Breastfeeding in the First Week: 4 Things You Will Be Glad You Knew
If you are expecting a new baby, your preparation list probably includes buying onesies, scanning Pinterest for baby announcement ideas, and educating yourself about…
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100 Great Gifts Ideas for Babies Under One
If you’re looking for some baby gift ideas – even gifts for infants – I think we all understand that babies don’t want or…
20 Things I Learned From My First 4 Months of Parenthood
My daughter just turned four months old and in some ways it has been a brutal four months. In other ways, I can’t believe…
15 Inspirational Quotes for New Parents
I wanted to find some quotes that gave a little inspiration on the whole parenting journey – even though I think “Shit Happens” pretty…
What you Need to Know About Newborns
A doctor told a very good friend of mine that the first three months of a newborn’s life is like a fourth trimester. He…
Best Books to Read When You’re Expecting
I often get asked for book recommendations from newly pregnant women – I can only assume it’s because they’ve already read every nook and…
Gird Your Loins: 4 Unexpected Truths From The First Month
Being pregnant is a long, boring and often miserable experience. To help pass that time, you’re probably on a non-stop internet cruise finding every…
Best Gifts for a New Mom
It’s really hard to find a nice gift for a new mother sometimes. Do you get something practical? Sentimental? Is it someone you want…
Your first-day-back-at-work breast pump bag packing list
Among the zillion other things you have to do when going back to work from your maternity leave, figuring out what goes into your…
Viral Comic Describing the Mother Mental Load is Everything
A French artist, Emma, has united moms of the world after her comic titled “You Should Have Asked” has gone mega viral. In it,…
Other Things Not To Say To A New Mom
I get it. I’m a new mom. You, stranger at the grocery store, are an old-hat mom. You know shit. For some reason…
The New Baby Milestones
The amount of development and change a baby goes through in a year IS mind-blowing. We need to know that our babies are heading…
What I’ve Learned So Far (10 Week Edition)
1. I need to have a shower everyday. After having my daughter, Ryley, a daily shower has become an absolute priority in a…
The 5 Types of New Mom Fatigue
Growing a human person from scratch and then raising them is wonderfully rewarding, but it’s also unrelenting and exhausting work. Once, long before I had…
I Don’t Want My Body Back – I Want ‘Me’ Back
I am newly postpartum, not quite awake, standing in the checkout line at the grocery store, shush-shushing a 4-litre jug of milk and rocking…
Showering After Labor, an Old Wives Tale?
Ever hear the one warning against showering after labor? Of course that’s probably the first thing you’ll want to do after hours of sweating…
Living on Baby Time
Why, might I ask, is it so overwhelming to complete simple, two minute tasks when you have a baby? That’s really a bit rhetorical,…
The Mile-High Milk Club – A Guide To Flying With Breastmilk
A while ago I had this great idea to run a post about the logistics of flying with breastmilk and then I realized I…
10 Phases Of Taking A Shower With A Newborn In The House
I asked my bud, Ilana, if I could post one of the sections of her book The Mommy Short’s Guide to Remarkably Average Parenting…
New Mom Guilt: Why You’re Not Failing as a Mother
I’ve gotten a lot of emails from women saying they feel overwhelmed by motherhood. Not in a dangerous way, just in an “I totally…