I’m a Mom Who’s Learned To Embrace Small Talk
As it turns out, small talk isn’t actually so small.
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Paid Parental Leave Could Have Transformed My Postpartum Experience
I can’t help but wonder how different things would have been if I had not been so pressured to return to work. If I’d been able to take my time recovering.
The 4 Worst Parts of Being a Work-From-Home Parent
There are some disadvantages to being a work-from-home parent that you might not realize. If you’ve ever thought of working from home with your kids, let me tell you, it might not be how you’ve imagined it.
Why You Should Belly Bind After Birth
Belly binding can help bring our muscles and connective tissues back together as our organs move back into place, as well as providing several other benefits in the early postpartum phase.
To All the Women About to Be Moms This Year
From the good and wonderful to the ugly and the hard, here’s what one mama of four wants you to know as you prepare to become a mom.
What Every Pregnant and New Mom Needs to Know About PPCM
If you are due soon or recently had a baby, this is actually a prime time to be aware of your own health– because if not, it could cost you your life.
I Tried Parenting like a German, and This Is What Happened
I might not fully embrace German-style parenting, but my month of trying it showed me just how my helicopter-mom ways were dragging me and my kids down.
My Only “Resolution” For the New Year Is To Survive
I see everyone and their sister fired up on Instagram, doing all the goals and resolutions and “fresh starts,” while I’m sitting here, still in my jammies, with yet another kid who was up all night puking, feeling more behind on life than ever.
Why Labor is Still Scary, Even After 6 Births — and What to Do About it
You would think after having six babies, I’d have this birth thing down pat. You’d be wrong.
3 Ways to Start the New Year Off as a Family
Let’s start the year off right, focused on family. Here are three ways to recommit to your family in the new year.
4 New Year’s Resolutions Every Mom Should Make
You are not a failure if you find that a certain lofty goal doesn’t actually fit into your life. As you work towards finding a balance that’s right for you and your family, expect growth and change to throw you off the charted course.
If Your House is Overflowing After the Holidays, Try this
Well, it’s over. The tree has been recycled, (or it’s in the backyard rotting) the decorations are put away, and the Christmas music has been banned again until next year. If you’re anything like our family, it feels like there’s this huge buildup to the Christmas season every year, and it starts earlier and earlier. … Continued
10 New Year’s Resolutions I Have No Business Trying to Make
In 2018, I will definitely be a better mother than I was in 2017. Just not in these ways.
To the Stranger Who Told Me I was Doing a Good Job, Thank You
As a mom, I’m pretty much coasting by on little snippets of encouragement and hope.
Why We Told the Truth About Santa– Even Though She Still Believed
Why, you might ask? Why spoil her fun and wonder-filled childhood Christmas memories?
Instead of Elf on the Shelf, We Do this
We have enough going on at this time of year — I’m not going to add a tradition that brings unnecessary pressure simply because everyone else is doing it.