This Baby Gift Idea Will Blow Their Future Minds
Hold on to your butts. I’m about pass along a pretty incredible baby gift idea. This gift? It’s affordable. It’s clever. It’s sweet and…
Hold on to your butts. I’m about pass along a pretty incredible baby gift idea. This gift? It’s affordable. It’s clever. It’s sweet and…
On a scale of one to ten, I’d say flying solo with a young baby is a solid fifteen on the old stress-o-meter. There’s…
After nearly four months of maternity leave, I returned to work on a Wednesday in April. To my surprise, I was welcomed by a decorated…
I think it’s safe to say that the icky, less-than-glamorous parts of pregnancy have been pretty well documented by now. It’s no longer taboo…
I have to imagine that one of the greatest struggles of maternity leave has got to be finding the will and strength to leave…
Dear (insert your name here if you are a female friend of mine with a child born before my own), I owe you a big…
I was on the phone with my best friend the other day and she said something that really resonated with me: “I was the best mom ever before I actually had kids.”…
I am not the first or last postpartum mama who is going to get asked over and over if they are pregnant and then…
Getting pregnant was a surprise for me. Not to say that the method was a surprise – but the time frame certainly was. I…
I know why I stopped talking about my miscarriage. Despite the best intentions of my loved ones and friends, I didn’t feel like the…
We finished up at the mall play area and agreed to meet in the parking lot so I could lead the caravan to the…
On our first morning of our first family vacation in three years, I woke up almost giddy with excitement at the prospect of my…
I don’t wait patiently for anything. The “are you going to find out the sex?” question was laughable to anyone who knew me. The…
Two hours after my son was born, a lactation consultant knocked on my hospital room door. She peeked her head in and asked “Are…
Me to my friend, “I’m so tired. I haven’t gotten more than three consecutive hours of sleep in 13 months.” Random person (who…
On the first day of my first ‘Baby and Me’ class, the lengthiest discussion we had was about how to fit workouts into our…
I don’t know how it is where you are, but around here “breast is best” is tattooed on our bosoms. And it’s true that…
My pregnancy was far from picture perfect. I’ve written before about the struggle to conceive and touched briefly on the laundry list of pregnancy-related…
“My name is Melissa and I just had a baby.” The first step in any recovery is admission, right? They say that becoming a…
I’m in a play right now. You might have heard of it. Pink is my signature color. Steel Magnolias, anyone? Doesn’t that conjure up…