I am now the mother of a teenager!   I am so proud to be her mother.  She has so many wonderful qualities. She is : *a daughter of Christ, growing in his knowledge each day *an energetic, fun -loving spunky young lady * a beautiful daughter inside and out * a talented musician in both the piano...

  Paxton is 8 months old. He is amazing and sweet and cuddly. He is crawling and pulling up to stand. He has four teeth, but will barely touch solid foods.  He loves to nurse, play peek-a-boo and take a bath. He babbles but hasn’t said his first word yet. He will either act very serious...

Just the words “postpartum body” conjure up all sort of distorted images of our bodies in our heads. Jiggly, lumpy, bumpy bits and pieces of previously sleek and smooth parts. Us women tend to forget what our bodies just went through and as soon as that baby is born we are trying to figure...

A short 10 weeks ago, I had 5 children and a “bump”. We loved our bump. Our bump didn’t have any kind of name because we didn’t know if we were having a boy or a girl. My 6 year old son Payton would put his hands on my bump and rub it any time he stood in front of me. It was so...

Today marks the 24th week of my pregnancy. That means we only have 16 weeks until our due date! Which means we probably have only about 14 weeks until we actually have our 6th baby! We have only made it past 38 weeks with our first child..she was actually overdue and born at 41 weeks. The last 4 have...

I have been seriously neglecting my blog. And now I don’t even know where to start. Big things have been happening in the Baker home. Most notably our decision to consider having a home birth for our 6th child. I have been searching the internet, asking friends, nurses, pretty much everyone if...

I am officially 14 weeks pregnant today. For those of you who don’t know, this will be our 6th child. I have been wanting to post weekly updates but I have also been a little nervous about it. I didn’t want to feel like I was jinxing myself or something. I think infertility and loss tend...