“Mama did you wipe it down yet?” my 5-year-old asks about a package of candy my dad sent the kids I had just opened from the front step. 2 months ago, our almost 3-year-old and 5-year-old would’ve been snatching it out of my hands before I had a chance to even utter the words package…
PTSD. PPA. PPD. All abbreviations I have come to know in the last 5 years. First came the PTSD from the NICU stay and premie challenges during my first born’s year after arriving 6 weeks early. Intermingled with that was PPA that presented in a deep fear of germs and sickness after many ER trips…
The birth of my third little one, Leo, starts really days and weeks before his actual birth. For one I had been pregnant the longest ever by the 38th week and feeling uncomfortable and beyond ready to meet this little one. I had weeks of prodromal labor, often contractions lasting for hours as close as…
I have received a number of requests for a book list of recommendations prior, during and after pregnancy. The challenge is my ever expanding library of all things birth and postpartum is tough to narrow down, so I will just share most of what I have and a few insights on them. As a wise…
“Have you tried ginger?” becomes the classic response to the overwhelming nausea many pregnant people experience. By the third time around I had to resist rolling my eyes and making sure my smile didn’t look too fake when delivering my reply of yes I have tried it all. The crackers before getting out of bed,…
I was about to write a post on the first half of pregnancy now being at 22 weeks, but then realized it might be a book’s worth of reading! Instead I’ve decided to break it down into a few shorter posts, and figured what better way than to start at the beginning? *Before I continue…
Every mother will tell you there was something she swore she’d never do as a mom and laughs at how motherhood has a sense of humor when you say “never’. For me it was thinking getting a babysitter was easy. I still laugh as I type that! Recently though, pregnant with my third, it was…
Fluff butt! This is a long overdue blog post on our transition to cloth diapering and our growing love for all things fluff. Everyone has their reasons for doing cloth over disposables (aka sposies in the cloth world) and everyone has a preference for how they cloth (full time, just at home, not on vacation,…
Recently I have had a number of prenatal yoga practitioners who are expecting their second little one ask me what the transition from 1 to 2 is like. Now that my oldest is 3 and youngest is 1 it seems a good time to tackle this frequently asked question. The short answer is this: everyone…