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I feel like me again. Marc told me over the weekend that he felt like he had gotten his wife back, and I think he’s right. Between the pregnancy and the first week home with Julianna, I was not myself for a while there, but now feel as though I’m waking up. If that makes …

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She’s not even eight pounds yet (although back to her birth weight according to the doctor’s scale today – YAY for breastfeeding), but somehow Julianna just completed the family. It feels perfect now. I don’t know that it felt as though she was missing before, but there’s a different feel to it now. I spent …

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It takes guts and brains to be able to handle four children under the age of six before you’re thirty. It takes all of that, plus so much more to do it as a single parent. I have three children, and a completely involved loving husband and there’s a lot of the time when I …

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Is there anything more amazing than a tiny baby? With huge eyes, a little pointed chin and a look of perpetual confusion on her face? She’s alternately confused or indignant, with the sweetest little smiles and coos sprinkled in between. I can’t stop holding her and have to talk myself into putting her down to …

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One week old today – and I feel like it’s been initiation by fire in a lot of ways. The breastfeeding battles have subsided, for the most part. Julianna’s doing so much better, in terms of latching on. She’s nursing every hour, or hour and a half, falling asleep at the breast each time. It’s …

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I started writing down everything this child does. And even though I’ve only been doing it for half a day so far, it’s already helped to set my mind at ease. With Julianna, I’m only as good as her last feeding – and the nursing sessions last night were really hard. She cried for almost …

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I’m unbelievably thrilled – she still fights it, but she’s nursing without the little plastic shield. I’m so happy 🙂

I’m somewhat of a breastfeeding snob. I know this about myself, am not thrilled about it, but on the same hand, I nursed Sam for so ridiculously long and had such a hard time with most of my family, everyone thought I was insane for continuing. So I sort of earned the right to be …

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I have much, much to post about, and no time yet to do it… but wanted to make this first one after Julianna’s birth be for my husband. Not only because without him, I wouldn’t have any of this – my beautiful Jessica, my sweet, sweet Sammy or this amazing baby girl who I already …

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Many, many posts to make, much, much to talk about – but no time to do it yet :-). Julianna is BEAUTIFUL, amazing, gorgeous, I’m completely in love a thousand times over. She was born at 2:01 pm on Thursday, after two pushes and the best labor and delivery I could have imagined. Seven pounds, …

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