I am not crafty, but I am super sentimental. I treasure memories (not unlike most other moms.:) And as far as mom memories go, not much tops the beautiful, distinct memories of a birth-giving day. Those precious first hours and days with a new baby are something to be remembered forever. After ...
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Natural Birth: at the Hospital or at the Birthing Center?
I've experienced three drastically births now: an emergency C-section, a natural VBAC at the hospital and finally a water birth at a birthing center. The purpose of this post is to give you a side by side comparison of what unmedicated labor and delivery was like for me at a hospital and at a ...
Solutions for Pregnancy Insomnia
I can't sleep. That's why I'm up writing this right now. When there is a human growing inside of me and I'm the most exhausted I've ever been, that is precisely when my body says, hey cool, let's keep her awake! Pregnancy insomnia has been getting the best of me for three pregnancies now. I ...
Easy Quiche Cups: Make Ahead Hearty Breakfast for Busy Mornings
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of the happy egg co.. All opinions are 100% mine. Here are the people I have living in my house: -A husband who will not eat breakfast unless I hand it to him as he walks out the door for work. (I'll never understand him for not making breakfast his ...
The sadness that sets in before you add a new member to your family
I've felt it every time. The week before my wedding as I packed up my room at my parents' house. The night before I was induced with my first baby. The morning we left for the hospital, in labor with our second. Every time a new member was about to be added to my family, I've spiraled into ...
Surviving post-pregnancy hair loss
Yes. Post-pregnancy hair loss. It is a thing. It's not a thing we talk a lot about. But somewhere between two and four months after baby comes, it'll be the only thing you can think of. Just when baby starts to reach and grab with those perpetually clammy little hands (YOUCH!), you're losing hair ...
The one thing every mom should put on her birth plan
I'm by no means a professional on the topic of labor and delivery, but I've lived through two vastly different births now. So I've learned a thing or two about birth plans. The overdue pregnancy with induced labor that ended in an emergency c-section taught me not to get too hung up on a birth ...
I love your birth photo, but I don’t love mine
I love birth photos. The ones with the exhausted new mom clutching her naked new baby in sheer joy. Love to see them, and love to hear the stories behind them. But, I don't have one of those. Or at least I didn't with my first baby. I have this kind of awkward picture that I’ve only let a ...