PREGNANCY Archives | WANDERING MALIA

Birth Story | Baby M

December 8, 2017 · LIFE, PREGNANCY · 8 Comments

I can’t believe I’m finally writing out her birth story, it’s been such a surreal thing to wrap my mind around. Our baby is finally here and we’re just over the moon with her.

She’ll make a month in just one week and I just wasn’t prepared for how quickly time would fly with our little

Laboring was nothing like I imagined, which fit perfectly into our “go with flow” birth plan (aka our birth plan was to have a safe delivery, healthy mama and baby).

Baby M was born on Tuesday, November 14th at 12:23 AM. Weighing in at 6 lbs 6 oz. [Read more…]

random thoughts | being pregnant in europe

October 20, 2017 · LIFE, PREGNANCY, RANDOM THOUGHTS · 12 Comments

Yesterday, we just reached 36 weeks in this pregnancy and it’s constantly crossing my mind how close we are til her due date. Time has seriously flown by and we’re rather eager to have our little girl in our lives. If you’ve been following along my journey, you know how interested and fascinated I’ve been with my prenatal care while in Europe. For the most part, it’s definitely different than what I would receive in the U.S. And as we get closer, things keep popping up in my head to talk about on the blog, so that’s where we are today. [Read more…]

Pregnancy | I Almost Didn’t Do a Maternity Shoot

October 9, 2017 · PREGNANCY · 17 Comments

I like how I said I wasn’t going to blog much about my pregnancy, but the past few posts have just been about that. But I’m sure you’ll like this one, since a couple of weeks ago I had a good friend visiting and she just happened to be a photographer 😉 You’ve definitely seen her work before since she did our first homecoming and trash the dress shoot, while we were in Hawai’i. [Read more…]

pregnancy | our story.

September 4, 2017 · PREGNANCY · 9 Comments

I know I said that I didn’t necessarily plan on talking so much about pregnancy, but I wanted to write something out so I’d always have it in my memory box on my blog. We definitely don’t have some crazy story, but we’ve always known that when the time came to start a family, we wanted it to happen during his shore duty. Shore duty, I’ve always referred to it as the downtime from going out to sea and having a more set work schedule, but that’s not really the case nowadays. We got extremely lucky with A‘s shore duty since we’re overseas for two years while he goes back to school. [Read more…]

pregnancy | do what’s best for you and baby.

August 24, 2017 · PREGNANCY · 6 Comments

Being pregnant is one thing, but having a baby overseas is another element to add on to the madness. Long before we moved to our new home in Slovenia, we knew that starting a family was always on the horizon. We had a plan; as soon as A was on his shore duty for the US Navy, that’s when we’d hope to start a family. And just a few months before moving, we were pregnant! From the beginning, we’ve always intended on having her in-country, but once we arrived and talked with the embassy, things quickly shifted when they said they don’t approve of delivering your child in-country. Tricare and the embassy wanted me to deliver at the closest military base, which was Aviano and a lovely 2.5-hour drive away. Not exactly ideal, but we stuck with it … for the time being. [Read more…]

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