I’ve had an on-again off-again relationship with Crossfit for the past few years, but something’s really clicked for me recently and I’m excited to call myself a Crossfitter. I know many people at this point are familiar with Crossfit, but before I get into why I enjoy it, I thought I would give a brief explanation […]
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Just the other day I realized that it had been a while since I had written a blog post—and by a while I mean five months—so I figured it was time I jump back in! We have gone through a ton of big life changes recently, and now that the dust is settling I thought I […]
Let me be honest right off the bat—this started out as a comprehensive post about sleep training but it totally got derailed. So instead, I decided to share with you about our overall experience in sleep training, seeing as it took us several attempts. Sometimes sleep training is messy and doesn’t work the first time—something I learned first […]
When I was first found out that Little Deer had MSPI, I was completely overwhelmed. Altering my diet while also being a first time mom (and essentially a single mom with my husband deployed) seemed unattainable. It was so helpful for me to read about other people’s journeys through the MSPI process and I found it very encouraging to […]
While I was pregnant with Baby Deer, I often worried about what breastfeeding would be like the second time around. As a veteran mom, I knew there would be some challenges. Breastfeeding Little Deer was arguably one of the most difficult things I had ever done. Latch issues, an oversupply, dietary changes with Little Deer’s MSPI… it […]
Becoming a mother to two children has been absolutely wonderful is so many ways. Little Deer is such a great big sister. She likes to kiss Baby Deer and give her pats on the head, grab a burp cloth and wipe Baby Deer’s mouth if she sees her spit-up, and even hand me a diaper […]
My due date for Baby Deer was October 15th. With Little Deer I waited until I was 40 weeks and 6 days along before taking castor oil to help get things going. That worked quite well and she was born the following day at 41 weeks. I was hoping that Baby Deer might come a […]
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