The Mommy-Go-Round

The little flicker on the screen was strong and fast. Everything else looked like a foreign object — grainy and unclear. But the flicker was bright as day. “Very healthy heartbeat. Congrats! There’s your baby.”

We’ve all been in that place. The first time you see your baby on the ultrasound screen. For us, (my husband Jason and me), it was in January 2013, and our life instantly changed. Now we are expecting our first baby in September (Friday, the 13^th, to be exact J) and this blog will chronicle the incredible journey we are on and hopefully mirror some of the same steps, shifts and segues you are feeling in your own pregnancy journey.

Congratulations on your new baby!  It’s been seven years today that I brought home my last baby to introduce to my dog.  I have to say, by the time we got around to the third baby’s introduction, our dog was a pro with kids.

It was certainly a different situation than when we brought home our first baby.  Mostly because I wasn’t a nervous, first time mom, but also because we had learned a few things along the way.

Here are some tips to ease the introduction of your new baby to your “old baby.”

My name is Aly, I am a 30-year-old, stay-at-home mommy to almost 3-year-old triplet boys, Breck, Finn and Reid. To say our life is crazy would be a huge understatement. From the day these three little guys entered our life, we have been on this incredible adventure where they are teaching us every single day what life and love are all about. And I can’t imagine our life without them … crazy or not!

My husband Barett and I tried for three years to have a successful pregnancy, and after three miscarriages, some very expensive fertility doctor’s appointments and an endometriosis diagnosis, we were finally blessed with THREE babies. It was very scary and overwhelming those first couple of weeks after we found out we were having triplets, but being the eternal optimist that I am I knew that everything would be fine. It would be what God had planned for us all along.

Summer is just around the corner. So, it’s time to stock up on sunscreen for those pool parties and beach trips.

To help prevent sunburn (and to some degree, skin cancer), find a sunscreen with an SPF (sun protection factor) of at least 15 – the higher the number, the better. Look for one that screens out both UVA and UVB rays. Also, pick one that has a 3 or 4 rating in the new UVA star rating system.

“Do small things with great Love” – Mother Theresa

I’m Brandie! Hi! I’m a 27-year-old wife and mommy of four.

AHHHHH!

That’s right, four kids, I said it and you read it! Ella, Amelia, Evan and Callie make up my world. It is a very wonderful, loving, exhausting and obnoxious world, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.