Note: This is a post about my feelings around working part time versus full time and balancing work with parenthood. This is about my personal struggle, and I hope this post doesn’t come off as insensitive to those who work full time. I know lots of moms work full time, either by choice or because […]
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In the TTC world, so many of us have heard “a line is a line!” That’s usually a good thing — it means that even a faint line on a pregnancy test means hurray, you’re pregnant! Unfortunately, while trying to conceive our second child, I learned that a line isn’t always a line. I always […]
I got my Mirena IUD out a little over a month ago. I was really happy with the Mirena for the three-plus years I had it. The side effects from the hormones were not as extreme as those I had experienced in the past with birth control pills, plus I didn’t have to think about […]
After we were married, Mac Daddy and I knew we wanted to have a child, but weren’t sure when. Our wedding was in September 2012, and I can still clearly remember going for a walk a short while later, deciding that we’d get ourselves onto a rough five-year plan and start trying to conceive in spring […]
At some point, most of us go from trying to prevent to trying to conceive. This is one of those transitions in life that is scary, and oftentimes, totally new territory. For me, I read everything I could get my hands on in the months before we officially switched over to TTC. To be frank, […]
I’ve mentioned that Mr. Cotton Candy and I are planning on starting TTC sometime this fall; the time hasn’t come yet, but we’ve already begun a flurry of projects and I’ve been composing to-do lists at a pace that makes me think this is more than just normal post-vacation busyness. We’re not exactly doing any […]
The plan was always to make babies after our wedding. My husband really wanted to make that happen before we got married, but I held my ground on getting married first and the plan became all systems go after the wedding. On our honeymoon something shifted (okay, we found out more friends were expecting) and we discussed that we should […]
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