The Day I Became a Heart Mom

September 21, 2015. 1 year ago today. 2 days after our awesome gender reveal.  We were entering a new week having just found out awesome news. We were going to have our sweet baby boy. We both wanted a boy! The pinata opened, blue confetti fell, and we had our Nolan Robert! We didn’t think […]

The Necessary Norwood

  Nolan was born on January 13, 2016. On January 18, he had his first surgery of the three-stage procedure that will help his heart function a little better. No mother should have to watch her 5 day old wheeled off into surgery. Johnny and I woke up semi-early and got to the hospital by […]

32 weeks down, forever to go!

I was hoping the holiday season would make these last few weeks fly by but that’s just not the case. 😦 I feel like this last 7 weeks is going to drag by and mid-January is NEVER going to get here. I’m so anxious to meet this baby! During the Thanksgiving break I had a […]

Our Blue Baby

Our lives are about to get very busy! On the 21st of September we had an appointment with a maternal-fetal medicine specialist. The midwife wanted us to go get a second look at Nolan’s heart. I went in thinking the doctor was just going to tell us there was a calcification on his heart and […]