One huge aspect of having a baby is how you will pay for the health care and medical costs that quickly add up throughout pregnancy and during a birth. I know insurance is a messy and complicated monster, but in order to understand why I […]
I’m rounding out the end of my second trimester now. In fact today marks 25 weeks and 5 days. I only have about a week left until I’m in the third trimester and it is the most surreal feeling ever. For my first pregnancy I […]
It is no secret that I hated postpartum life. I love being pregnant. I love having a fresh newborn to love on, but I hated recovering from labor. I documented a little bit of my postpartum recovery here in my post Bouncing Back Is A […]
What I have learned, throughout my now two years of pregnancy/motherhood, is that just because people have raised a child doesn’t make them an expert, but it sure does give them opinions (said blogger sharing opinions with the world.) From the time I got pregnant […]
This week I am 22 weeks pregnant with my second pregnancy. There is nothing I love more, or wanted more, than to be growing another life, but that isn’t to say that a second pregnancy hasn’t come with its own special challenges. Challenges I didn’t […]
Let me begin by saying that to me, none of these things are “weird.” These choices are simply what is the best choice for either me, my baby, or both of us, as I have done a lot of research on each topic. Some choices […]
As I get further along in my pregnancy I am feeling more and more compelled to prepare for this new arrival. I am beginning to plan a new nursery (something I didn’t really get to do with Holden because we were sharing a bedroom) and […]
Goodbye 2017! Hello 2018! 2017 has been a huge year for our family. Holden turned one in October, so most of 2017 was spent enjoying lots of firsts for him and enjoying my first year of motherhood. I didn’t let a holiday or event go […]
I recently read a post about how women should stop romanticizing birth. As I read this post (linked here) I knew immediately that this post was directed at me. (Also, Romper’s 7 Reasons’s People Need to Stop Romanticizing Breastfeeding is linked here.) I could definitely […]
I always intended on breastfeeding, but donating milk never crossed my mind before I had Holden. I’d heard of milk donation, and thought it was admirable, but I didn’t set out with milk donation in mind. When I first began to breastfeed I just wanted […]
