Insurance companies ruin lives, and with the way things are going Blue Cross Blue Shield is going to ruin ours. I couldn’t have planned for having twins four months prematurely, but I did plan enough to have health insurance to pay the bills in case of a medical emergency. Yet, here we are with thousands …
At the beginning of the year, I deleted most of my blog posts from last year and started over. I had written so many posts based on what I thought people would be searching for, and they were lame. I didn’t want to have a blog full of how-to’s that I was not practicing in …
There’s this interesting part of having kids who were not supposed to be ok but ended up being ok that I didn’t expect… When your kids are ok, no one weighs in on how to best take care of them. My ex-micro-preemies have nearly a clean bill of health. We only see a couple of …
Sleep training a one-year-old is not high on anyone’s bucket list, I’m sure. Did you know you can start gently babies before they are even four months old—and by the time they are four months, you can go full force? I don’t have any qualifications to talk to anyone about motherhood or sleep training, which …
Call me she of little faith if you must, but when my twins were born I had little reason to believe they would live. The doctors told me it was unlikely; the internet told me the same. I needed to see that it could happen—I needed a real example of 22 weeker* twins, so I …
If you’re just joining me, be sure to check out part 1 of this story here. The brain has a fascinating way of dealing with trauma—it disassociates from reality in an attempt to protect itself. Memories created in a state of trauma are often buried in a long-forgotten broom closet of the brain, making it …
Vivienne and Margot turn one this month. I have two one-year-olds. How the heck did that happen? This is the story of how two babies and a hospital stole my heart. The apex of a rollercoaster is that moment before the drop. It’s the moment where you may want to change your mind, but even …