You’ve heard about them. You’ve been warned about them. You had no idea what to expect and now they are here.
Your sweet little angel, that tiny babe who once fit in the crook of your arm, is now a tyrannical monster-child whose vocabulary consists mostly of “mine” and “no” and is capable of having a complete and total meltdown at the drop of a hat.
These are the Terrible Twos.
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The time is near.
Giving birth is on the horizon, but there’s a snag – instead of the vaginal delivery you were expecting, your doctor tells you to have a c-section.
For some moms, this is a surprise, and for other’s it’s not. I was hoping to deliver my twins vaginally, but I developed Intrauterine Growth Restriction.
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As pregnant mothers, we all have good intentions of keeping track of everything but even during pregnancy life is still busy.
You know, pregnancy brain and all!
Between remembering when appointments are and what to buy in preparation for the baby, the mere thought of recording the actual experience of pregnancy doesn’t occur to us.
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Your body goes through many changes when you become pregnant to help nourish and protect your baby.
You gain weight, the amount of blood in your body increases, you form a placenta (which is another organ, how amazing!), and form a mucus plug.
But before we get into talking about losing your mucus plug, let’s look at what the actual purpose of the mucus plug is and what its role plays in your pregnancy.
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Your body has just gone through an amazing experience.
You grew a human and another organ (your placenta). It even provides all the nutrition your baby needs for the first few months of development by producing that sweet liquid gold.
Your hormones have changed many times over and nothing is in the same place as before you got pregnant. It’s funny how our bodies change throughout the pregnancies that we have.
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Elna is a mom to twins who blogs and writes for a living. She loves all things mom. While she’s not blogging, you can find Elna meal planning, organizing and helping other moms in her Facebook group, Ready Set Blog for Traffic (From Mom to Mompreneur). →