Category: Shiloh Ruth
Updated on September 7, 2018
Abundant life
“I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.” I thought I understood this verse. Then I watched my daughter go through a transformative heart surgery.
Updated on July 5, 2018
The July 4th Turn
Way back in August, I left you hanging with Shiloh’s birth story. It was not my intention, but life with three littles got the best of me. On that last account, I left you, Shiloh having just been… Read More
Updated on April 3, 2018
Holding the rope
We would chant it to each other at the end of a particularly hard or worrisome day. Heart surgery this spring, or early summer. Hand surgery early fall. By the holidays next year, coast clear. Breathe deep. Marathon… Read More
Updated on October 1, 2017
Contemplating Colostrum
It was our first morning as NICU parents. Shiloh had been born the night before, and had had an eventful night of tests and examinations and intervention. I had spent most of the night recovering on the maternity… Read More
Posted on September 5, 2017
Cleaning & Control
My house is cleaner than it usually is (please note, I said cleaner, not clean). I have a confession to make, when much of life – the big things in life, the things I can’t control – is… Read More
Updated on August 20, 2017
Shiloh’s Birth – Part Three
Just tuning in? You might want to read part one and part two of Shiloh’s birth first. Soon after my water was broken, we bid farewell to our nurse Anna as she came to the end of her… Read More
Posted on August 19, 2017
Shiloh’s Birth – Part Two
With cervidil started, and contractions settling into a regular pattern, I grabbed my walking pole with IV’s and monitors and started my pacing of the maternity ward loop. For the first couple times around the block, Jeff joined… Read More
Updated on August 16, 2017
Shiloh’s birth – Part One
We had been there before. It was all very familiar – laced with a bit of deja vu – and yet so different this time. As we approached Arabella’s birth it felt like there was a groundswell of… Read More
Posted on July 21, 2017
Car seats, surgery & provision
I just got off the phone with Seattle Children’s. Arabella’s open heart surgery is officially scheduled for October 5th. We’ve known it’s coming for a long time. We knew even before she was born, that if somehow she… Read More
Updated on June 30, 2017
Shiloh Eve
Birthday cake has been brushed off of teeth. Stories have been read. Two sisters have been tucked into bed. And now Jeff and I sit in the lobby of Ronald McDonald, watching Bella prance around her pack ‘n… Read More
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