Category_Medical Motherhood>NICU Mom Life 7 Things a First Time Mom Experiences in the NICU Becoming a mother is supposed to be a happy, carefree time. But pregnancy isn’t easy for everyone. There are many types of complications that can come up, from fairly mild...
Birth Story My Twin Birth Story: Welcoming Axel and Jaxon - TTTS Survivors They’re here! OMG. I can’t believe I’m typing this. Axel and Jaxon, our TTTS survivors, arrived by total surprise on April 26th, 2018. Their due date was July 24! I...
Category_Medical Motherhood>TTTS Pregnancy How to Stay Positive During a High-Risk Pregnancy The past 6 months have been tough. Most women have concerns at some point during their pregnancy, and normal worries about the baby/babies’ health, what to eat/not eat, activities to...
Bumpdate TTTS Pregnancy Update: Week 25 + Second Amnioreduction Another whirlwind week! I’m well into my 25th week in this complicated pregnancy and of course, the further along I get, the better I feel about things (survivability should anything...
Category_Medical Motherhood>TTTS Pregnancy Amnioreduction for Stage 1 TTTS: My Experience What a rollercoaster week! Less than 72 hours after being admitted for my TTTS laser surgery that didn’t end up happening, I was back in the hospital for an amnioreduction...
Category_Medical Motherhood>TTTS Pregnancy TTTS Laser Surgery: My Experience and What Happened Whew. TTTS laser surgery was something I knew we might need since the topic first came up around 16-18 weeks, but I didn’t think it would be so soon. I...
Category_Medical Motherhood>TTTS Pregnancy Twin Pregnancy Update: Week 22 with TTTS I haven’t posted this month so far as it’s been quite the unexpected whirlwind. At 18 weeks, I began to show signs of TTTS (which I wrote about here), but...
Bumpdate Twin Pregnancy Update: Week 18 Time is flying! I’m now over halfway there! I had one of my routine 2-week ultrasounds last Thursday and it went well, although there was a large discrepancy in fluid...
Bumpdate Pregnancy Update: Week 17 Week 17! That’s crazy. I am almost halfway there! (Mono-di twin pregnancies are considered full term at 36 weeks, due to complications that can arise after that.) I look about...
Category_Medical Motherhood>TTTS Pregnancy Must Have Pregnancy Products to Survive the First Trimester Now that I’m past the first trimester, I’m starting to feel like a human being again (although a nauseous human being still). Those first few months were a tough ride....
Category_Medical Motherhood>TTTS Pregnancy How I Found Out I Was Pregnant with Twins! Of course, when I first took a pee stick test, I wasn’t thinking about being pregnant with twins at all. Who does, right? I was just thinking, “Positive” or “Not...
Category_Medical Motherhood>TTTS Pregnancy Twin Pregnancy Announcement Photos (+13 Week Update) Follow me on Bloglovin’ and never miss a new post! Wow, 13 weeks! The last time I posted here was mid-December. Whoops. Time really got away from me over the...