Dear New Mamas,
I see you agonizing over every little decision for this little human and thinking "Am I already somehow messing this up?"
I remember, extremely vividly, driving myself mad after I had my son. My trigger, you ask? Breastfeeding....
My husband and I were ecstatic when we first learned that we were expecting our second child. It happened much quicker than the first time and meant that our kids would be about two years apart. As my pregnancy...
When you're a first time Mom, you try and read as much as possible. Except, sometimes it's just Facebook groups, "Dr. Google", and your pediatrician. When your baby hits the 4-month mark, suddenly the groups get more active and...
Gratitude.
It's a word I talk and think about often but sometimes I don't practice it as often as I should. Who has the time? Sometimes life gets hard and busy, and I struggle to remember how amazing my life...
Throughout my second pregnancy, my husband and I would talk about how we hoped the baby would be just like our first son. When I mentioned this to my mom, she simply replied, "It won't be." Of course, I...
Single parenting? Where should we begin?
I have been a single parent for five years essentially but only two years per legal documents. This was not the path I would have ever chosen for myself or for my worst enemy. ...
Do you remember the first time you picked up a crayon to color your first coloring book?
During that experience, you were staring at bold black lines. You might have scribbled all over the page with complete freedom. Eventually, you...
The 4th Trimester…. If you’re anything like me (first-time mama over here) then before you were pregnant this may have been a completely foreign word to you. Everyone talks about the three trimesters in pregnancy but it wasn’t until...
Rewind to 2011, I had this whole fairytale romance and picture-perfect future mapped out, or so I thought. Fast forward a little while to March 2012 and I’m a month out from welcoming our beautiful baby girl into the...
Math isn’t my bag; science is. However, in the last two weeks, I have received a crash course from the school of hard-knocks in math – multiplying and dividing to navigate the transition from one child to two. In...
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