Shanspirations

Here is some of the information I plan to turn to if I find myself in the situation of being very ill during pregnancy again! I don’t know if these ideas will work, but I felt I needed to learn all I could after how difficult my pregnancy with Anna was and it seems like [...]

Back in March I wrote my “pre-birth” story. Now I want to write about the events of Anna’s birth that I didn’t already share there.
Like so many women, I felt desparate for my baby to come that last week. I knew to expect this feeling, but it was amazing, after patiently going through [...]

As a certain time of the month comes up for me, I turn my attention towards dealing with PMS…for me, coping involves tea!
While I was heating water in the tea kettle and spooning my loose tea blend into a tea ball this morning, I was thinking, “Oh, what a relief it will be to drink [...]

It was 6am this past Sunday morning, and I had been up at 5am, showered and dressed, and was now walking a couple miles with my husband and baby daughter (she only walks for a little bit, then she gets to ride the backpack on her daddy:) We were having fun, just enjoying the time, [...]

I have been wondering about naps. Every now and then I come across information about napping that suggests to me that perhaps, it is possible to get less sleep at night as long as a nap during the day is possible. Usually the articles say that the ideal nap is 15-30 minutes long, [...]

40 days ago, or so, when I had first embarked (for several days) on the candlelight phase of my sleep adventure, I was searching the internet for information on candlelight and it’s effects on sleep. Why, oh, why, couldn’t I find something to take me further? I figured that if I had thought [...]

I’ve intended to share the following post for a while, but was busy researching and posting on sleep matters. Truth is, I could hardly wait to put this up. Dawn has graciously said “you are ever so welcome to anything that I ever say that a)makes sense or b)ministers to anything larger than [...]

When I first read about Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome several months ago, I was kind of excited, something along the lines of “Hey, there’s a name for this?” It seemed to describe me so well and I suppose it was comforting to find confirmed what I’d suspected all along — that it wasn’t just [...]