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This little one- my C.- is kind of crazy. She’s stubborn and silly and sometimes, quite honestly, maddening. There are times she acts helpless and whiny and that is like nails on a chalkboard to me. And, so, sometimes I forget… She is tough. She just doesn’t have to prove it everyday like she [...]
They are not words I looked forward to hearing. I expected a child of mine to be older before a teacher broke the news to me: “We had to separate your child from her peer.” I figured, eventually, maybe one of them would get in a fight. Or be bullied. Perhaps a [...] “Oh, aren’t YOU just the cutest thing in the world???” “I just want to take that little one home with me!” “Aw, just look at that adorable little girl!” “She is the most precious thing…” They hear it all the time. The one everyone’s talking about? Yeah, she doesn’t much notice, though she [...] C. is five now. Five. I watch this little skinny-mini who adores all things pink and princess and remember when I wondered if she’d ever be able to see, let alone distinguish colors. I listen to her thunder across the floor with utterly graceless dance steps and recall the developmental pediatricians’ cautioning words, [...] My name is JessieLeigh. I was raised in a comfortable, upper middle-class home. I have a college degree. I am happily married. I have always been healthy. I do not use drugs, drink heavily, or participate in “risky” behaviors. I sought prenatal care at the start of my pregnancies. My blood pressure, sugar levels, [...] “She’s a feisty one,” they told us in the NICU. “That’s good news. The feisty ones do better- we love a good fighter. Of course… just remember that you’re the ones who are going to have to live with her.” How right they were. I attended my almost 5 year old’s annual review [...] Let me be very clear, first of all… this is not an exhaustive list. Nor is it a list of the things that TRULY got me through those early days- things like prayer, support, education, lodging near my baby, etc. No, this is a list of three things that I wouldn’t necessarily have known [...] When babies arrive way too early, the focus is, of course, on the baby. As well it should be. But, after the new arrival, most of the concern seems to fall on the mommies. There are a lot of good reasons for this, most notably the fact that Mommy has gone through birth, often [...] This week’s “Three Things Thursday” is short and sweet… but oh-so-important. Here are just three (of many!) Bible verses to reflect on and seek comfort from when your baby arrives way too early… Romans 12:12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer Jeremiah 17:7 But blessed is the man who [...] One thing you might not know about me is that I’m very handy with the metric system. Not only do I have a pretty good “mental image” of just how big a centimeter, liter, or meter is, I am also pretty quick at converting into our more usual English system. Maybe this seems like [...] |
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