While that time was magical and traumatic for me all at once, I’m so glad that I recorded it so I wouldn’t forget. Along with those progress reports, I continued to write letters to my son, all the way up to his birth.Ī few days after he was born, I recorded in detail, the events of his birth and the stressful ordeal of having to admit him to the children’s hospital only a day after he was released (he had pretty severe jaundice and wasn’t nursing so he had to spend 24 hours under the photo-therapy lights hooked up to an IV while he slowly learned how to nurse). My words transformed into a letter where I stared sharing some of my hopes and dreams for him.Īs the pregnancy progressed, I continued to write progress reports of how I was feeling and how big he was getting, including milestones of when my belly first started to really show and the day we found out he was a boy. I wrote about how excited his daddy and I were to welcome him into our family. I told him how I stared to cry when I heard the pitter-patter of his little heart for the first time.
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That day in my little green journal I wrote a letter to “Baby O” (it would be several more weeks before we found out Baby O was a boy, and the O is the initial of our last name). The words that I wrote down from that doctor’s appointment changed from information of how many weeks I was and what the doctor recommended, to how I was feeling and the reality of being pregnant with my first child. I went from not fully understanding why I was so nauseous and tired all the time, to actually embracing the miracle of life that was growing inside of me. Then something magical happened after I heard his little heart beat for the first time. I recorded the date when I found out I was pregnant, information from my first doctor’s appointment, and how and when we shared the news with our family. The first entries were pretty much just recording basic information so I wouldn’t forget them later. I went out and bought a small lime green notebook. What I’m talking about is an actual journal where I record specific stories, events, funny things they said or did, and it’s also where I write each of my children letters periodically.īack when I was pregnant with Silas, I started to keep a log of my pregnancy.
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I think those are pretty special too, and to remember those things I write them down in my kid’s baby books.
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