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How to Have Your Best Pregnancy: Third Trimester

Welcome to your third trimester! Kick your pain and discomfort to the curb with these simple steps. In just a few short weeks you get to meet your lovely bundle of joy, and I want you to be comfortable while you wait! I was SO miserable and uncomfortable during my …

How To Have Your Best Pregnancy: Second Trimester

Thanks for joining me in the second of three posts on how to have your best pregnancy! Here are tips and tricks for having your best second trimester. The second trimester has been my favorite for both of my pregnancies, (the first trimester is the worst; you can find those …

How To Have Your Best Pregnancy: First Trimester

I am in the middle of preparing a series on Gestational Diabetes, but I decided that a series about pregnancy was more urgent. (I was supposed to write this “best pregnancy” post during the week of January 22nd, according to my editorial calendar, but that never happened >.< ) I …

Quest to VBAC

  Last post I talked about the heartbreak I felt after the birth of my firstborn. Since it ended in a C-Section, I was determined to have my unmedicated, all-natural birth the second time around. *Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. This means that, at no added cost to …

The Heartbreak After The C-Section

  My son wailed in the heated bassinet a few steps away, and the nurses were running around trying to find a heated blanket so they could lay him on my chest. I felt like an incubator that was no longer useful. I did not feel like a mother. This …

How To Get Rid of Thrush (yeast infections) in BABY

  Welcome to the post to help you with your baby’s yeast infection, or thrush problems. To learn more about thrush, go here. To help cure Mama of thrush, go here. *Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. This means that, at no added cost to you, I may receive …

Playing With (and Adjusting to) Baby (0-6 months)

Playing with Your Newborn   When your baby is first born, you both need to recover from the birth and you need to adjust to having a newborn around. It is exhausting because Baby basically just eats, sleeps, and poops all day and night, so there are not very many opportunities …

How to Not Drop Your Baby in the Shower (0-8mo)

This is part of a series about Washing Baby. As a newborn, I would wash IV every three to four days, as his pediatrician suggested “to prevent dry skin”. However, he pretty much had chronic diaper rash until I started bathing him more frequently. So I decided dry skin was worth …

Hello world!!!!

This is my first blog post ever! I am so excited to have started this. Please remember, I am a beginner, and I am not a professional writer, so sometimes I just go off on tangents, misuse commas, and have other writing errors, so just bear with me. I LOVE …