bridgetmartin

Love, Life, and Priorities

As many of you have no doubt seen, @hippie-witha-gun announced that we have separated. I do not want to divulge too many details, but suffice it to say that I f...

Bonus from Mama Pepper

Theo recently ordered a rainbow hairband from one of @papa-pepper 's kids. In the package, @mama-pepper included a surprise bonus for me. https://youtu.be/u1npJ...

Baby Daze 12/8/18

I've been having a hard time dealing with being back at work and leaving Maverick at home. I'm not really worried about him (I mean, I am...what mother wouldn't...

Baby Daze 11/18/18

Baby Man has started smiling and laughing. It makes all the fussy times worth it, and I'm not getting so overwhelmed now. He has grown so much already. I'm torn...

Baby Daze 11/6/18

Maternity leave is officially over. I went back to work yesterday. Maverick was not too happy about that and made sure to let me know when I got home. Lol My fi...

Baby Daze 11/1/18

We made some progress today! I have this baby wearing wrap so I can carry Maverick around and have my hands free. Well, he never really took to it and cried alm...

Baby Daze 10/31/18

Happy Halloween! Today was a shitty day, quite literally. Maverick had not pooped in over 3 days and had become extremely fussy. He seemed to be in pain. Then h...

Baby Daze 10/29/18

As I'm writing this, Maverick is sleeping soundly in his great-grandma's arm for the first time today. We had a busy day. Maverick slept very well last night, b...

Baby Daze 10/28/18

It has been a few days, so here is Super Baby to make up for it!...

Baby Daze 10/24/18

Baby Man had another restless day and did a lot of spitting up - so much that we nearly ran out of burp cloths again. So we took him to the laundromat to wash a...

Baby Daze 10/23/18

Good morning, Steemit! Sorry we missed you yesterday! It was a rough day. Baby Man spent most of the day crying and wouldn't really nap, even when we took him i...

Baby Daze 10/21/18

Today was a quiet, lazy day. We watched The Secret Life of Pets this morning while Maverick slept in my arms. We made some progress on sitting calmly in his swi...

Baby Daze 10/20/18

I realized I have not been posting much since Maverick was born. I have decided to try making at least one post every day with a picture of our baby boy, starti...

Welcome Maverick Thomas Martin!

On September 25 at 5:30pm, we checked in to the hospital to start the induction process. I was 40 weeks and 3 days pregnant, and it was time for him to make his...

Labor Scare

Yesterday was interesting... I started to have signs of labor coming. I'll spare you the gory details. Lol I started freaking out thinking, this is it! Much soo...

Pregnancy Update: 35 weeks, 5 days

We had an appointment with the midwife today. At the last one, she said my belly was measuring a little big, so she scheduled an ultrasound, which we did today....

Call Center Creep

Got a telemarketing call earlier, one I've had many times before. This time I followed the prompts until I got a real person. I asked to be removed from the cal...

Prenatal Conflict - Update

The beginning of this fiasco: https://steemit.com/life/@bridgetmartin/prenatal-conflict The resolution: After researching and panicking all day, I called every ...

Prenatal Conflict

Yesterday, I had my 32 week prenatal appointment, during which I think I overwhelmed the doctor with my birth plan. He began with an "oh, no" and said that it i...

Family

This is something that has been weighing heavily on my heart during this pregnancy. I just need to get it out... As I am writing this, I can feel my son turning...