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I Was Diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes…
When you’re pregnant, all sorts of worries swirl through your head about your health and that of your unborn child. Add being a perpetual worrier and a high-risk mama-to-be, and finding out you’ve developed diabetes while pregnant makes this phase all the more stressful. Being high-risk, my doctor instructed me to get a one-hour glucose…
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Design Board: Woodland Nursery
The drywall is all hung and finishing has begun in the nursery. This means we are only a few steps away from painting the walls and moving in furniture — EEK! As you can imagine, I’ve had the design of our nursery prepared for several months, but it has changed a few times. At first,…
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Recap on Weeks 21-28 of Pregnancy
With increased fatigue and decreased memory, the last eight weeks are being recapped together. Today, I am officially in the third trimester! This is both exhilarating and scary to say — exhilarating because Dean will be here soon and scary because Dean will be here soon! I am definitely feeling the highs and lows of…
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Recap on Weeks 17-20 of Pregnancy (Plus Our Gender Reveal!)
Time is FLYING! It feels as if I blinked and am now half way through my pregnancy. And all I can say is, “Wow.” Throughout the last four weeks, Grant and I celebrated Thanksgiving, enjoyed a quiet long weekend at home, made big progress on the nursery, and marveled at our 20-week ultrasound where we…
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Recap on Weeks 13-16 of Pregnancy
I am officially done with my first month of the second trimester. 16 weeks pregnant — a place I had only dreamed about reaching in the past. And though this last month was nothing compared to my first trimester, it still brought some unexpected twists to my life. Since I did not share much about…
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Our Infertility Chronicles: Follow-Up to Our Last Post
In July, I shared that we would be stopping hormonal fertility treatment due to the development of ovarian cysts from the Clomid medications. (Missed this update? Find it HERE.) I had a difficult time finding closure with the decision to end this first step into fertility treatment. There were a lot of negative daily emotions…
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Our Infertility Chronicles: Treatment Update
Following my last post on our fertility journey, I completed bloodwork and the results came back — our issue seems to be hormonal. This was the news we had hoped to hear. My estrogen and progesterone levels were so low that they were classified as “post-menopausal”. So before doing more tests we would attempt hormone…
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Our Honeymoon in Tennessee: Part 2
This is Part 2 of sharing our honeymoon road trip to Tennessee. Please find Part 1 HERE. Nashville, TN We stayed at a cute little AirBnB in Nashville. After we dropped our bags off at the cottage, we headed to Opry Mills where we hoped to find somewhere to eat. This giant mall rests beside the Grand Ole…