This weeks visiting Postpartum Depression Survivor is Lauren from my Postpartum Voice: Speaking Up; Reaching Out; Inspiring Hope. Lauren is an amazing online friend who can be found for support at just the right time. A few months ago I was having a really hard time with PPD, I call it a PPD attack...Keep Reading Here »
This weeks visiting Postpartum Depression Survivor is Grace from Arms Wide Open. I love how honest and Wide Open Grace is. I have only recently gotten to know Grace on Twitter and read about her story, but it is one that I think about often. She suffered with the weight of the world on...Keep Reading Here »
I was recently talking to another Postpartum Depression survivor about doing a guest post here, she apologized for taking a while to respond to me about sharing her story. I told her no worries, that from my experience with both Congenital Heart Defect and Postpartum Depression Moms, that we are all a bunch of...Keep Reading Here »
Sharing Your Voice is a new weekly feature at The Nut House that allows for you, my friends, to give Postpartum Depression a Voice. Just like Congenital Heart Defects has found a place in my life, so has Postpartum Depression. And so I am giving PPD a home here on my website. Postpartum Depression...Keep Reading Here »
OK, so we all know that I moved to WordPress a last month, it took me months to figure out and then when I thought I figured it out, I lost it all. I guess I a few other things got lost too. Specifically, my Postpartum Depression, my posts that is. Last week another...Keep Reading Here »
Postpartum depression is an interesting thing. I have up days and down days. And I have ups and downs and ups and downs mixed into one day. Sometimes I can’t tell if I am down because of PPD or because of the stress of Wee Nut’s Heart Defect. I have come to believe that ...Keep Reading Here »
I am happy, and very Thankful to say that The Nut House has had a very quiet and uneventful week. It looks like we are finally getting back into our routine after our Christmas holiday. I am Thankful that my children don’t seem to mind the garbage bags of junk that have been leaving...Keep Reading Here »
I didn’t realize until last night when I was think about his surgery last year, that the anniversary of his second surgery was another contributing factor in my feeling down. I think it affected me differently because it was something we had spend months planning. It was so much different than when Owee was...Keep Reading Here »
When I think of Postpartum Depression, I always think of moms who can’t bring themselves to care for their children, who are just not happy after the birth of their baby. I never thought of it as general confusion or crankiness. And I never thought after 4 kids that I would have it with...Keep Reading Here »
Honey Nut is the Latest and Last Addition to the Family. She is our 5th Little Nut and our 1st and only Little Girl. She spends her days pretty much running after her brothers and pretending she can talk. She has no trouble being heard around here and loves her big brothers as much as they love her. Right now it is pretty much her job to just hang out and be cute.
Owain is my 3 year old, my Little Heart Kid & my Hero. He is Double Inlet, Single Ventricle with Pulmonary Atresia and Malpositioned Great Arteries. He has had 3 out of 3 Open Heart surgeries needed to “fix” his heart. The Heart is an amazing thing and I never know what to expect. He also has asthma and we are doing our best to manage that. He finally had his last surgery on June 24th 2011.
Wee Nut and Honey Nut have become a pair of serious partners in crime. The two of them together can cause more trouble than the older three. They keep me on my toes!
Owain is our Miracle Baby. You can read his Congenital Heart Defect Story from the very beginning if you click on his picture.
E Nut is 8 and wicked crazy! He is my fearless child and spent much of his life thinking if he could just jump high enough he could fly. If I let him, he would play Wii all day long, that is IF I let him. He has no trouble waking up before 6am and made me a morning person when I never thought I would be. He recently lost his first tooth and FINALLY feels like a Big Kid. E Nut and Wing Nut are the Big Kids around here and while they fight like enemies, they love like brothers.
After his Fontan on June 24th he went home after 6 days! Now we are back in the hospital waiting for fluid to stop draining from around his right lung.
Little Nut Nut is my 5 year old boy genius and totally freaks me out with the things he can do. What type of child learns to read at 3 years old?!? He is his Big Brothers shadow and wants to do what ever they do. He doesn't have any trouble letting everyone around here know what he thinks, has no inner voice and talks non-stop all day long. If he thinks it, he says it. He says things like "I love life" and "I am made of Awesome" and always makes me smile, even when I don't want to.
My Wing Nut, 10 years old, is my first born and is a Lego Fanatic. He talks in his sleep about "interesting number combinations" and insists that he is going to work for Lego when he grows up. From the moment he gets the current issue of Lego magazine in the mail, he anticipates the arrival of the next one. He has crazy mood swings, has recently been diagnosed with ADHD but I am not so sure that is correct. He is considered Failure to Thrive and I struggle everyday to get him to gain weight, he keeps getting taller, but not gaining any weight. I think if we can figure out why he his Failure to Thrive, his ADHD will go away.
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