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Oliver and Leo's Colorful Bedroom

November 16, 2011

I just posted a Before & After of Oliver and Leo’s bed­room over on AmiExpat.com.  We recently bought a house in Ger­many and I’ve been con­sumed with ren­o­vat­ing and dec­o­rat­ing over the last year. In the room, I’m proud­est of the mag­netic chalk­board wall.  It was four days of work, but very worth it.  The kids […]

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Breastfeeding after reduction surgery - the second time around

February 9, 2011

I wrote pre­vi­ously about breast­feed­ing my first child after hav­ing had breast reduc­tion surgery as a teenager.  We suc­cess­fully breast­fed for 27 months, until I stopped pro­duc­ing milk due to hyper­eme­sis dur­ing my sec­ond preg­nancy.  Because I had to pump and sup­ple­ment dur­ing the first six months of Oliver’s life, until he started eat­ing solids […]

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Thoughts on Parenting

January 21, 2011

My New Years Res­o­lu­tion this year was to get back to blog­ging, on all my blogs.  So far, this hasn’t worked out great, Leo is crawl­ing and dur­ing the hour nap that he takes in the morn­ing while Oliver is in preschool, I often try to do things like shower, do laun­dry, wash dishes, or […]

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Leo's Birth Story

July 27, 2010

Leo just turned six weeks old on Sat­ur­day, so yes, it’s taken me a while to get around to writ­ing up our birth story, but it’s been a busy time. The Induc­tion Leo was very big.  His ultra­sound esti­mates were putting him at 5 kg (11 lbs), so the doc­tors wanted to induce before I was […]

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Waiting for the Birth

June 9, 2010

On Fri­day, I hit 39 weeks preg­nant and will be check­ing back in to the hos­pi­tal for a sec­ond attempt at induc­ing labor.  The first attempt, last week, was unsuc­cess­ful. I’m still deal­ing with nau­sea from HG, although it has eased up a bit.  If I don’t go any­where and take it easy, I can […]

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Struggling with Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG): Week 33 Update

May 6, 2010

I had thought I was improv­ing. I’ve thrown up a cou­ple of times since my last update (when I had gone almost a month with­out vom­it­ing), but I have been doing a lot more recently.  I had thought that my increased activ­ity meant I was doing bet­ter, but I went back and reread all my […]

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Happy Earth Day!

April 22, 2010

I thought for Earth Day 2010, I’d high­light some of our pre­vi­ous reviews and posts hav­ing to do with liv­ing greener. If you’re look­ing for more ideas on how to live greener, check out my 15 easy tips for going green and sav­ing money.  I’d also like to rec­om­mend a cou­ple of books for newbies […]

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Fighting Pregnancy Acne

April 13, 2010

Before get­ting preg­nant, I’d always heard about “that preg­nancy glow.” Lit­tle did I know that the “preg­nancy glow” is caused by increased oil pro­duc­tion due to hor­mone fluc­tu­a­tions. For women who have oily or com­bi­na­tion skin, preg­nancy can mean a return of acne like you haven’t dealt with since high school.  For some women, pregnancy […]

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Struggling with Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG): Week 29 Update

April 6, 2010

I haven’t thrown up in 24 days! In case you have no idea what I’m talk­ing about, I have been suf­fer­ing from Hyper­eme­sis Gravi­darum this preg­nancy (I didn’t have it with my first), which causes exces­sive nau­sea and vom­it­ing. I had thought that a lot of the fatigue I felt must be caused by lack of […]

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Our Weaning Story

March 16, 2010

I thought for my 26-week preg­nancy update, I’d tell the story of how, because of hyper­eme­sis gravi­darum, Oliver and I ended our breast­feed­ing rela­tion­ship. While much of the first six months of breast­feed­ing Oliver was spent try­ing to make it week to week, I always had the WHO guide­line of breast­feed­ing for at least two […]

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