Pregnancy + Postpartum

I became a NICU parent last October and by golly if 2020 did not have enough challenges, this completely turned our lives upside down. Here is a list, by no means exhaustive of things every NICU parent should know! 1....

"You have great birthing hips!" "Excuse me?  What am I, a cow? Nevermind.  What would you like to order?" No, this was not an exchange of words between my doctor and I, but between me, as a 17-year-old waitress, and one...

{{Brea Delane Seale}} Even as I write this, the roller coaster of emotions comes flooding back to me.... Fear. Excitement. Peace. Frustration. Heartbreaking Sadness. Completion. It was supposed to be an easy birth.  This was my sixth labor.  And all five of the previous labors were routine.  After...

Nothing has come more natural to me than parenting. Hear me out when I say I am not writing this to brag or shame anyone. I am writing this to share how you too can be confident in your...

C-Section. Say that word in a group of moms and you’ll immediately see some very strong responses. Some are stricken, others are disgusted, while some are raising their hands in praise. If you’ve ever talked about birth stories in a...

8 weeks ago, just before my daughter's third birthday, we found out we were expecting baby #2.  We are SO excited to meet this new little one, and thrilled to be able to give my daughter a sibling.  Unfortunately,...

  Before my experience with miscarriage, it was difficult for me to understand how to comfort a mother who’s experienced such a loss. I was fearful of reaching out, saying the wrong thing, or bringing up something that she had...

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...

Some of you are ready to pounce and lecture me just because of the title of this blog. I understand your hesitancy to accept my charge - but hear me out.  Many of us have experienced the fascinating phenomenon that...

When you picture home birth do you get anxious, skeptical, or even weirded out?  Then this post is just for you.  OKC Moms Blog's resident home birthers (contributors Becky and Anna) want to clear up some misconceptions and hopefully...

The little pink line. The little blue line. Nobody told us when we were little girls just how much a tiny splotch of dye in a tiny window on a "just peed on" stick would mean for the course of our...

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: MOTHERHOOD I waited the better part of 39 years to become a mom, and there were many years when I didn't think it would ever happen.  When I got that big fat positive on our first anniversary in...