Baby prep is in full swing and this DIY padsicles recipe was a must on my to-do list! This is baby #4 and yet I’ve never made my own padsicles before so I’m excited to give them a try after delivery!
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What’s in my Home Birth Kit? | Getting Ready for Baby!
Baby #4’s birth is quickly approaching and it’s time to get set up for our home birth! Yep – we’re having a planned home birth this time around! (You can read about our unplanned home birth last time here) Obviously this requires a little bit different set of preparation from having a hospital birth so […]
Labor Prep Smoothie Recipe | Get Ready for Labor with this Delicious Drink!
Supposedly eating six dates a day during your last month of pregnancy can make your labor easier and faster. I don’t know if that’s true or not but it doesn’t hurt to try! Here’s a delicious smoothie recipe I came up with to help me get my daily dates in.
Everly’s Birth Story: Our Unplanned Homebirth
Only in my wildest dreams could I have imagined a birth like what Everly’s turned out to be! I know I’m definitely the crunchy, hippie type in many ways, but having a homebirth has never been part of my plans when it comes to birthing my babies. However, apparently my body had other ideas and […]
Free Third Trimester Workout Videos for a Fit Pregnancy
Of my three pregnancies this is the first one where I really focused on healthy habits – eating healthy and exercising. For most of the first two trimesters I just continued working out as I had before getting pregnant (I even trained for a 5k during the first half of my pregnancy and ran the […]
Everly’s Pink and Coral Baby Quilt
While all of my kids’ quilts are very special to me, Everly’s has an additional aspect that the boys’ didn’t have. Some of the fabric from her quilt was actually the leftover polka dot fabric from my flower girls’ dresses in my wedding. I’ve been saving it all these years and intended that someday if […]
Parker’s baby quilt
I thought there was no way I’d get Parker’s baby quilt done before he was born and yet here I am, still pregnant at 40 weeks 2 days and his quilt is totally, 100% done! Yay! I absolutely love how it turned out too! This was by far the quickest and easiest quilt I’ve done. […]
Hudson’s birth story
As you know if you’ve been reading my blog, my plan was to have a natural childbirth. We attended childbirth classes to learn the Bradley method of natural childbirth. Before birth I was fascinated by other people’s natural childbirth stories, especially because it gave me an idea of what to expect. Judging from the amount […]