Today I hit 27 weeks and am officially in the third trimester of my very last pregnancy. I was randomly calculating numbers the other day (because that’s how my brain works), and I figured that by the end of this pregnancy and including all miscarriages, I will have spent about three and a half years …
Pregnancy Update: Halfway Point with Baby #4
I’ve never been great at doing pregnancy updates, but since this is my last pregnancy, I figured I could at least do a few. I did a similar update back when I was pregnant with my second, so I just took the same topics from that. I officially hit 20 weeks last Friday (Jan. 20). …
Final Gender Reveal! We’re Having a…
Some women have a sixth sense about the gender of each of their babies (and often about the gender of other women’s babies, as well). I am not one of those women. For my first three children, I was 1 for 3 on predicting gender correctly. I thought my first was a boy (nope), my …
My Last Pregnancy
On July 27 of this year, I had my second D&C operation of 2022, due to a missed miscarriage a few weeks prior. That day was definitely one of my lowest points this year, and Matt and I had a deep and serious conversation on our long drive home from the hospital after the procedure …
Our Experience Having a 35-Week Preemie
Our happy Hyrum boy is 7 months old now, and as I happened to see some of the pictures the other day of when he was in the NICU, I was reminded that I’d never shared our experience with him being born premature in much detail. I think it would have helped me a lot …
What It’s Like Being on Bed Rest {34-Week Pregnancy Update}
This post contains affiliate links through Amazon, which means I may get a small commission on any purchases made through the links, at no extra cost to you. Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving yesterday! We’ve been down at my mom and stepdad’s for much of the week since Matt got an unexpected extra …
State of the Family Address {+ 32-Week Pregnancy Update}
Do you like how I said back in April that I was going to be doing State of the Family Address posts monthly, and that I haven’t done one since? Well, I intend to remedy that. I still haven’t decided how I’m going to go forward exactly with these (with the format or the series …
Why I’m (Probably) Changing My Birth Plan for My 3rd Baby
Note: If you’re sensitive to medical complications or only want to hear positive birth stories, I would suggest you skip this one. Some Background I come from a family of women who “do” unmedicated childbirths, from my mother–who had five out of the six of us without any pain medications, though the first was not …