Happily After Giving Birth – 10 Things They Don’t Tell You
1. You will have a really heavy period. No matter how you give birth (c-section or va-j) you will have postpartum bleeding. This delightful…
Whether you’re in the “mama”, “mommy” or “mom” stage, these posts are for you. Feel free to read them while you’re peeing alone. LOL. We both know that never happens.
1. You will have a really heavy period. No matter how you give birth (c-section or va-j) you will have postpartum bleeding. This delightful…
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…
My desire to have a third child flip-flops every day. It’s like watching The Bachelor, where he can’t decide between two potential mates, picks one,…
When my first baby napped, I lay right there with him. Sometimes we’d drift off together, other times I’d just stare at his peaceful…
My great-grandmother always said “babies need air” – meaning that they should go outside every day. I’m not sure if there is any science…
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…
Being pregnant for the second time did not resemble my memory (fantasy?) of the first time around. I felt much more sick, more exhausted,…
Before I had children, my dog was my baby. I missed her when I was out. We had a “cuddle on the couch”…
We finished up at the mall play area and agreed to meet in the parking lot so I could lead the caravan to the…
With my first child, I was prepared to not know everything, and relied on advice from books and people like my mother who raised…
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…
A French artist, Emma, has united moms of the world after her comic titled “You Should Have Asked” has gone mega viral. In it,…
To all of my friends that had children before me, I owe you a heartfelt apology. I was wrong. So wrong. About everything. I…
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…
When I brought my first newborn home, I assumed there must have been a wild and wounded look in my eyes. It was the…
Step 1: Get kicked/wheeled out of the hospital. Take way too long trying to put the baby in the car seat, everything feels way…
1. I need to have a shower everyday. After having my daughter, Ryley, a daily shower has become an absolute priority in a…
I’ve gotten a lot of emails from women saying they feel overwhelmed by motherhood. Not in a dangerous way, just in a mom guilt…
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…
What is Postpartum? In simple terms, postpartum is the period following birth. In our current healthcare climate, this means 2 nights at the hospital before…