I have been putting this blog post off because the words are just not coming to me. I want to give my story and experience justice, but at the same time feel like I am over exaggerating and that it wasn’t “that bad”. I think I, and maybe you and women in general, have a habit of belittling our experiences.…
We have officially been back and living in Utah for almost 2 months. Things are so different now. The last time I lived here I was 19 (I did move back when I was 21 but only for 9 months and even then, I felt that everything had changed and then I was married and moved to Italy before I…
Waiting for my C-section was like waiting for Christmas Day. You know when you were a kid, and all the excitement just kept building up, and you couldn’t sleep the night before, and you woke up every hour? Same thing! I think it would be so much harder to wait for labor to begin naturally because you just wait and…
I always wanted to be a mother. I always thought about who I would marry, what our babies names would be, how many kids we would have (your girl used to want 7 kids…Now I’m good with like 3!). I always imagined how my pregnancy would be and that I wouldn’t be like “all of those pregnant women who are…