A Firefighter's Wife

When I went to the doctor for my 6 week postpartum check-up, we talked about birth control options for me. As I’ve said before, and will say until I die, I hate birth control, especially progesterone only options. So I kind of hemmed and hawed about what to use. Ricky and I [...]

Since the girls have been born, I’ve been trying to pump milk everyday.  I usually do this in the morning while Des plays and the girls sleep.  And every morning Des sees me pump and states that Momma is making milk.
But a few days ago, he started wanting to try to pump milk from his [...]

A few days ago, we went to have our NT ultrasound done.  This is the ultrasound they do for the genetic testing.  They basically measure the neck length of the babies and that helps determine their likelihood of having Down’s Syndrome or another genetic defect.  We had ours done at the hospital and found out [...]

A friend of mine was recently blogging about how people have given her a hard time for breastfeeding her daughter (who’s only barely over a year old), and it got me thinking about my relationship with breastfeeding.  I was breastfed until I was almost 3, and for my entire life, it has been a constant [...]

So today I had to go check in with the doctor about how I’m feeling.  Anyway, so we went over my results.  There had been a concern that maybe I have PCOS (Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome), but I don’t.  In fact, everything came back normal.  So, basically, I was just depressed and bitchy.
The doctor and [...]