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My Body, My Children’s First Home

May 3, 2019 By Haley 8 Comments

As my fourth baby has learned to crawl over the past few weeks, I watch her launch out across the living room to grab toys and explore. After scurrying several feet away, she will turn her head back to where I sit cross-legged on the floor and return to me, climbing into my lap to rest her head on my chest or pat my cheek with her chubby palm before going on her next tiny adventure across the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Children, Faith & Liturgical Living, Family & Homesteading, Motherhood, Our Lady Tagged With: blessed virgin mary, children, Motherhood, our lady, pregnancy

Hildie’s Birth Story: Part II, The Wild Ride

August 7, 2018 By Haley 72 Comments

This is Part II. You definitely want to start with Part I to hear about how I was sent home from the hospital and told I was "not in labor." Back at home I laid on the couch with one leg over a couch pillow while Daniel dozed on a yoga mat on the floor next to me, holding my hand through contractions. The contractions were becoming unbearable and I started to feel overheated during them and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Baby, Birth, Family & Homesteading, Pregnancy Tagged With: Birth, Birth Story, hildegard rose, Labor, pregnancy

Hildie’s Birth Story: Part I, “You’re Not in Labor”

August 6, 2018 By Haley 21 Comments

To arrive at our sweet girl’s absolutely wild birth story, the stage must be set. It was a rough pregnancy. 25 weeks of debilitating nausea due to HG followed by a third trimester of lightheadedness and the other perks that come with anemia. Then my midwife mentioned, “Hmmmm, looks like she’s breech. But don’t freak out because she has plenty of time to turn.” I did start to freak out and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Baby, Birth, Family & Homesteading, Pregnancy Tagged With: Birth, Birth Story, breech, external cephalic version, hildegard rose, hildie, Labor, pregnancy, prodromal labor, transverse

A Hospital Bag Checklist for the Catholic Mom

July 16, 2018 By Haley 20 Comments

Catholic Hospital Bag

I am 38 weeks tomorrow. My baby girl continues to stubbornly stay breech and transverse in there so this week is chock full of chiropractor visits, more handstands at the pool, acupuncture, moxibustion, and if all that fails (as it has been) an external version at the hospital on Friday. I am feeling very not in control of much right now. But I can pack my hospital bag (and I plan to take it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Baby, Birth, Family & Homesteading, Pregnancy Tagged With: Birth, catholic hospital bag, delivery, pregnancy

Mystery and Motherhood: Is This Not Where Love Dwells?

July 3, 2018 By Haley 16 Comments

Mystery and Motherhood: Is This Not Where Love Dwells?

The thought has crossed my mind lately that while I love the idea of pregnancy, the practical aspects feel nightmarish right now. At 36 weeks pregnant with my fourth baby, all the pregnancy discomforts are here in full force: the aches, extreme fatigue, pressure, acid reflux, feeling that I can’t take a real breath because baby is pushing up against my lungs, lightheadedness in the July Texas … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Catholicism, Faith & Liturgical Living, Family & Homesteading, Motherhood, Pregnancy Tagged With: Catholicism, faith, flannery o'connor, God, hyperemesis gravidarum, Motherhood, mystery and manners, pregnancy

“So Are You Done Having Kids?”

April 15, 2018 By Haley 41 Comments

So are you done having kids?

“So are you done having kids? Is this your last pregnancy?” I’ve been asked this after each one of my pregnancies. And until this one (my 4th), I have always responded with a resounding “no!” (with the caveat that none of us are entitled to a baby and we can’t always predict secondary infertility). But keep the babies coming! No plans to stop! Enough for a quidditch team! But this time my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Baby, Birth, Catholicism, Faith & Liturgical Living, Family & Homesteading, Motherhood, NFP, Pregnancy Tagged With: babies, HG pregnancy, nfp, pregnancy

This Is My Body, Broken for You

April 12, 2018 By Haley 9 Comments

I was staring up at the crucifix during Mass. I was too sick to kneel, so I was just sitting in the pew while everyone knelt around me. I was desperately trying not to throw up, the pregnancy nausea coming in waves, impossible to ignore. It was my first Mass in a month. I had been too sick with hyperemesis gravidarum to leave the house for weeks. The previous week I had tried to get out of bed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Baby, Catholicism, Children, Motherhood, Pregnancy Tagged With: Catholicism, faith, HG pregnancy, Motherhood, pregnancy

8 Ways to Help a Mom Struggling with Severe Morning Sickness

June 2, 2015 By Haley 30 Comments

8 Ways to Help a Mom Struggling with Severe Morning Sickness

Give a warm welcome to Rachel of Efficient Mama who's sharing about supporting women with severe morning sickness or hyperemisis gravidarum. Since I've had HG for two out of three pregnancies, I say YES to all of Rachel's advice! - Haley I've gone through two pregnancies now that had pretty severe morning sickness, the first being the worst. When I tell you it was severe, I'm talking puking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family & Homesteading, Pregnancy Tagged With: HG, morning sickness, pregnancy

Morning Sickness and Peeing Your Pants (Guest Post by Lindsey Morrow)

October 1, 2014 By Haley 18 Comments

If you've been hanging  around Carrots very long, you know that my biggest struggle with pregnancy is morning sickness. Not just uncomfortable, annoying morning sickness...like can't-keep-water-down and need-serious-prescriptions-to-handle-the-situation kind of thing. And then my other kids want to hang out with me when I'm pregnant and that's tricky when I'm curled up in fetal position drinking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bookishness, Pregnancy Tagged With: morning sickness, pregnancy

Why I Felt Guilty About My Last Pregnancy (and Why I Don’t Anymore)

January 7, 2014 By Haley 94 Comments

On a recent December afternoon, the “big kids” (age 2 and 4) went to grandma’s house and I got to spend a couple hours with just my baby girl (7 months). She took a cat nap in her crib and then promptly woke and I sat on the couch next to our twinkling Christmas tree and nursed her. She typically doesn’t fall asleep while nursing anymore, but this time she did. Her precious little body relaxed and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: NFP, Pregnancy Tagged With: nfp, pregnancy, siblings

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Welcome! I’m Haley Stewart, a bookish mama of four and wife to a beekeeper. Writer, speaker, podcaster, and Catholic convert. Homeschooling, bacon-eating, and bright red lipstick-wearing Jane Austen aficionado. My first book, The Grace of Enough: Pursuing Less and Living More in a Throwaway Culture is available now!

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