A little more about me :)

So I know I started out with the heavy stuff yesterday and figured I would give you a little more about me and my history.

Like I said yesterday I am 29 years old with 2 boys and a great husband.

Timmothy was born on June 3, 2003.  He was 7lbs even and was delivered vaginally.  When people ask if I had a natural child birth, I say I had a natural child birth on drugs as my epidural did not work.  They tried and tried, but it didn't work.  I was induced with Timmothy at 42 weeks.  The induction was horrible.  I went in the night before and after over 18 hours of labor he was born.  When he was born he inhaled Meconium and was not breathing on his own.  They got him to start breathing, gave him to me for a couple of minutes then off to the NICU he went.  It was 4 hours later when I was finally able to see him.  After that I refused to let him out of my sight.  Once we got home from the hospital, I tried to breast feed.  I had a horrible support system for it and no one in the hospital even attempted to help me, so with in a week at my pedi's urging, I quit.  I was 20 years old and didn't know any better than to listen to what the pedi said.  Timmothy followed the CDC's recommended vaccination schedule up until he was 5 years old when he suffered a bad reaction to them.  He was rushed to the ER one night following his 5 year vaccines for having unexplained seizures, a high (like almost 105) fever, and was lethargic and non-responsive.  We spent just over 36 hours in the hospital with him while they ran all sorts of tests.  All of the tests came back inconclusive.  Turns out it was all a reaction to the vaccines he had gotten about 48 hours prior to the whole thing.  Since we have stopped vaccinating he has been healthier than every!!  When he was a baby he constantly had ear infections, sinus infections, severe asthma, and was even diagnosed with sleep apnea.  By the time he was 3 years old he had had two surgeries, one to remove his adniods (the supposed cause of the apnea) and one to put tubes in his ears to help stop the infections.  He was constantly sick as a young child as well, with URI's and the ear infections continued.  I couldn't even tell you how many days of school he missed.  This school year, he has missed one so far!!!  I co-slept/bed-shared with him until he was 4.  I never had any issues or problems with doing so.  He is my Big boy now!!!

Riley was born on August 6, 2010.  He weighed in at 7lbs 4 oz.  He was my C-Section baby.  I was diagnosed with Crohns after Timmothy was born and it is medically necessary for me to have C-sections from now on :(.  He breast fed until he was 3 months old when my supply tanked after I started to work again.  Riley is Vaccine free (except for the first HepB shot at the hospital).  Health wise, he only suffers from allergies.  He is my cloth diaper baby as well.  For the first 6 months we used disposables and could never clear up his diaper rash for good.  Some of my friends in a mother group I joined used cloth and recommended I try them.  With in the first 2 days of using cloth the rash was gone!!!  He is also extended rear facing in his car seat.  I still co-sleep/bed-share with him and probably will until I either have another baby or he decides he doesn't want to anymore.

I met Tim when I was 16 years old.  I never thought at that time that we would ever be together but boy was I wrong.  We lost touch for a couple of years and saw each other again when I was 18.  We hit it off right away and have been together pretty much ever since.  Our relationship has been rocky at points, but we always seem to work through it.  I love him with all my heart and can't imagine being with anyone else.






So that is more about me and my family.  I am sure that I will blog more about cloth diapers and extended rear facing as time goes on.  I am a huge natural parenting, breast feeding, non-vaxing, cloth diapering, extended rear facing, and non-circumcising advocate.