Miles James Koch was born at 12:32pm on Sunday, October 25, 2015 after spending exactly 41 weeks getting ready for the outside world. I started having contractions at around midnight on Friday night/Saturday morning. If you're quick at math, you probably just realized that I was in labor for almost exactly 36 hours. Yep. I woke up around midnight on Friday night with what felt like an intense gas cramp. However, after about two hours of cramping, I started to think that my wildest dreams … [Read more...]

I finally entered my third trimester a couple of weeks ago, and I would say "Oh my gosh I can't believe I'm already in my third trimester!" except that if anything, I can't believe I am ONLY in my third trimester. These past few weeks have been craaaawwwling by, and I have a feeling the next 10 weeks won't exactly fly by, either. In fact, mid-October feels about 100 years away! Apparently (aka I am told this by most new moms I know), I will look back on pregnancy and miss these "special moments" … [Read more...]

We are getting ready to move next week (and if you just read that and thought, "Really? You're moving in a week? Shouldn't you be packing?" the answer is Yes. But shh.), and that means pretty soon I will get to actually start putting together a nursery for this little guy! Over the past few weeks, I have started to appreciate the importance and realness of a "nesting" instinct, which I previously thought was probably just a marketing ploy. But I can really see how getting a space ready for a new … [Read more...]