Throw back to the delivery pregame 🤩
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After weeks of #prodromallabor my doctor and I decided it was time to pick an end date and induce labor to relieve me of the physical and emotional pain and anxiety that came with each false labor. When it came to induction and birth, I knew I was going to be in pain, I knew that a body was going to hopefully be birthed from mine, and I didn’t know how it would happen but that it would. The best thing I did was plan nothing! So as we waited for #UBER to take me to the hospital my mom and I danced and celebrated. I look back, and I want that energy again now. Last night as I tried to console my screaming baby I did what I know how to do best, I danced with my baby. I danced with her in my arms, as she cried and I reminded myself of the warriors we are. Finally she fell asleep with me, and we slept until morning. We got through her birth together as mother and daughter, as my mother and I got through it too. What I’ve learned is that a mother and her daughter can get through anything, and I can’t wait to get through everything right next to her @joieryder
There is no better gift than the gift of life 💗 .
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As I sit and reflect on the last 30 years of life that I’ve had the privilege of living, I feel an immense amount of gratitude. I have truly been blessed with the most wonderful family, education, health, life experiences, career, friends, partner and now daughter. I’ve also been supported by every one of you, which has truly been so inspiring and encouraging throughout my journey
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The last year of my life was quite the battle. I began my injections shortly after my birthday last year, and found out I was pregnant on March 21. Today, I sat and breastfed my daughter on and off for 2 hours because she had a bad belly ache and the only thing that calmed her was my beating heart 💕 I could have gone out for dinner, but instead I wanted to be with her and my husband and just surrounded by her life, her breath and the beating of her little heart- which I created with mine. Her life has given a new meaning to mine- a new found appreciation for what life is, how it is created and the hard work it takes to maintain it 💕 .
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So, with that, Happy 30th Birthday to me, it was one of the best birthdays of my life and for that and so much more I am thankful 🙌🏽 #wegotthis
5 days later 🖤
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We don’t talk about #postpartum enough or the way our bodies change from #pregnancy 😊 there is so much to discuss - and instagram only allows so much to be written! Breast feeding has been helping my uterus contract back to a smaller size and I’m beginning to feel like myself again 🙌🏽 and breast feeding is REALLY hard — I’ll post about that soon. .
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While I enjoyed having my adorable belly, I can’t lie and say that there isn’t an immense amount of relief I feel to no longer be pregnant. I do miss the feeling of kicks, and sensations, but I am so in love now, I wouldn’t trade it for the world. Its also weird to see how people can’t tell if I’m still pregnant because I still have a little belly! It’s so strange - but truthfully, pregnancy is strange - but a beautiful kind of weirdness 💞 because the human body is the most incredible vessel for growth, beauty and change. I am forever amazed that this body of mine was able to grow and maintain a baby, and birth one into the world. .
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Happy Anniversary Daddy💗 .
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2 years ago today I said I D💍 to my best friend. In the past two years, Ryan went from being my best friend and fiancé to husband, life partner and now father to our child. I cannot begin to express the gratitude I feel for my partner, but what I want to say is that this type of love and relationship takes a lot of WORK! .
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People so often post about their happy times but they don’t share the tough times - despite the fact that everyone has them. In the last two years Ryan and I committed ourselves not just to our marriage but to growing together. We learned to take care of ourselves as individuals, and in that, we’ve learned to take care of each other. Relationships are lots of work, and the work doesn’t stop being work when you fall “in love” - in fact, that’s when it becomes even MORE work. For those of you in relationships, keep working. The day you stop working at yourself and your love, is the day it will begin to stop working. For those of you single and looking for love, don’t be fooled or let down by the “happy couples” you see on social media. That CAN be you, and WILL be if you want it to be. Focus on loving yourself; taking care of you and when you love yourself most, someone else will be able to see that self value and appreciate it in you too. THAT is where you will find the love you’re looking for. Instead of looking for someone to complete you, complete yourself first and find someone who compliments all of who you are. .
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@chefrylo88 I made it through the birth of our daughter with a smile on my face, despite the pain because you never stopped reminding me of the warrior that I am, the mother in me, and the love between us. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for who you are, for the way you see me, and for the way you support me for all that I am and all that is in my soul. To many more years as your best friend, and to a lifetime of being parents to the best anniversary gift we could have ever given to each other @joieryder 💞
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