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Taboo Topics – Things Nobody Told Me About Pregnancy and Beyond
Nobody told me(fill in the blank). How often have you said this or heard one of your girlfriends say this about something pregnancy or post-pregnancy related? While pregnant with my first child, I felt like I was saying it all the time.
Giving Birth To Someone Else’s Triplets: The Emotional Roller Coaster
It took me a little longer than expected to write the second half (see link to first half below) of the triplets birth story because, frankly, getting things back to normal around here has been difficult. Here I am recovering from major surgery to remove three babies from inside me. My husband could only take a few days off work and once he went back, it was just me and my four children. I had no help, and I had four children depending on me to feed them, change them, bathe them, and provide meals and snacks. I was unbearably sore at times and experiencing emotional highs and lows from wacky hormones. I was an absolute mess. But more on that laterback to where I left off, in recovery after the c-section.
Using a Communication Log to Work With Children With Special Needs
In my last post, I discussed how an “earnings chart” can help children with special needs. This week, I want to tackle our “communication log,” which is directly linked to our son’s earnings chart.
10 Ways To Help Your Child Become A Better Writer
If your kids are like mine, they don’t take well to their parents giving them advice on much of anything — academics, athletics, you name it. In many ways, I am thankful for this. My kids are independent and have learned to do their homework on their own.But I had to step in recently to help my middle-schooler with a term paper that needed a lot of help. I started with my red pen …
10 Things You Swore You’d Never Say
Theres always that moment when you hear yourself say something to your child and mentally cringe. For some of us mothers, it happens once every now and then; for others, its a lot more frequent.