It didn't happen overnight; in fact, it took almost three years for it to happen. But it did happen, finally, and then I became a Mommy Blogger.

First, though, I was a writer. Actually, it was worse than that; I was a POET. I wrote lovely poems that were published almost nowhere, and read my poems to teeming crowds at poetry readings (a teeming poetry crowd, by the way, is usually about eight people). But I also kept a private journal because they say you aren't really a writer unless you journal. But my journals were full of complaints and whines about my life and were certainly no fun to read.

But then I decided (along with my husband) that it was time to start a family. Easy, right? Nope. Not for us. After trying and trying (that was fun while it lasted), we could not get pregnant on our own. So we began the long struggle of assisted reproduction, and it was during that process that I discovered the amazing world of blogs.

At the time, there were only a small handful of women blogging about their struggles to get pregnant. There were only about six well-known infertility bloggers, and it didn't take long for me to see how blogging would be a great way to cope with our infertility struggles as well as find support and guidance from those that had gone on before. So in March of 2004 I launched my blog, "And I Wasted All That Birth Control..."

I loved blogging, and soon, people (other than friends and family) started reading. Not long after I began I underwent my first IVF cycle, and was lucky enough to get pregnant with twin boys. It was a happy, heady time made tough by an incredibly difficult pregnancy, and blogging kept me sane.

I was not quite six months pregnant when the worst happened: I developed severe pre-eclampsia. One twin passed away, and within a few days I was informed I needed to terminate my pregnancy or I would die.

Again, it was blogging that kept me sane, even during the dark times when I was trolled* and abused by strangers. But over 1,000 comments came the day I had to say goodbye to both my sons Nicholas and Zachary. With the help of my readers, I survived the year after I lost the boys, and decided to try again. This time, things went well, and on June 7, 2006 my daughter Victoria Anne Sarah (but you can call her Tori) was born.

And that was the day I became a Mommy Blogger.

So, what is Mommy Blogging? Do Mommy Bloggers just write about their children? How many Mommy Blogs are out there? How do you become a Mommy Blogger--and how do you become a successful money-making Mommy Blogger? And did I say trolls?

These are the issues and questions I plan to explore here at Type-A Mom, and we will learn more about the art of Mommy Blogging together (I hope!). Stay tuned to this space as we meet the most famous Mommy Bloggers and hear about how they became successful. I hope you are looking forward to this as much as I am!

*Trolls are an Internet fixture; they are basically people who have nothing better to do than post nasty comments and interfere with normal Internet business. With luck, you will never meet one.

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