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Baby Two: 12 Weeks Pregnant

I’m 12 weeks pregnant, y’all! Baby Lamotta is due September 28th, 2017! Today is 3/17/17 which means I’m 12 weeks, 1 day. Baby is the size of a toy soldier! Baby is a… no clue! Doctor’s appointment this week? Nope.   Current mood: Happy J Cravings: Banana pudding and chocolate milk/hot chocolate Food Aversions: Pizza still… and I just ate broccoli & cheddar soup and now I want to throw up because it’s remains are in the trash next to me and smells terrible. The yucky stuff: I was only able…

Baby Two: 11 Weeks Pregnant

  It’s dark, smelling oddly of smoke, and seriously in need of an updated design. This is what I’m thinking as I sit in the waiting room at Wake Med Maternal Fetal Medicine at the Raleigh campus. I should be thinking the worst. And I was – just a few minutes before. But I really, really can’t think about it right now. I need to focus on something else, anything else. You see, I’m here because my midwife, just hours earlier, couldn’t hear my baby’s heartbeat. Jordan and I arrive at Baby & Company, the…

Baby Two: 6 Weeks Pregnant

I’m 6 weeks pregnant, y’all! *Please note this post may contain affiliate links from which I make a small compensation. If you purchase anything from these links, I truly appreciate you supporting this blog! Baby Lamotta is due September 28th, 2017! Today is 2/3/17 which means I’m 6 weeks, 1 day. Baby is the size of a lentil! Baby is a… no clue! Doctor’s appointment this week? No, but I did go tour Baby and Company, where I plan to give birth and have my maternity care.  Current mood: Queasy and hungry…

First Three Month Favorites

*Please note, this post was originally published on my former blog “Here Comes Baby One” on August 4, 2012. I’m republishing this content on this website to have it all in one place. Hope you enjoy digging up memory lane with me! This post contains affiliate links* ________________________________________ Below are my MUST HAVES for the first three months of little Jude’s life. They have helped me so much. I’m sure there is more I could add to this list but these are my favorites.      Boppy Nursing Pillow and Positioner, Peaceful Jungle  If you are breastfeeding…

Jude: One Month Old

*Please note, this post was originally published on my former blog “Here Comes Baby One” on June 19, 2012. I’m republishing this content on this website to have it all in one place. Hope you enjoy digging up memory lane with me! ________________________________________ I cannot believe it’s been a month already! Jude is an angel and I am so blessed to have such a perfect little boy. He is already getting so big! When we took him to his first doctor’s appointment a week after he was born he already weighed 7lbs 10oz and I…

Jude’s Birth Story

*Please note, this post was originally published on my former blog “Here Comes Baby One” on May 20, 2012. I’m republishing this content on this website to have it all in one place. Hope you enjoy digging up memory lane with me! ________________________________________ The final belly shot! If you had been reading my blog, you knew that I was supposed to be going in to HP Regional Hospital on the morning of the 17th. I was supposed to call at 6am that morning and they would tell me what time to come in to be admitted. Well, that didn…

Baby One: 40 Weeks

*Please note, this post was originally published on my former blog “Here Comes Baby One” on May 16 & 19, 2012. I’m republishing this content on this website to have it all in one place. Hope you enjoy digging up memory lane with me! ________________________________________ The End of a Pregnancy and the Beginning of Motherhood = TOMORROW Tomorrow is D-Day! (unless I go into labor between now and then) Tomorrow morning at 6am I will call High Point Regional Hospital and they will tell me what time to come in and be admitted for my induction. They will put…

Baby One: 39 Weeks

*Please note, this post was originally published on my former blog “Here Comes Baby One” on May 12, 2012. I’m republishing this content on this website to have it all in one place. Hope you enjoy digging up memory lane with me! ________________________________________ Update: So I went to the doctor on Wednesday and was hooked up to a machine that monitored his heart rate and such for a while. Dr Patel and I talked a little and he said that he wanted to avoid inducing as much as possible, especially since I don’t want any pain meds…

Baby One: The Nursery

*Please note, this post was originally published on my former blog “Here Comes Baby One” on May 6, 2012. I’m republishing this content on this website to have it all in one place. Hope you enjoy digging up memory lane with me! ________________________________________ So I know I’ve posted a couple pictures here and there of previews of the nursery.. and now (minus needing to be vacuumed) it is FINALLY clean and everything is in its place! The only thing that still needs to be done is to actually put pictures in the frames but I am still…

Baby One: 38 Weeks

*Please note, this post was originally published on my former blog “Here Comes Baby One” on May 3, 2012. I’m republishing this content on this website to have it all in one place. Hope you enjoy digging up memory lane with me! ________________________________________   BIG NEWS:  I had a doctor’s appointment on Monday and the doctor asked if I had an ultrasound lately and I said no so they scheduled one for me for Wednesday. Looking back, she did seem a littletoo  reassuring when she kept saying they just want to check his size, that’s all…