Olivia at 2 months: Every little thing she does is magic

  Again, another month has passed. I know I blogged weekly when I was pregnant, which was actually the most I blogged since I started this page. But now I have a newborn and suddenly it’s been a month since my last post and wow, how time flies. It’s not…

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Olivia at 1 month: How has it already been a month?

This month has been nothing like I imagined. And don’t ask me what I imagined-I had no concept of what a newborn was like. I mean, you go through years of infertility treatments. You know IVF. You know embryo quality. I was just starting to understand pregnancy when WHAM. Baby.…

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The Hospital Stay (Olivia’s Birth Story, Part 3)

If you haven’t read part 1 and part 2 of her birth story you can read them here. Some of the events of the hospital stay are hard to remember. Especially those first two days. There are some things I remember in detail quite vividly, but just don’t want to…

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Olivia’s Birth Photos

When I thought about birth photography, there was really only one photographer that came to mind. We first met Erin and Andi, of erin and i Photography when we hired them for our wedding photos. Who would have thought we’d stay in contact all these years? (Thanks, Facebook) When we…

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I fell in love in an operating room (Or: Olivia’s Birth Story, Part 2)

Ok, so where was I? If you missed part one of the birth story, you can read it here. So, water breaks at 4:30 am Wednesday, November 18th. Where did that come from? It’s actually pretty crazy considering in a few hours I was supposed to get up and get…

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