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Figuring Out Fall

Last Sunday Greg got up around 3:00 AM to change Nathan’s diaper and realized that it had been dry for six hours. Over the last couple weeks, I noticed that he was retaining fluids for three hours at a...

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Not An Experiment

I’ve been anticipating this moment. Dreading this moment. Did not want to do it. I knew it was coming though. Today a nurse taught me how to cath my baby. It was almost surreal. I watched the nurse do...

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Marathon Week

I feel like I just crossed the finish line. It wasn’t an easy race either. I put in a lot of sweat and tears. I had to walk part of the way. And I got pretty beat up by unexpected hurdles along the...

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A Month of Pain

Our little buddy is going on a month of pain that we haven’t fully been able to diagnose. I’m reliving his newborn months. Not fully, but sorta. It started out as reflux. Classic reflux symptoms. We...

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Just Trying to Enjoy Christmas

All month-long I’ve been trying to “Just enjoy Christmas.” To be honest December has been a hard month for us. Little boy had three trips to the ER, one visit to Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston,...

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Pain Update

Pain. It’s not a fun topic, whether it’s emotional or physical, our human tendency is to avoid it at all costs. Over the years I’ve learned how to lean into emotional pain better and better. To not...

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“Gaining a Better Understanding of GERD”: My Post on PreemieBabies101

This fall we decided to go ahead and give Nathan a Nissen Fundoplication, a surgery which wraps the top of the stomach around the esophagus to prevent any food and stomach material from coming back up...

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New York Specialist Adventures, Part 2

We started “the day at the doctor” off with a battle over whether or not our eldest child was going to take a shower. One could argue the need to get unstinky in a stinky city. He had a point, but he...

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Figuring Out Fall

Last Sunday my husband got up around 3:00 AM to change Nathan’s diaper and realized that it had been dry for six hours. Over the last couple weeks, I noticed that he was retaining fluids for three...

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Not An Experiment

I’ve been anticipating this moment. Dreading this moment. Did not want to do it. I knew it was coming though. Today a nurse taught me how to cath my baby. It was almost surreal. I watched the nurse do...

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Marathon Week

I feel like I just crossed the finish line. It wasn’t an easy race either. I put in a lot of sweat and tears. I had to walk part of the way. And I got pretty beat up by unexpected hurdles along the...

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A Month of Pain

Our little buddy is going on a month of pain that we haven’t fully been able to diagnose. I’m reliving his newborn months. Not fully, but sorta. It started out as reflux. Classic reflux symptoms. We...

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Just Trying to Enjoy Christmas

All month-long I’ve been trying to “Just enjoy Christmas.” To be honest December has been a hard month for us. Little boy had three trips to the ER, one visit to Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston,...

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Pain Update

Pain. It’s not a fun topic, whether it’s emotional or physical, our human tendency is to avoid it at all costs. Over the years I’ve learned how to lean into emotional pain better and better. To not...

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“Gaining a Better Understanding of GERD”: My Post on PreemieBabies101

This fall we decided to go ahead and give Nathan a Nissen Fundoplication, a surgery which wraps the top of the stomach around the esophagus to prevent any food and stomach material from coming back up...

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New York Specialist Adventures, Part 2

We started “the day at the doctor” off with a battle over whether or not our eldest child was going to take a shower. One could argue the need to get unstinky in a stinky city. He had a point, but he...

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The Strength to Keep Going (Medical Travel, a Update)

As we began to understand the medical complexities of Nathan’s body, I remember saying to myself, “We will never travel for doctors. We have specialists here and I will not sacrifice the needs of my...

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