As the birth of our second son kind of completely sneaks up on me, I'm realizing how blessed my little family truly is. I've fought pretty hard against having any baby showers, mostly because our kiddos will be about...
When I was a teen/in my early 20s I had an eating disorder. You know what? That’s just not true. I still have an eating disorder. I will always have one. I don’t have a unique story. Per the International Journal of...
Yes, you read that correctly! I do not buy gifts for babies. I am a firm believer in not buying gifts for a child that I don't even know, and probably won't know, or for a child who probably won't be...
Dear Labor & Delivery Nurses: Your work is so very important and special. Unfortunately it is often underappreciated. Doctors often get the credit for the safe arrival of a healthy baby while you have spent the majority of the time...
**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.** Breastfeeding is the strangest, most wonderful thing I have ever been blessed...
Dear Daughter, Before society tries to tell the meaning of my marks, I want to tell you the story of these lines. These marks tell the story of us, each line you drew by your own being. My marks tell a...
If you’re a parent the likelihood of you having a mile-long list of things you said you’d never do pre-children...is probably pretty high. You know what I’m talking about right? The things you witnessed in others and instantly said “my...
When I was pregnant with my daughter, I signed my husband and me up for all the classes that our hospital offered. Birth, breastfeeding, newborn care...you name it, we were there. The only one we missed was the night they...
I think most moms are aware that after giving birth, one's body changes. Some things are squishier, some are saggier, some are stretch-markier, and weight is just redistributed in different places. We discuss these things at play dates and...
There's no shortage of ideas out there for baby shower gifts: nursing pillow, burp cloths, diapers, wipes, butt cream, nipple cream...you get the idea. What about gifts for mama? Yes, she'll NEED your trusty padsicle recipe and setting up a...
Shopping a baby registry lately had my head spinning. This was a modestly short baby registry on Amazon, and it still had 90 items listed. There are so many innovative and seemingly useful products, but how do you figure...
In the last year, my husband and I have undergone six intrauterine insemination cycles. Of those six cycles, we've had one successful round that unfortunately ended in miscarriage.  What I wish I had known prior to our first appointment, was...

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