Tag: postpartum recovery
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Two Months In: Recovery, Chaos and a Festival Lesson
Two months in as a family of five, and I finally feel like my own body again. Here is what that has meant, and what it cost us to learn it at a festival four hours from home. Too much to write, too little time B turned two months old a few days ago. It…
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Meet Ms and Mr: The Siblings Behind Our Family of Five
B gets most of the airtime right now for obvious reasons. But there are two other remarkable people in this house who deserve their own moment. This post is about siblings in a family of five. Mr: the boy they said wouldn’t Mr is two years and five months old. He has Down syndrome. When…
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Seven Weeks In: Our First Solo Day with Three Kids
I had been dreading it and planning for it and quietly hoping it would not be as hard as I feared. It was not. But I want to write it all down anyway, because today – my first solo day with three kids – mattered. Seven weeks with our boy B is seven weeks old…
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One Month as a Family of Five: The Real and the Raw
B is thriving, the love is real, and the help has been scarce. An honest update from one month as a family of five. One month in One month as a family of five. I keep saying it to myself to make it feel real. B is one month old and he is, without question,…
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Three Weeks as a Family of Five: Chaos, Love and Getting Through
Nobody tells you that survival mode can also be full of joy. That you can be completely overwhelmed and completely in love at the same time. Here is what our first three weeks as a family of five really looked like. Home on day four We left the hospital on day four. B was nursing…
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From Recovery Room to Going Home: Our First Days with Baby B
The first days after C-section – the drugs, the waiting, the nurse I will never forgive, the moment milk arrived, and the day we finally walked out the door. Three hours in recovery The best way I can describe the recovery unit is this: imagine being submerged in something thick and slow-moving, where the lights…