“What’s it like to have a c-section?” That’s the search term I was frantically Googling at 3 am a little over a week ago. Although I had already had a c-section, it was almost 8 years ago. I can barely remember what happened in my life yesterday, so trying to think back that far wasn’t…
Category: Parenting
Ode To This Pregnant Body
My pregnant body and I haven’t always been on the best of terms. In fact, during my first trimester, I legitimately thought it was trying to kill me. Between it trolling me with morning sickness that lasted day and night, to aches and pains in body parts that I didn’t even know existed, the only…
Giving Birth to Me
Women go through so many changes during pregnancy. Physically, our bodies morph into whatever it needs to in order to provide sustenance to our babies. We endure aches and pains because we know it’s all for a greater cause. Even as I write this post, my hands are swollen and ache. Apparently the water I’m…
Winnie the Pooh is Baby’s First Best Friend
Paid support and Disney Baby Winnie the Pooh First Best Friend products provided by Disney. Whenever a family starts preparing to add a new baby into the mix, one of two things usually happens. Either everyone gets crazy and has different ideas about what theme the nursery should be, or it’s a wonderful time of…
Fabulous Big Sister: A Letter to My Daughter
My second baby will be born just about three weeks before my first child’s 8th birthday. Although I didn’t plan to have children so far apart in age, that’s the way life happened for us. The more I think about it, the less worried I get. While some folks might worry that a girl who…