Ingenue Mom

Image Source I am currently working on a list of links & resources to "mom" blogs that I think are interesting! In my search, I came across this post at Dinnercraft. I completely agree with them and I like it! I've found just in my decisions and opinions I've been making lately that everyone has an input - especially moms. Everyone has an opinion and a perspective of the "best" way to do things. I think it's unnecessary. I love the advice and I think that as a future mom, I will definitely rely on the community of other moms who have been there. But it is important that we remember that we are a community, not separate teams fighting against each other. When it comes to the decisions I've been making lately about a birth plan, diapers, registry items and things like that, the final breakdown is that these decisions have more to do with ME than anything else. We make decisions based on what type of parent we are going to be. This doesn't nece

We have decided on the cloth diapers we want to use! I am very aware that cloth diapers are not for everyone and I fully support any parent's decision to choose what works best for them. For many people - actually most people probably - cloth offers more of a hassle than it is really worth. And that makes sense to me. Lewis and I have just decided after lots of discussion and thought that cloth diapers is the way we want to go. We have been so blessed to find a wonderful woman who is going to watch our baby in the spring and she is completely fine with doing cloth with us! I am so happy about that!! I realize the poopy diapers will not be the most fun, but I guess the way I see it I'll be dealing with poopy diapers either way. I've just chosen to go a route where I'm throwing the diaper into a washing machine rather than into a trash can. (Extra rinse, hot water and some oxy-clean should be just fine!) I have heard from several people in my mom's generation that the

It's a little early for this, but I've been looking at maternity pictures that I like!! I want ideas for when I have pictures taken! I found these pictures below at this site and I love them!! I've also got a link to pictures I found on Flickr! What do you think? Where did you get maternity pictures taken? Flickr pictures... Pregnancy - BlueSkyFotos

So we had our first Centering class last week. We loved it!! It was better than I even expected! It's so awesome getting to have time with the nurse-midwife for 2 hours rather than the normal 15 minutes or so that you see them at a regular pre-natal visit. For those of you who will have kids or have kids again, I highly suggest it if your doctor offers it! I had never even heard of it before this! There were six couples there, so Lewis had other men there to talk to as well. It was so great for me to hear the other women talk about what was going on with them. A couple of them even talked about nightmares they were having that sounded exactly like mine! (I've been having trouble with nightmares pretty much every night for the past few weeks.) I voiced some of my concerns and questions and was just so comforted by the response of the nurse-midwife and the other women who understood! This time they talked about the discomforts of pregnancy and how to alleviate some of them and wh

I had to make this one brighter because it was too dark. I'm not actually THAT pale. Close, though.

This was last week.