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**Each Friday, starting Nov 7 and for the next 7 weeks, we will be posting a new blog post about breastfeeding and several different journeys our team has experienced.** I'm the kind of person who researches everything. Research makes me...

Dear little one, You've turned one, and you aren't a baby anymore, but I want you to know that you will always be my baby. Your brothers will always be my babies, too, but you are different because you are...

  Dear new mom fighting postpartum depression, After my second daughter was born, I was a mess. Emotionally and physically. I kept it a secret, of course. Rarely would I let anybody catch a glimpse that I was having a hard time...

Are you crafty? Do you like to save money? Does your baby go through formula like it’s going out of style, leaving you with a dozen empty formula containers? If you answered yes to these questions, these DIY ideas are...

I once declared that I could not be a mom if I did not wear my baby. You may think that's extreme, but for me it's completely true. I have a demanding child, plus I want to go back...

Just A Quiet Saturday Evening We squeaked into Saturday evening Mass about 3 minutes late. At most other parishes, the priest might just be starting, but not at my parish. Our awesome priest is retired military and Mass starts right on time....

Nursing can be a beautiful bonding experience for moms. Some of the most beautiful newborn pictures I have ever seen have been of moms nursing their babies in a beautiful rocking chair in a nursery taken straight out of...

Two pink lines. Positive. Pregnant.  It's the only thing some of you are wanting this Christmas. To see a ray of hope in the long journey of growing your family. To experience the joy of life after the sorrow of waiting--or the...

I planned to share how wonderful and convenient breastfeeding is. I imagined sharing what a sweet bond it is, how you don't have to tote bottles around or run out to the store to buy formula, how breastfed babies...

"Having kids changes everything". As parents we hear that classic line repeatedly, but until you've lived it, you just have no clue. About most any of it. Pre-kid, my perfectionist and Type A self was completely delusional as to how my life...

"So what do you DO with them?" -everyone ever, when they find out I work with toddlers on speech and language. As a practicing early intervention speech pathologist, I get a lot of questions about language stimulation that parents can...

We're back in the land of the living! Over the last two weeks we contracted everything you could possibly get by licking a Walmart shopping cart handle and it wasn't pretty. We ALL had an ugly stomach bug and...