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Preparing for a Joyful Delivery Day
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Written by: Alan on Friday, March 2nd, 2012 | 
When a woman is expecting, she is generally in a constant swing between happiness and excitement and a bit of nerves. While she knows she can depend on her natural nurturing instinct and the help of family, friends and her partner to help with delivery and motherhood, it’s also wise for her to prepare her health and home to help make the transition into motherhood an easy one.
One of the first things to do after finding out you’re pregnant is to set up a prenatal check-up. Pregnant women should be sure to start taking prenatal vitamins as soon as possible and eat a healthy, well balanced diet. One other thing to consider during the first trimester is whether or not to have screening tests done. Blood tests and ultrasounds can screen for a variety of chromosomal disorders. Some moms feel better having this information ahead of time, but because these tests are not 100 percent accurate, some moms feel that they will worry too much and opt not to have them done.
In the second trimester, family and friends may begin to plan your baby shower. Registering for gifts online or at a baby store can help ensure that you get the things you need for baby. A baby superstore will give a list of new baby “must haves”; this is a good guideline, but new moms shouldn’t feel the need to mark everything on the list. Ask any mom friends for what they felt was good to have and what was unnecessary. This will help a new mom-to-be determine what she really needs for baby.
After the baby shower is the best time for the mom-to-be to go shopping. This way she can pick up any items she was hoping for but didn’t get. If mom-to-be didn’t get a car seat, picking one up at this time is a good idea. A travel system comes with both car seat and stroller, but a convertible car seat will function into toddlerhood, so researching the various types of car seats can help mom decide which type to go with.
It’s never too early to start asking your doctor questions and preparing a birth plan for delivery day. Take a childbirth class to become educated about pain management options and feeding methods. Ask about optional procedures like circumcision and cord blood banking. Cord blood banking is when the baby’s umbilical cord blood is collected and saved for your family, to be potentially used in a medical treatment in the future.
As the due date approaches, Mom should definitely pack a hospital bag with lots of comfy clothes, including nursing bras and tanks, cozy socks, and undergarments that will pull up and over the post-partum belly. Mom won’t need to pack much for baby other than a going home outfit because the hospital will provide diapers, shirts, hats and blankets. At the end of the day, remaining stress-free is the best thing Mom can do as she prepares for the life to come!
This article was written by Alan Cassidy, an active writer within the blogging community covering maternity and childbirth, and always advocating for infant and children’s health. Connect with him on Twitter @ACassidy22
My Famous Daughter
If anyone of you are friends with me on Facebook, you know how I love to post things that my children say or do or I’ll post about wedding planning and the sort. Very rarely do I complain or post useless crap like writing an itinerary of my day.
A friend of mine just told me that Lyra should have her own show or website just for the things she says. And it reminded me… Lyra DID have a website just for the things she would say. It lasted less than a year because I couldn’t keep up with it due to school and work and kids. But now that three years have come and gone and Lyra is funnier and more clever than ever before, I’m seriously considering on bringing the website back.
Of course it’ll be hard to start from scratch again and this time will be FIVE years worth of quotes, pictures, videos, etc. instead of only two. It will take an enormous amount of time to organize it all, but I really think it will be worth it.
Yeah, it might seem like I’m one of those crazy moms who create a Facebook profile for their two-year-old. I feel like this is different. And it’s a great way to keep memories. I’m gonna do it.
What Hurts the Most
What makes people act the way they do? Why would someone’s future husband talk to another girl about cheating? Is it out of fear? Insecurity? Boredom? If someone could answer this for me, it would solve a lot.
I’m not saying that I’m perfect. I’m far from it. I’ve made my mistakes and was forgiven after a lot of apologizing and working on gaining the trust back. And I learned from my mistakes. I was lucky enough to be forgiven, why would I want to screw that up again? Maybe I’m just better at learning than other people are. But you’d think after the second, third, and now fourth time, that they would think, “Hey, I’ve done this before and I always get caught and then there’s a chance my fiancée will leave me for good and not forgive me this time. But I’ll do it again anyway!”
Maybe it’s the thrill of knowing he could be caught? I honestly don’t know. But it breaks my heart. It’s probably the worst hurt anyone could bare. When you love someone so much that you can’t live without them and they let you down because they want to tell girls that they may be thinking about cheating… On their fiancée who just had a baby 3-weeks ago.
Y’all are probably saying, “Well he told her he was thinking about it. At least he didn’t do it.” Yeah, okay. The word “cheating” shouldn’t even be coming out of his mouth unless it during a game of poker.
I don’t know how many girls he has talked to about this except the ones I’ve actually “caught”. My count is at four already. I know there’s more, but he won’t admit to it.
I’m probably crazy for posting this, but I needed to get everything off my chest, out of my brain, and out in the open. I need to be able to sleep at night and not starve myself because I’m so hurt. I thought if this happened again, I’d be able to handle it. Yes, I’m handling it a hell of a lot better than any other time. There shouldn’t have been “any other time”. There shouldn’t have been a “this time”.
I’m stupid for staying and I’m scatterbrained. I don’t know what to do.
Hey Jude
Yesterday my life changed once again. I had a scheduled c-section for the 23rd of January to deliver my second son and third child. Since I’ve had two c-sections in the past, everyone said I should be a pro at it. Well, every pregnancy is different (and I will blog about all three of mine later).
First off, Dustin and I were late to the hospital. I’m very punctual and Dustin, well, he’s definitely not. We were just about at the hospital and it was five minutes past our appointment time. I guess I was just overwhelmed with all kinds of emotions since I was about to have major surgery again, become a mother again, and we were late as always. I bawled my eyes out.
This delivery was very different from my last two. There was a different doctor doing the surgery. I had the spinal done THREE times because they didn’t get it right. I bawled my eyes out again because I read about the risks of having multiple c-sections and I’ve been convinced that I was going to die. But I never felt a thing. The procedure took a total of 20 minutes and even the pressure of them pushing on my belly didn’t hurt. Everything went smoothly and before I knew it, the baby was out and my tubes were tied and I was all sewn up ready to go to the recovery room.
The rest of the story isn’t as exciting as my last two deliveries. It was scheduled, I wasn’t dying or high risk, and the baby was perfect.
Jude Isaiah Mullis was born on January 23rd, 2012 at 1:03pm EST. He was 6lbs and 12oz and 19 3/4 inches long.
He is my last child ever and he’s absolutely perfect. 
Back again!
So obviously I don’t take blogging as serious as I did when I was 14-years-old, but that’s okay. I have the good excuse of being a working mother. 
I was revamping this entire website and had it in maintenance mode, but I found out that two of my real life friends started blogging also! I’ll still be fixing up this website and purging things that are no longer needed. Maybe even a new layout if I can ever find time to make one, haha!
Hopefully this is the start of a long-time, regular blog. I’m going to retrieve as many old blog posts as I possibly can. I know almost all of my posts from 2003-2009 will not be able to be retrieved. Which makes me sad, but I guess that I will have to live.
Take care!
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