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Battling Infertility
Rewind 15 years and you will find a very different Katie Marie. Within my first year of marriage, I was diagnosed with PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome). At the time it wasn’t completely detrimental news. Mr. Man and I were still college students and weren’t looking to start a family until at least one of us had our bachelor’s degree and started a career with health benefits. Receiving the diagnosis of PCOS wasn’t something I thought about too much until a year after when we decided we wanted to begin trying to start a family. After a lot of medical testing, 2 major moves with the Air Force, and some pretty physically…
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Chore Charts
I am a list maker…I have a compulsive need to check things off, I even add tasks I’ve already completed to my list just to check it off. My planner is filled to the brim with lists. So…it only makes sense to force my check-list compulsion on my boys. Of course, it has absolutely nothing to do with the little issue of the amigos having selective hearing and a mom who is super tired of repeating herself over…and over…and over……… I even went all out this time with the charts and had them laminated. Now to make sure the novelty of them don’t wear off too quickly with the 3 amigos.…
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Rhys Christian-The Caboose
Rhys’ story began long before he was born. After YoYo joined our family, I knew we still had one little spirit up in heaven waiting to come down to us. As the years went on that feeling would not leave me. The catch is, I really don’t like being pregnant. If children came by a stork, I would have 12 kiddos, but, alas, they don’t. It wasn’t that I had overwhelmingly hard pregnancies in the past, I just don’t enjoy sharing my body. Most women love the feeling of the baby moving around inside. Not me, every time the baby moved all I could envision was the scene from the…
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Wambulance Jar
I am fed up! The whining and complaining have got to stop! So…we now have a ‘wambulance jar’. Do you remember Disney’s The Kid with Bruce Willis? His character is is everything I want to be on a daily basis. Anywho, the whining and complaining have reached an all-time level in this house, so…we now have a wambulance jar. Any time one of the amigos’ whines, complains, is mean, etc they owe a quarter for the jar. Should I be excited we’ve accrued quite a coin collection already? Or should I be disappointed that that means we have whiny kids who have learned not to whine? Either way, Mr. Man and…
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Must Have Baby Items
Each one of my boys has been very different as babies. The twins were bottle fed. Both of them had infant GERD and Keegs was very talented in the art of projectile spit up. I pumped for the first 6 months of their life and weighed down the milk with rice cereal to help keep the milk in their stomachs’ as long as possible before either one regurgitated it. After I no longer pumped we switched to special acid reflux formula that also had rice cereal in it. As for YoYo, I nursed exclusively until he was 13 months old. I totally overproduced milk with Yo and even though he…
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Baby Gear You Don’t Need
When preparing for your little one to make his/her appearance there are definitely a lot of resources, baby stores, and unsolicited opinions. It doesn’t matter if you are expecting your first baby or your eighth baby. While I am definitely not an expert; I have gained some knowledge and experience over the last 10 years of parenting. What do you need? What can you do without? What should you splurge on and what should you save on? Below is a list of items I found I could do without. Wipes Warmer Pee-Pee Teepee Yes, I only have boys, and yes girls don’t use Pee-Pee Teepees…either way I found both the…
