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To Be A Mom

Baby Angel, a.k.a. Addison Grace, is 3 months old today! I seriously can't believe it. Last night Levi looked at me and said, "Em, we have a baby. She is ours. I can't believe it." Me neither babe, me neither. It has been hard adjusting to this mom life. Mostly because of Addison's health problems. I haven't had the ability to just be a mom. I know that caring for your baby is being a mom and that taking her to every doctors appointment and hospital visit falls under that "caring". I am referring more to feeling free to sit at home and just be. Getting to know each other in a more natural way of nursing and being up at night. Not because I hold her after the nurse has stuck her with an IV.  I never thought that I would be caring for a baby who was born with a disease. But here I am. We think that child birth is so natural and that if you don't smoke, drink, do drugs, etc that your baby will be fine. That is not true. I have always known ...