Pregnancy Ups Date night at home. Sunday night Neil and I enjoyed a date night at home. It was one of those date nights where it took us hours to prepare dinner and we spent time in the kitchen cooking together. Neil prepared a batch of bread and made homemade burger buns. He also prepped … [Read more…]
CRAVINGS Recipes: Pasta With Tomato And Olive Sauce/ Thanksgiving Sides
Neil and I started considering baby names around week 17 of our pregnancy. We sat down and both made our own list of about 10 boy names and 10 girl names (although I am pretty sure that my boy name list was like 15 and girl was around 6). Once we finished our individual lists … [Read more…]
Head on over to Running With Tongs to read my 37 Week update and then head over to our Facebook page to check out photos from my 37 week photo session (there are some pretty entertaining photos).
One of the topics we discussed in our Natural Baby Care Class was the benefits of babywearing and the various babywearing options. There are so many great benefits to discuss as well as a variety of babywearing options out there, it can be really overwhelming to figure out which style is best for you. In … [Read more…]
A few weeks ago we had our Natural Baby Care Class with our Doula Sarah. In this class we discussed a variety of topics which included: Attachment Theory/Parenting*: We discussed this theory of parenting based on Attachment Parenting International‘s (API) Eight Principles of Parenting which include: Prepare for Pregnancy, Birth & Parenting Feed with Love … [Read more…]
Downs Water spots. It seems this week that someone at work has enjoyed leaving a watery mess on the sink, allowing the water to drip off the edge. Now that my belly is so huge, I have to lean in a little further to reach the knobs which has resulted in a watery mess all over … [Read more…]
This past Saturday our friend Cate hosted our baby shower and what a beautiful day it turned out to be! It was sunny, warm and the perfect location. Right on the lake. We enjoyed a spectacular spread of salads, chips, veggies, dips, and stuffed grape leaves. We also dug into this bassinet of fruit, complete … [Read more…]
When it came to creating our registry I must have created, deleted and re-created our registry at least four times before finally settling on items we really wanted/needed. At first I just went by what I liked and then I started to do more and more research. Reading tons of blog posts and recommendations from … [Read more…]
I just received an e-mail in my inbox from TheBump.com informing me of the 10 must-dos before labor. Now, we already have a list of our own but I was curious to see what they had to say. Here are their 10 must-dos: Take a birthing class. This we have already done. We took a birthing … [Read more…]
