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Turner Cole’s Birth Story: A Pandemic Baby
For Turners birth story, I’d like to rewind back to 30 weeks of pregnancy, when I went to my regular pre-natal doctors appointment and my “fundal height” measured THREE WEEKS AHEAD. The fundal height is the measurement in centimeters from the pubic bone to the top of the uterus. The expectation isthat after 24 weeks gestation, the measurement matches the weeks of pregnancy. So while my weight gain was “on track”, my physician did think it was important to order an early “growth scan” or ultrasound to measure baby as well as the amount of fluid in my amniotic sac. Both things we expected to be “normal” but were important…
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Finding Out About Baby #2
Zach and I have always known that we wanted more than one child. He has one sister and I have two, so giving our children siblings was never really a decision we had to think too hard on. Surprisingly enough though, making the conscious decision to actually “try” for number two was harder than we anticipated. We had finally hit a groove with Cam and felt like we were getting the hang of this parenting thing. We had a few trips away from baby planned, he was/is sleeping through the night, so we are both more well rested than we were this time last year.. our new normal of parenthood…
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Surviving: Weaning My 18 Month Old
Before I ever became pregnant, I knew I wanted to breastfeed. I didn’t know how long or what it would be like, but I knew in my soul it would be a part of my motherhood journey. When I got pregnant with Cam, I anticipated breastfeeding him by blissfully and ignorantly planning on just “doing it”. I didn’t do a ton of research, I didn’t join any Facebook groups (besides the due date group I was already in).. I just knew that I was going to try. When people would ask how long I planned on nursing, my response was pretty scripted: “My short term goal is 3 months, my…
