Martha Schneider

✨Lily’s Birth Story pt. 1✨(
September 23rd: I started having what I thought were just really intense Braxton Hicks, they continued through the night no matter the position change, and I couldn’t sleep through them.
September 24th: I spent the whole day in L&D triage, was having real contractions and what they call prodromal labor, and “preterm contractions with no dilation” and was sent home after 4 doses of a blood pressure medicine they were hoping would cause the contractions to stop but just made both mine and Lily’s heart rates skyrocket so they had to stop.
September 25th: lost my mucus plug and had started spotting (they thought this could have just been from checking my dilation so much)
September 26th: Riley was out of town for the marines so I stayed with family, the contractions still hadn’t stopped for DAYS and so I went back in when they were getting super intense again. Riley came home, and they gave me a “morphine sleep” to try and again stop my contractions, again it didn’t work and I slept through Sunday.
September 28th: I felt the best I had in days, my contractions had really slowed and I had finally gotten some sleep.... Riley came home from work, and we went to get some Panda Express because I was craving it. I made a joke about my water breaking and two pieces of pineapple putting me into labor, we ate our food and watched a movie - I stood up after the movie, told Riley I REALLY had to p*e because he was messing with me, and legit thought I was p*eing myself but knew I wasn’t p*eing and STILL had to go p*e - we discovered my WATER BROKE and started rushing around trying to find a way to get it to stop so we could go to the hospital. (If you’re wondering if your water breaks, YOULL KNOW. Even if it’s just leaking it’s like 10 gallons it seems like and for sure mine was like the movies. (I’ll put a funny clip in my stories 😂🙈)
So we went to the hospital, I literally had a towel between my legs and they knew right away what was up LMAO.
They asked me about the steroid for Lily’s lungs (after lord of discussing we decided it was best) and I was only dilated to a 1 but 60% effaced.
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✨ᴏɴᴇ ᴡᴇᴇᴋ of ʟɪʟɪᴀɴɴᴇ✨
Growing stronger everyday, still giving mom a heart attack daily but she’s actually the cutest smoosh 🙈 @ Denver, Colorado

B I G D A Y // God is G O O D!!
Lily gets to 𝔼𝔸𝕋 mommas 𝕄𝕀𝕃𝕂
She’s off high flow oxygen, on low flow (very common for Colorado babies to go home from NICU on this). She’s got a tube in her nose now instead of her mouth, so she gets to try eating, and she’s off the lights! Seriously big day over here and we’re having a little party! 🙌🏼

One step closer to home 💕

Ｆｉｎａｌｌｙ
48 hours strong, and we got to hold our precious little fighter! 🙌🏼

Prayers for getting this girl off of her CPAP, getting her eating, and for her bilirubin levels to go down!

❤️ thank you all for the love, support, and prayers @ Denver, Colorado

24 ℍ𝕠𝕦𝕣𝕤 𝕠𝕝𝕕 ❤️
Just pulled the breathing tube and hope to keep it out! Praying hard that we can hold our baby girl tonight ✨

✨Sweet 𝑳𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒆 𝑲𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒈𝒂𝒏✨
Welcome to the world, September 29th, 2020 at 10:41 am
We’re feeling so blessed that we’ve got such an amazing NICU on and to take such amazing care of our 33 +6 weeker 💕

So much is happening and changing literally every minute, prayers are beyond appreciated but we’ve got such a strong fighter on our hands! 🙌🏼

stay tuned for a WILD birth story.

“I am Ｓｔｒｅｓｓ free”
Today, I sat quiet for 10 WHOLE minutes for guided meditation. It’s 2020 y’all, and as an expectant momma I’ve gotta keep that stress as low as possible 😂

Here’s to the next 20 days of learning how to actually keep my eyes shut for the whole 10 minutes and not think about the fly in my garage 😅



@ Denver, Colorado

✨Ｄａｔｅ Ｎｉｇｈｔ✨
Got to celebrate my amazing husband and some really amazing work he’s doing as well as we’ve realized as baby gets closer nights like these will be a little more special!

Drop some date night ideas 👇🏻👇🏻 so I can look back on this tired af and keep our marriage “dating” strong!

You’re so 𝕊𝕋ℝ𝕆ℕ𝔾
When you feel ＤＥＦＥＡＴＥＤ
Remember that.
In the last week it’s felt like what’s been keeping me strong, fought my anxiety, and kept my head on straight has been ripped away from me.
For the last two years I’ve used working out as a coping mechanism for my anxiety and depression. It’s literally saved my life over and over.

I have made it to 32 weeks, growing this precious baby girl, and working out almost everyday. Pushing hard and showing my body what it is capable of even when I’ve doubted my strength.

I’m not alone. So many others have gone through the wringer this year, and to be honest nothing surprises me anymore with 2020. It’s time for me to learn new ways to cope, and push through on this way to motherhood 💕

What’s your favorite way to decompress?? 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 @ Denver, Colorado

Anyone else as HYPE for this weekend as baby girl and I am?!
We don’t even really have plans except a taco from a truck 😋

What are your weekend plans?? 🙈

Depressed + suicidal —> Healthy + Happy
It wasn’t just about losing the 40 pounds, but about being proud when I looked in the mirror. Feeling proud when I tell my husband about the killer workout I was able to finish, and feeling proud that my mental health is stable and put first finally.

Without this community, without this accountability, without these workouts, and getting rid of the “fad diet” mentality I would still be stuck and crying in the mirror hating myself and wondering how it got “this bad?”

Sound familiar? I don’t want it to! I wanna help you out of that... I wanna help you get past your fear and excuses and be HEALTHY AND HAPPY!
I’ve got 10 SPOTS open
Drop “I’m in” in the comments or fill out the

Is this a Milano ad? 😂 or just our first snow day of the year? ❤️
Don’t know what I’d do if God didn’t bring me a man who makes hot coco, turns on the fire place gives me cookies and starts singing Christmas music in September. He’s truly my other half ❤️