This summer has been extremely busy for me. I also just returned to work in a building, with a full staff of people and young children. So, maybe you can imagine the anxiety I’m feeling, but if you can’t, it is quite an overwhelming feeling. So, this blog post is not going to be heavy at all. I didn’t want to evoke any feelings reminiscing about my baby’s early life, so I thought I would keep it light this month by talking about Casey’s favorite things he is using or playing with these days. 1. Battat Ambulance Casey stays quite busy loading up his patients on the stretcher and taking them to ..read more

After one week and one day of being in the NICU, it was finally time for little Mr. Casey to come home. Woohoo! Yes, Casey is the name we decided upon after pulling a name out of a hat that I still could not settle with. It just did not seem right. I can’t even remember the name. Even though the name “Case”, which was on our list, didn’t make the hat, Brian thought Casey might be a good name because, at the time, he was the commander of Camp Casey in Dongducheon, South Korea and also because of my affinity for Casey Affleck . We were allowed to arrive at the NICU a couple of hours before the s ..read more

If you read my previous blog post, then you know that I had my surprise son at 47 years old and delivered him in a hospital in Seoul, South Korea. If you haven’t, I need you to catch up (LOL). So, the pregnancy and the delivery went well, but not so much after that. In the United States, regardless of whether you have had a vaginal birth or C-section, you get to hold your baby if you are physically capable of doing so (or so I’m told). Well, it is very different in South Korea. When my son (he doesn’t have a name at this point) was born, the nurse held him close to my face so I could say my fi ..read more

“Congratulations, you are #pregnant!” Not exactly the words you expect to hear when you are 46. I just thought I would be hearing confirmation of what I had already suspected, symptoms of #PERIMENOPAUSE. Because the three positive home pregnancy tests were just not enough. I attributed the positive results to elevated #hCG levels related to perimenopause. Nope, it was a little #embryo growing inside of me. I really did not know how to feel. I was actually in a state of shock. The doctor asked if my pregnancy was planned and I responded “not really”. Although it was planned years before, I had ..read more

This summer has been extremely busy for me. I also just returned to work in a building, with a full staff of people and young children. So, maybe you can imagine the anxiety I’m feeling, but if you can’t, it is quite an overwhelming feeling. So, this blog post is not going to be heavy at all. I didn’t want to evoke any feelings reminiscing about my baby’s early life, so I thought I would keep it light this month by talking about Casey’s favorite things he is using or playing with these days. 1. Battat Ambulance Casey stays quite busy loading up his patients on the stretcher and taking them to ..read more

After one week and one day of being in the NICU, it was finally time for little Mr. Casey to come home. Woohoo! Yes, Casey is the name we decided upon after pulling a name out of a hat that I still could not settle with. It just did not seem right. I can’t even remember the name. Even though the name “Case”, which was on our list, didn’t make the hat, Brian thought Casey might be a good name because, at the time, he was the commander of Camp Casey in Dongducheon, South Korea and also because of my affinity for Casey Affleck . We were allowed to arrive at the NICU a couple of hours before the s ..read more

If you read my previous blog post, then you know that I had my surprise son at 47 years old and delivered him in a hospital in Seoul, South Korea. If you haven’t, I need you to catch up (LOL). So, the pregnancy and the delivery went well, but not so much after that. In the United States, regardless of whether you have had a vaginal birth or C-section, you get to hold your baby if you are physically capable of doing so (or so I’m told). Well, it is very different in South Korea. When my son (he doesn’t have a name at this point) was born, the nurse held him close to my face so I could say my fi ..read more

“Congratulations, you are #pregnant!” Not exactly the words you expect to hear when you are 46. I just thought I would be hearing confirmation of what I had already suspected, symptoms of #PERIMENOPAUSE. Because the three positive home pregnancy tests were just not enough. I attributed the positive results to elevated #hCG levels related to perimenopause. Nope, it was a little #embryo growing inside of me. I really did not know how to feel. I was actually in a state of shock. The doctor asked if my pregnancy was planned and I responded “not really”. Although it was planned years before, I had ..read more