This is a hard memory to revisit, even though I miss my baby that I didn’t get to bring home every day. When you get used to the new normal, if you can even really call it “used to” something like this, it doesn’t make it any easier to dive deep into it. But I don’t want to forget either. As I read through my journal to prepare to write this, I came across something that I hadn’t thought about in...
After my husband & I had been married for 3 years and moved across the country, we decided it was time to have a baby. We tried for a year, with no success. At that point, my OB gave me a few different options to pursue that might increase our chance of pregnancy. I sat in my car after the appointment as my thoughts wandered to some of my dearest friends who were caught up...
I babysat my life away as a young teenager and loved every minute of it. While attending high school I became interested in child development and worked in the high school’s in-house daycare everyday after school; eventually becoming the Home Economics Sterling Scholar for my studies in child development classes and my work at the daycare. I was an Elementary Education major in college, and a...