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    Class Starts This Weekend!

    Class starts on Sunday, and we would love for you to join us! You can register here
     
    Here are some thoughts from past participants:
    • “I want to recommend the heck out of this!”
    • “I feel like I have a really solid reference point; all the journaling these activities inspired created a larger awareness for me of what we’re getting ourselves into. We both feel a lot more informed not only about some specifics of preparing for pregnancy, but also that we have a broader groundwork with which to do more research and a better understanding of what we think and feel about taking this step. I feel more
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    Postpartum Update: Day 4

    I’m writing this update on day four of our expanded family. So far, so good! The “cocoon stage” isn’t my favorite, but I need to remind myself to savor each stage as much as I can. It’s such a special, quiet time as a family, and it will pass all too quickly as the boys grow.

     
    My healing is coming along well, but it’s still difficult to experience the discrepancy between what my mind wants to be doing and what my body is actually capable of doing. I need to find more ways to enjoy this down time. Right now I primarily occupy myself with Facebook, which is definitely not
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    DIY Kid Pants

    Thank you for all the support and love! I look forward to writing an update soon. For now, here’s a post I wrote before Tate’s arrival…
    Now that summer is in full swing in Austin, so are the mosquitoes. Henry must have the sweetest kind of blood or else he spends an inordinate amount of time outside or maybe his mom is adverse to using the kind of bug spray that actually works (no DEET for us) or perhaps he scratches bug bites and scabs more than the average kid.
     
    Or all of the above!
     
    I’ve tried keeping his nails really short, applying non-DEET bug spray religiously, using
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