Every time I see a picture of a beautiful mama on Instagram, sporting her tiger stripes that grew her darling babes I am in awe. I cannot believe the courage it takes to be ok with or even in love with your changing body after children. Combining environmental pressures to be perfect and “bounce back… Read More
Dear Baby I Never Got to Meet, Maybe you were just a line on a Dollar Store test. Maybe you were a special secret only I carried, just like I was the only one every to hold you. But you were mine. Ever so briefly. Not for long enough. You both gave me faith by… Read More
Dear Working Mom, I have never been in your shoes. I can pretend to know what it is like to get up Monday through Friday or whatever your hours may be, but I do not. I left my job as a nurse when I was 30 weeks pregnant with my first child. It was a… Read More
One of my favorite things to do is to observe the beauty in which different women in my life mother their children. So often, we are focused on how different we all are as mothers, that we fail to notice the similarities of our loving hearts. In honor of Mother’s Day, a holiday filled with… Read More
This post contains affiliate links. For more information see disclaimers. Are you like me? Do you shower at night after you kids go to bed? Sleep on it wet only to awaken to an electric socket do straight out of Back to the Future? Or do you hop in the shower (every three or so… Read More
This post contains affiliate links. For additional information see Disclaimers. I am all about the sleep. Our family functions much better when we are all getting quality sleep in our own safe spaces. Not sleeping well is a huge contributor to postpartum anxiety (read To The New Mama with Anxiety: You Are Not Alone). When… Read More
By now, you’ve likely seen the appalling at worst or incredibly misguided at best comments of Senator Maureen Walsh of Washington State made regarding nurses. If you did miss it here’s a link, Sen. Walsh asserts that often nurses have enough down time “play cards” therefore they don’t really need protected breaks for lunch etc.… Read More
There are links on this site that can be defined as “affiliate links”. This means that I may receive a small commission (at no cost to you) if you chose to purchase something through the links provided. It’s the middle of the night. You’ve made it through the dreaded sleep regression, but now something small… Read More
Background and personality wise I am a bit of a natural worrier when it comes to letting anyone watch my babies. Emotional scars run deep after years of seeing tragedies happen at the hands of care providers in the pediatric ICU. I tend to over think every scenario that could potentially go wrong when my… Read More
When my oldest was a baby we went a much more traditional route with food introduction. Purees to pouches to table food. By the time my daughter came around almost nineteen months later it was table scraps. Or as it is much more eloquently called baby led weaning. Both approaches are working as my kids… Read More
