Pregnancy + Postpartum

This is the last of our Adventures in Breastfeeding series! We hope you have enjoyed it...and that you have identified with at least one of these posts! Hi my name is Carrie and I have milk supply issues. With my...

“Oh! I’m fine. It’s nothing!” – a simple phrase I often hear from mothers, the ever self-sacrificing force in a family unit. We often place ourselves last while juggling the responsibilities of caring for our loved ones. Sometimes though,...

  I have 3 people I get to claim I gave birth to.  It was 13, 11, and 9 years ago.  And I'm going to make a confession. I don't really remember much of any of their births. I sometimes feel weird...

I have debated writing this post for quite some time...I was fearful of judgment, scared to hurt feelings, and mostly hopeful I was wrong; but alas, I'm here to say: I never got the "pregnancy glow." I grew up listening to...

Dear First Time Mom-To-Be, I remember being in your shoes. I was terrified. I was nervous. I was second guessing the whole family thing when I realized that in less than 9 months, a baby roughly the size of a...

Let's be honest, work isn't exactly the first thing that goes through your mind when you find yourself staring at a positive pregnancy test. But maybe it's the fifteenth? Or the eighty-third? It doesn't matter when it crosses your mind, it just matters that...

In the last year, my husband and I have undergone six intrauterine insemination cycles. Of those six cycles, we've had one successful round that unfortunately ended in miscarriage.  What I wish I had known prior to our first appointment, was...

To begin, I feel it must be said that I firmly believe every birth is incredible! Whether you have a C-Section birth, a natural birth, a medicated birth, a home birth, a tub birth… Mama, you just birthed a...

Before I had my daughter, I barely paid any attention to the many photos of kids in my Facebook and Instagram news feeds. Sometimes those photos even got old, tedious to scroll past when I had other things I...

The tiny squish in this picture just turned one, and I know you know what I mean when I say my hormones are playing games with me. They're playing the "you want another one, don't you, mama?" game. While I am totally not...

New life is so precious. Those exhilarating moments just after your newborn has exited your body in an explosion of searing pain and now lays cuddled safe and warm on mama’s chest. The space where all the pain of...

When I became pregnant with my daughter, I quickly began outgrowing my closet of XS size tops and size 0 pants. As a young lady with few other friends with children, I resorted to a Google search of the...