Fertility, Pregnancy, and Baby Prep

I am done having babies and I just started seeing a midwife. Sounds a bit odd, right? Midwives deliver babies! That’s what they do. Wrong. That is far from all they do. I just realized that my perception of what a midwife actually does was WAY off. In fact, I wish I’d have known more …

William Reyes was born on Sunday December 9th, 2018 at 1:32 pm. He came out with gusto, and has quite the impressive birth story! As many of you know, I have had an official diagnosis of cholestasis since 30 weeks due to elevated bile acid levels. I also had cholestasis with my first pregnancy. This …

Well it’s all getting real now. We are 4 weeks out from my induction date on December 28th (37 weeks).  I suddenly realized, that I’ve been so focused on just getting through this pregnancy with a healthy baby, that I have yet to really think about baby time. I had two appointments this week. One …

Everything you need for baby, brand new for under $1000. There are so many products out there today that are marketed to first time moms. It’s almost overwhelming to look through everything and decide what you need for when baby arrives. I started thinking about what items we could have used without, versus what we …

  This post was originally published over at Team Cartwright in May of 2018. Fertility struggles are very real today. Women are attempting to get pregnant much later in life. Our grandparents were often pregnant in their late teens, our parents in their twenties, and us… more and more we’re trying in our thirties. It’s …

Mama: Katrina Villegas Baby:  Caroline This is my story. I had possible cholestasis and ended up with a planned induction. Our pregnancy was as planned as it gets. We had tried for 1.5 years to get pregnant. Along the way I had an HSG, an exploratory laparoscopy, 2 months of clomid cycles, and then 2 …