Looking down at my son, our hands intertwining and interlocking as he nursed, I couldn’t believe I had exclusively breastfed him these past 11 months. Now as the end of his first year of life was fast approaching, the thought of weaning him overwhelmed my heart. I remember beginning our journey together. We had made …
Whenever I start to feel comfortable with where I’m at in my current stage of motherhood, the comparison trap hits. We all talk about it; we all hate it, but it happens to all of us nonetheless. I look up less often and look to the left and right more often. Believing I need something …
The rain came down in sheets creating large puddles in the brown grass. As the dark gray sky emptied its large buckets of water onto the parched earth, Baby Boy and I went to the front door to watch. It had been a long dry season of insignificant rains, scarcely long enough to wet the …
My cousin said it best when she said, “Each month seems to be my favorite month with my baby.” I feel like we are thinking the same thing. I thought 6 months was my favorite until 7 months hit, and then 7 months was trumped by 8 months. And now we have a 9-month-old, so …
Do you ever feel like you work and work and work only to feel like you’re a rat on a spinning wheel and the joke is on you–heads up, you’re not going anywhere? Like, you haven’t sat down or really taken a break in….hold on, days?! That even when the naps happen (do they really …
1. You can do anything for {insert amount of time}. 1 minute. 2 hours. 1 week. 6 months. I always think about exclusively breastfeeding in terms of working out, when the instructor screams at you during a plank, saying you have only 30 seconds left. And you think, “Sure! I’ve got this!” Only to realize …
So how are you? How’s it going? My friend asked over the phone, making me pause in my response. Three simple words. A loaded question, if you will. A question that could begin a super long, taxing conversation, or become a really brief back and forth of side-stepping everything. What would I say? How’s it …
Just when I think I’ve escaped, postpartum hormones wash over me like a fog of darkness. The sun has set, and my husband and I are usually sitting on the couch by the time postpartum sets in, like doom and gloom. No matter how great the day was, how “successful” I felt, postpartum settles in …
Birth stories are always interesting to hear. Everyone has a different story which is so cool! No two stories are alike which makes the whole birth process elusive and difficult to really grasp in your mind. When I got pregnant with Baby Boy, my first thought was not, “I’m going to try for a natural …
No one could have prepared me for what a labor does to you, through you, in you. No one but my doula, Meg, and my husband, Jonathan. Now looking back, I can’t imagine going through labor without help. The education and knowledge I learned from taking the all natural birth class Mama Natural empowered my …
