Not to state the obvious, but it’s true. I’m inserting this post more than a week after my car accident to explain my lack of content. Short version is the guy behind me on the interstate slammed into my car when he was going too […]

We had a follow up appointment with the pediatric gastroenterologist.  We are going to continue to treat baby girl for acid reflux and then we will rescope her in August.  When we weighed her I was extremely happy to find out Baby Girl has finally […]

We saw the allergist today and she has gained a pound in just two weeks!  The pediatric allergist wants us to continue to eliminate milk from her diet.  We are to reintroduce milk products at 18 months. I know we have had a lot of […]

Failure to thrive. It feels like a punch in the guts.  What is going on with my baby girl?  I feed her a lot–just as much as I’ve ever fed her older siblings, yet this little girl cannot seem to put on more than a […]

It seems to me we are a society of quick fixes.  Everywhere you turn in media there are ads for countless medical pills.  There are pills and drugs and creams, for dry mouth, dry eyes, insomnia, depression, acne, irritable bowel syndrome, restless leg syndrome, ed, […]

We’re getting down to the wire now–Baby girl is due in a little over a month. For the last two years I’ve served as the head of our women’s organization at church.  Lately the needs of my family have increased.  The bishop asked me if […]

This pregnancy has been rough.  I’ve been so incredibly sick. But I at the same time I am so grateful to be in this position. I really had given up the idea that we would have any more kids. I didn’t think it was in […]

I’m writing this with a heavy heart.  I’ve been hoping since the last miscarriage that we’d be able to get pregnant again.  My family doesn’t think I should even try.  They all seem to take the ectopic pregnancy and two miscarriages  as a sign I’m […]