Pregnancy + Postpartum

When I was little, if I heard an unfamiliar noise in the house during the night, it was nearly impossible for me to fall back asleep. My mind would run wild, imagining the most ridiculous of scenarios and inducing...

I love a good birth story. Is it just me? Maybe I'm just "that friend" who asks overly invasive questions, but I love all of the minute details of new life coming into the world. I was already a mama...

While there are thousands of books to prepare you for parenthood, everything from sleep to discipline to breastfeeding and beyond, nothing quite prepares you for the vulnerability of motherhood. While your heart grows tenfold to make room for this...

At the insistence of my husband, I agreed to take a pregnancy test (but not until after inhaling my second muchaco of the night). He had picked up the test on his way home after being tipped off by...

  Three years. One HSG. Twenty five (maybe more) ultrasounds. A ridiculous amount of blood draws. Too many doctors appointments. Nine rounds of clomid. Three rounds of a trigger shot. Two failed IUIs. Three miscarriages. Hundreds of negative pregnancy tests.  This...

Bringing a baby earth side isn't always sunshine and rainbows, sometimes it's gray skies and rain. Leaving your baby in the NICU is hard enough while you're in the hospital but it's absolutely heart wrenching when you leave them to...

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...

9.09.09 was the day our baby went to heaven. I was 12 weeks along and miscarried. It's been 6 years and even though it gets a little bit easier to cope with each year, there is a never ending...

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...

While I was pregnant with my first child, the whole "birthing and newborn baby thing" was fascinating to me. I was obsessed with watching shows such as "Bringing Home Baby" and "A Baby Story". I would scroll through my...

There is nothing glamorous about the first trimester of pregnancy. Let's just all agree to agree on that before we proceed. The first trimester is about as glamorous as that LAST agonizing month (which I'm fairly certain contains 2,646,513,544...

I have debated writing this post for quite some time...I was fearful of judgment, scared to hurt feelings, and mostly hopeful I was wrong; but alas, I'm here to say: I never got the "pregnancy glow." I grew up listening to...