Category: Baby #3

My Little Snuggle Bug

  Rief arrived about seven weeks ago now and was my biggest labor of love yet. In addition to being informed of his cleft lip during pregnancy, and a little concern about low fluids during the end of it, there were labor room difficulties that I certainly didn’t foresee. Say, “Can you imagine what women [...]

Sunday September 9th, 2012 in Baby #3, Homemaking | 2 Comments »

Baby #3 Update

“There are no accidents, no mistakes, and everything is still on schedule.” -                                                              -C. H. Spurgeon In two days, on Wednesday the 11th, we will drive up to Chapel Hill for what should be our final prenatal doctor visit. My original due date was the 24th, but last Thursday they told us to pack our [...]

Monday July 9th, 2012 in Baby #3, Homemaking | 2 Comments »

Baby’s First Visit to UNC

Our verdict is in, and Chapel Hill is AMAZING…and not just because they gave us good news! On Tuesday we met with a genetics counselor and a maternal fetal medicine specialist at the UNC Women’s Hospital, and also had another ultrasound done. Each person we spoke to was extremely thorough, taking time and care with us like [...]

Wednesday April 4th, 2012 in Baby #3 | 4 Comments »

The 1 in 700

I knew something was different about this pregnancy. Don’t ask me how. But I kept waiting for them to confirm something was wrong. A cyst that turned out to be nothing. Something else on my part that went away. An echogenic focus in the baby’s stomach that sent us to have a level 2 ultrasound. [...]

Thursday March 29th, 2012 in Baby #3 | 7 Comments »