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Birth Story Part One: Welcoming The Unexpected
Welcome to my birth story. You’re in for a wild ride! Keep reading and subscribe to follow my birth story, NICU journey, and new mom life during a pandemic. It’s filled with indescribable emotions, frightening scenarios, and moments that were heartfelt. Ending as one of the most rewarding experiences of my life despite the pain that accompanies it. Years before I was ever thinking of getting pregnant, I always wondered what it would be like for me. Would I be brave enough to go unmedicated? Would I have a long and stubborn labor or a quick and easy one? What other kinds of things would be a part of my…
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Let’s get caught up; a year in review…
I’ll be honest, I wasn’t sure what I wanted my first actual blog post to be about, sure I have lots of topic ideas but I needed one to share first. My husband suggested a year in review. He said “No one will know what you’re talking about if you just jump into current things” and he had a point.A lot has happened in the past year that will be influencing many future blog posts of mine so here I am to get you up to speed so things will make sense. In January of 2020 my family lost someone who selflessly was a huge part of our family. He…
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Welcome to ‘Life in the Zoo Lane’!
Hello, and welcome to my blog! If you don’t already know me, my name is Tamara. Pronounced like a cheer, Tah-Mah-Rah although, if you’re only going to be reading my blog and we may never met in person that is probably an irrelevant fact. 🙂 Anyway, it’s nice to [virtually] meet you and thank you for coming by to see what I’ve got planned. Blogging has been on my mind for quite some time, a few years actually, and I’ve gone back and forth on why I should or shouldn’t commit to sharing my life online. It came down to this: the world is so big that maybe the person…