Hello! and welcome!
My name is Katrina, and I’m the author of They All Call Me Mom. I started this blog in 2007 as a way to document my crazy busy days raising (many!) children. I live in southern CA with my hard-working, handsome fire fight’n husband of 27 years (Rich) and our children (Anthony, Audriana, Afton, Alex, Avery, A.J., Aislynn, Andrew, Aria, Aiden and *Aaron) I also share my home with 9 rabbits, 2 boxers, and a goldfish.
Thank you for stopping by They All Call Me Mom. I hope you will stay a while and look around, maybe leave a comment or two!
~ Katrina
*Our 11th child Aaron now lives in Heaven. You can read about Aaron’s story here and here.
You can get in touch with me by email: mommy10times@aol.com
I love your writings. And I have an Aaron, too. And we were also told he was “incompatible with life” (T18). But he’s now 5 years old, our 9th child, and light of our lives. What a blessing these little ones are, and always hold out for hope.
Thank you, Rebekah!
So your Aaron is five years old with T18. Amazing to hear this, when we are told there is no hope. There is always hope! So happy that your family is blessed with this very special boy. Five years! I love hearing this
Hi Katrina , stumbled upon your blog after you had left a comment on a article about a coulple who have been told their baby girl has T18. May I first say I can understand how you may be feeling . I too chose to carry to full term . In 2013 when pregnant with my with my fourth child ,was told via a amniocentesis results that my baby had Full Trisomy 13. The dreadfull statistics where given to us ” incompatible with life ” etc. They assured us the tests where 99% accurate and that our baby girl had Full Trisomy , not Mosaic or Translocation. Our daughter was born on 11 November 2013 . Months later she was re tested and found to have Mosaic Trisomy 13 and NOT the Full T13 . All I can say Katrina is that only time will tell in these matters. I hope the best for you and your family .
Wow, that’s so interesting. Thank you for sharing this with me, for giving me hope. You are right. Only time will tell.
Thank you sharing your story. I too am carrying my precious third baby, my son, at 29 weeks and diagnosed with trisomy 13. Reading your post about his heart felt like reading my own situation. Everything the ultrasound picked something up, long list of abnormalities, I prayed over them and God healed them…but not the heart, yet. I’m still praying. Yes, there is so much going on with his DNA that these specific thugs God heals is a reason for celebration for us as well. I pray my son will be healed of his heart defects (3 chambered hplh) so we can have some time with him alive. Sending hugs and prayers to you and your family. Although it’s such a difficult journey, I somewhat feel privileged God saw us worthy to carry out special children. ?
I feel the same way:)
Thank you for sharing. I hope you get lots of time with your son.
Hi Katrina,
I just wanted to let you know that I read your letter and thank you so much for letting me know a little bit about Aria and where she’s coming from. What a neat blog! Thank you so much for sharing and I look forward to meeting you!
Sarah Simmel