Family Planning Now, whatever your reason for being interested in family planning, you should select the method that works best for you. Talk with your OB/GYN or Primary Care Provider about your plans for future children, religious or personal beliefs, period symptoms, scheduling concerns (can you remember to take a pill the same time every […]
Around 115 kids are abducted by strangers in our country every year. Lightning strikes approximately 300 people in the same time period. My point? Your child has a greater chance of being struck by lightning . . . twice . . . than he or she does of being kidnapped by a stranger. More good […]
Congratulations, mama! You survived TEN grueling months of nausea, swollen ankles, frequent urination, and sleep deprivation. Your reward? A tiny, adoring human — and the return of your monthly visitor. While you are thrilled to be a mother, you’re not quite ready to do it again – at least not in the near future . […]
After the initial shock of finding out I was pregnant after ten years of trying, I began to plan every detail of my birth. I found a midwife and birth center at eight weeks pregnant, hired a doula at twelve weeks, wrote my birth plan at twenty-four weeks. I even planned the song that would […]
May is National Doula Appreciation month. That means we moms fortunate enough to have a doula get to thank the women who stood by our sides. Doulas offer support during what may be the most excruciatingly painful/joyful times in our lives. For those who don’t know? A doula offers emotional, social, psychological and physiological support […]
My kids’ father . . . my ex-husband . . . is an alcoholic. I suppose I knew this even when were dating. We would go out after work and drink. And he drank a lot. But we were in our twenties and hanging out with friends. I thought surely he would settle down after […]
It started out innocently enough. A few times a week, I popped in a T29 workout video. My infant son slept sweetly in his bouncy chair just a few feet from me, his sweaty mama with the burning thighs and (aspiring) buns of steel. Next, I decided MyFitnessPal would be a helpful addition to my […]
My son started saying, “There you go,” when he was around eleven months old. He wasn’t officially talking, per se; he was repeating sounds. (Or so the experts on the internet said). I never really noticed how many times a day I say “there you go” until he began repeating it back to me. I say […]
Forewarning: I write this post highly medicated and as a mom with two out of three kids with the flu. I can’t make this stuff up. You see, this past Friday I channeled my inner youth and had my wisdom teeth removed. All through my teen years, I was told I didn’t have any wisdom […]
Bedtime . . . Yep. I said it. My most beloved, yet stressful time of EVERY SINGLE DAY. This mom often feels like Cinderella at bedtime. If my kids are up past 7:30pm? Our home becomes a pumpkin, and I turn into a monster. Okay, maybe I need to work on that Cinderella analogy . […]
