [...]

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Help This Precious Child

Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 NASB Dear God, I thank You for the gift of this child to raise, this life to share, this mind to help mold, this body to nurture, and this spirit to enrich. [...]

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Road Rage

I wasn’t quite prepared for this pregnancy.  Ryan and I had vowed to have one year of marriage before even bringing up the topic of children.  People asked us all the time, of course, “when are you guys gonna have a baby?”  We always shooed them away, bragging about our one year vow.  Our one [...]

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