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Must Have Baby Registry Items for your 2nd (or 3rd) Baby and Why you should still Register
It was 4th of July. I had finally gotten into the groove of working out again (after being diagnosed with a heart defect a year and a half before and being pregnant and then working through his extremely hard newborn days). C was 9 months old, and I was doing Baby Boot Camp. I remember being SO excited when we…
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Ultimate Guide to C- Section Recovery
I’ve noticed over the years that people have a lot of strong opinions about the way they give birth. Some of my friends are huge proponents of the all-natural route (doula, water birth, home births or birth center, etc), some of my friends praise God for epidurals, and some delight in scheduled c-sections. Before I found out about my heart…
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5 Best Morning Sickness Remedies
Congratulations! You saw that beloved pink (or blue, or read the digital screen), and you are pregnant! So many emotions. SO many hormones. Exhaustion. Sickness. Welcome to the beginning of motherhood, a road paved with so much joy and also so many trials, the first of which for many is “morning sickness”. Who thought of that name, anyway? Mine was…
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How to Induce Labor
***this post contains affiliate links at no cost to you*** I wanted to avoid being induced all 3 times. I read and researched and tried all of the things! Here are things friends suggested and things I read online: Sex. You have all heard it, I know. So I thought I would just go ahead and get that one out of…