Prelude: Pregnancy (Part 3)

Welcome to Part 3 of the Birth Series.  If you need to get caught up: PART 1 PART 2 And now continuing from where we left off….. “I want to show you something we noticed.” This time, it wasn’t about the congenital heart defect on the screen. It was something more rare….and tough to wrap my head around in the moments that followed. This finding on the ultrasound is what would send me into an unexpected c-section surgery later that {Read More}

Prelude: Pregnancy (Part 2)

To say it’s been a tough 2017 and 2018 for our family (and my husbands) would be quite an understatement.  From my father-in-law getting diagnosed with a secondary cancer (first lymphoma, now prostate cancer) to my dad being in a wheelchair and not able to fully engage with his grandkids the way he used to….was tough. It’s been a hard season. So much weight our moms have had to carry. Such big mountains our dads have had to climb. Surgeries, {Read More}