I was quiet during January, wasn't I? I would apologize but truly I needed that time of mostly quiet. Let the words just sit for a while...

Pregnancy. It's beautiful and miserable and miraculous and painful and wonderful and all the rest. It's pregnancy glow and morning s...

Grace is all that is saving me right now. 37 weeks and the end is drawing near. I am feeling its urgency pressing into my days. I am findi...

As this week marks the 37th week of pregnancy, our third baby is now officially "full term". (No rush though, little one; Mommy st...

I watch them playing together, these two boys of mine. They build a city across the living room, each adding pieces here and there, a twis...

Each month, one volunteer with the Natural Parents Network  hosts the  NPN Blog Hop , giving you a chance to discover new natural parenting ...

With less than three months to go, preparations are beginning in earnest for Mystery Baby. Then again, our preparations are rather basic; th...

Welcome to the monthly NPN Blog Hop! Each month, one volunteer with the Natural Parents Network will host this hop, giving you a chance to ...

I'm tired. Really, to say I'm tired feels like a ridiculous understatement. This past month has been the lowest I've felt quit...

For most mothers, pregnancy is exhausting. Being pregnant while taking care of other little children, however, is exhaustion taken to a whol...

A week before the baby turned one , I had a sudden moment of clarity. I turned to my half-asleep husband and said, "oh! That explains ...

I've only been meaning to write this entry for, oh, nine months now. I have such a hard time finding good maternity and nursing clothe...

Our second son was born at 11:37pm on Saturday, December 19, 2009, after less than one hour of labour. A week overdue, I was feeling frust...

The baby is here! A beautiful healthy little boy, yet to be named. :) Soooo...we had a completely unexpected unassisted childbirth! My am...

Babies are born on their birth days, not their due dates. They all come out eventually. This too shall pass.

I told my son, months ago, that the baby would come when there was snow on the ground. Today we had our first snowfall - nothing more than a...

I'm amazed at how different this pregnancy is from my first one. With my son, I was so sick and exhausted that I could barely function ...

31 days to go! (Give or take, of course. I seem to have misplaced my crystal ball.) I'm feeling mostly prepared at this point. After so...

It was recently suggested on a (mainstream) pregnancy forum that those who birth with a midwife at home or in a birthing center do it only f...

17 weeks tomorrow – approaching the halfway mark! I’m at that point where I don’t really “feel” pregnant. I’m no longer sick and exhausted,...