Hospital Bag Packing: Oily Edition

Leave a comment

`

I promised that this was coming! It’s been a labor of love though, no pun intended, because I am packing all sorts of oily goodness this third time around. Here’s the thing, just like I said my other hospital packing guide, I am a person who would prefer to err on the side of over-prepared rather than wishing I had something and not have it. Especially in a time like labor, you don’t want to be wishing you had something to give you that extra support you are needing and not have it with you. Now, I don’t think being over-prepared always means over-packing. I have a teeny tiny carry on size suitcase that has everything I need for me and baby during labor and recovery. In my opinion that’s pretty good! So in addition to the other things I feel I might need, I created a guide of all the oily things I’m packing up and lugging to the hospital with me this time around. Plus, I plan on writing an update after I give birth just to see what I actually did use and what I maybe could have lived without.

Read More

Thank You For Sharing

3rd Trimester Favorites

Leave a comment

This trimester has been the toughest for sure for me. I’m actually surprised I’m saying this because I was sick for the entire first trimester (and then some) but it’s true. My body is fatigued, in pain, and I’ve been dealing with all sorts of annoying health things that the doctors can only explain as “one of those weird things that is just part of pregnancy”. That’s what you want to hear after waiting in urgent care for hours because they were worried it was pre-term labor,  right? Anyway, I have 10 days left until due date but as I’ve learned, this baby will come in his own time. Sully came a week early and Elouise came a week late, so who knows what this kiddo is going to do. Maybe he’ll actually come on his due date? We shall see! In the meantime I rounded up the things I’ve been gravitating toward this trimester.

Read More

Thank You For Sharing

2nd Trimester Must Haves

Leave a comment

Now that my second trimester has officially ended I thought it’d be fun to share my must haves with you all. I get tons of pregnancy related questions on Instagram because, lets face it, we all just want a little help to survive while we are busy growing a human. It’s not an easy task! This trimester was supposed to be the one where all of my energy came back and I felt amazing. You read all the promises about the second trimester being “smooth sailing” but that was not the case for me. Maybe it’s because it’s my 3rd time growing a baby in just 4 short years. I guess I was asking for it haha. Well I actually have just a handful of things to share because after the third time around I’ve realized the things that I actually need and the ones that are just added fluff.

Read More

Thank You For Sharing

1st Trimester Survival Guide

2 Comments

Let me just say that there could not be a more appropriate word to use than “survival” because that was the goal for the first trimester. I’m two days into the second trimester and I’ll say that so far I haven’t had a magical transformation into a beautiful pregnancy unicorn, but maybe it’s coming? A girl can hope. I did find some products that really helped me survive the first 13 weeks of this pregnancy. This whole feeling awful thing was so new to me that I didn’t have any tried and true things to fall back on. However, after trial and error, these were the products that I found to be most helpful along this journey so far. Hopefully, they can help some of you mamas who are also struggling to make it through the day in the 1st trimester.

Read More

Thank You For Sharing

Baby Cannon #3

1 Comment

We are seriously so thrilled to have another little one on the way. It’s been so hard keeping the secret this time around because it has quite simply knocked me on my feet. I’m sharing few more fun variations of our announcement photos here because there were a few really good ones! We knew we wanted to do something simple for the announcement (because there really are no new ideas under the sun) but wanted to put our own new unique twist on it. When we came up with the “trilogy” idea for our custom t-shirts it was the obvious winner. Well, I’ve gotten LOTS of DMs and questions about some of the details of the pregnancy so I’m sharing the answers here. I will share my favorite first trimester items this weekend since I only have a couple more days left until I’m sailing into the second trimester.

Read More

Thank You For Sharing