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    • Grace: How a Recovering Legalist Moves Forward in Faith
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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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    • ADHD Homeschooling: Hacks, Tricks, and Tips for Making It Work
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    • Home preschool resources for the tired, non-creative, busy mom
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    • 31 Days of Supporting the Special Needs Family
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  • Home
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  • Start Here!
    • Hi, I’m Aprille…
    • Contact Me!
    • The Story Behind the Header
    • Blog’s Mission Statement
    • Blog Series
    • Top Ten Posts of All Time
    • Legalism and Grace: How I Left the IFB Movement and Chose Grace
    • Grace: How a Recovering Legalist Moves Forward in Faith
    • Online Writing Portfolio
  • Marriage
    • Our Love Story
  • Faith
  • Motherhood
    • Mothering Through Fatigue Blog Series
    • 20 Posts to Encourage Young New Moms
  • Military & Veteran Life
    • Encouragement and Resources for the Military Wife
    • Our final military deployment homecoming: finally together forever!
    • Homecoming 2009
  • Pregnancy & Birth
    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
  • Homeschooling
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    • ADHD Homeschooling: Hacks, Tricks, and Tips for Making It Work
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    • Home preschool resources for the tired, non-creative, busy mom
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  • Birthdays,  Ezra,  Family,  Little Brother,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    An open letter to my blue-eyed baby on his first birthday

    / September 3, 2016 / 14 Comments

    Hi Baby. You don’t really understand, but today is your FIRST BIRTHDAY. We made it! And of course, we are celebrating in style by waking up at 5 AM! Little Brother, you have…

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  • Ezra,  Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Pregnancy & Birth

    Finding emotional healing from my primary c-section

    / October 14, 2015 / 2 Comments

    Written on April 30, 2015 23 Weeks, 1 day Last week I realized that I didn’t remember what the pain felt like. I know it was bad and there was screaming, but it’s…

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  • Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Little Brother,  Pregnancy & Birth

    Optimal fetal positioning: what does science have to say?

    / October 12, 2015 / 9 Comments

    Optimal fetal positioning is a hot buzzword in the natural birthing world, especially when it comes to VBAC. So what is it all about, and why does it matter? More importantly, what does the…

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  • Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Pregnancy & Birth

    Affirmations for ANY birth (even a c-section!)

    / October 10, 2015 / 7 Comments

    Birth affirmations. Those wonderful mantras that mamas repeat to themselves in pregnancy and birth to maintain a positive outlook on birth. When I was preparing for my VBAC, I ATE THEM UP! (You…

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  • Little Brother,  Pregnancy & Birth

    Little Brother’s Birth Story {the long version with pictures and video}

    / October 2, 2015 / 14 Comments

    Little Brother arrived Thursday, September 3rd, 2015 at 5:58PM. He weighed in at 10 lb 1 oz, 22 inches long. I went past my “due date.” This was not all that concerning to…

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  • Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Little Brother,  Motherhood,  Pregnancy & Birth

    31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}

    / October 1, 2015 / 13 Comments

    I started preparing for VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean) pretty much from the moment I brought Ezra (my first child) home for the hospital. His birth was scary, traumatic, and disappointing. I knew…

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  • Family,  Little Brother,  Pregnancy & Birth

    Little Brother is here! {and short-ish version of the birth story}

    / September 9, 2015 / 13 Comments

    Little Brother arrived Thursday, September 3rd, 2015 at 5:58PM. He weighed in at 10 lb 1 oz, 22 inches long. I plan to share his birth story in a lot more detail with…

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  • Ezra,  Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Pregnancy & Birth

    Ezra’s (Cesarean) Birth Story

    / February 27, 2011 / 34 Comments

    “Let labor begin on it’s own…” (Lamaze Healthy Birth Practice #1) On the evening of September 6, 2010, this was the one thing I was trying to repeat over and over to myself.…

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  • Ezra,  Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Motherhood

    Birth Announcement and Recovery Update

    / September 17, 2010 / 12 Comments

    Ezra was born September 7th, 10:32 PM. He weighed 9 lbs 13 oz and was 21 1/2 inches long. When I ended up delivering Ezra by cesarean (that is a long story in…

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