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35 Unique Items for Babies That Might Seem Crazy…But Are So Worth It!
Take it from your fellow mamas, these unique items are worth every cent you pay and will crush any stink eye you receive when discussing or buying them. In no particular order, here are some wacky, I...
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Four Reasons to Suspect Your Child is Tongue or Lip Tied
‘ Tongue-tie…. lip-tie…. say whaaauh….?? If you’re anything like me, you’ve never heard of ties. My exposure to them wasn’t pleasant but it didn’t have to be an issue. Our little Annie went through...
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Why I Stopped Breastfeeding
Three weeks after my middle son was born my husband found me sitting on the shower floor crying and slightly hyperventilating. My boobs were sore. And tired. For the last three weeks I either had a...
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Building A Freezer Stash of Breastmilk While on Maternity Leave
When I went back to work, I had stashed about 300 ounces of breastmilk in my freezer. Admittedly, that’s way more than the average mama needs… but I tend to be an overachiever. 😉 In all seriousness,...
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The First Year is the Hardest…
The first year is the hardest, not sure if any other mamas can relate, but for me the first year was the hardest year of my life. I am a breastfeeding, co-sleeping, and attachment parent. So my babies...
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Clogged Milk Duct…or Cancer?
A warning from one young mama battling cancer to help prevent other mamas from this fight. Twelve months ago, I gave birth to my second daughter, and immediately after she was born I knew something...
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I Share My Bed with My Kids
Before I became a parent, my sister and a few close friends of ours had already become parents so we were able to observe and let’s be honest, do what we all shouldn’t do; judge. Judge their parenting...
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What I Learned During my First Year as a Parent
When you become pregnant, many well intentioned people will want to give you advice. It might get annoying. Honestly you will get so much advice that most of it will go in one ear and out the other....
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True Confessions from a Pumping Mom
When you collectively spend weeks of your life pumping breast milk for your child, there are a lot of thoughts and incidences that happen along the way. I actually saw a post the other day from a girl...
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We Weren’t Ready to Wean…But Cancer Told Us Otherwise
I breastfed both of my daughters, my first daughter latched super easy and nursed both sides every feeding. Never burped, never spit up. Happy happy eater…happy happy mama. Then my second daughter was...
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Breastfeeding a Toddler – How Un-American
Nursing a newborn baby is full of beautiful moments. You finally get to meet that little nugget who had been inhabiting your insides and then continue to nourish them. Did you know that about 79% of...
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The Real Cost of Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding. Yes I did it, but I’m going to be completely honest here — there’s a cost of breastfeeding. I don’t really like doing it. Dare I say, I kind of hated it. That being said, I still...
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Fed Is Best
This blog doesn’t serve to diminish breastfeeding but rather to share other options out there because when it comes to our children, fed is best. Two years ago, I gave birth to my first child, Henley....
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An Emotional Switch from Nursing to Exclusive Pumping
When it comes to breastfeeding, it’s not always black and white. There’s a little breastfeeding sister called pumping that I don’t think gets enough attention, and I’m not just talking about the...
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Why I Chose To Formula Feed
Ok friends, here we go. The big breast – well in my case now very small – debate. I actually don’t want to debate any of you, I am on 4 hours of sleep and staring down the barrel of a mile long to-do...
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Is There Such a Thing as Mom Time With Littles?
Where does the time go? Not only are my kids born and two seconds later they are suddenly doing the baby drunk walk, but then my oldest is at pre-school. They say “the days are long, but the years are...
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The Sibling Size Complex: A Big Girl And A Small Boy
I have two kids. One eats everything and the other eats nothing. One is in the 80th percentile and the other is in the 5th percentile. One is 3.5 and the other is 1.5. One is a boy and one is a...
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Lessons in Honor of Breast Cancer Awareness
Today started with the normal routine: wake up, take the kid to daycare, start work, yada yada. Most of my team was out of the office, it was pretty quiet, and I felt like I actually had control of my...
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Winter Is Coming! And Virus After Virus. What Do Moms Do?
As moms, I wonder how we survive sick season. I mean we already have treasured, minimal, light sleep…So add in a sick kid or two, then what? When kids are sick we can pretty much expect to skip...
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I Wanted a Natural Birth
When I was pregnant with my first baby I really, really, really wanted a natural birth. I had it all planned out. I was going to go to a local birthing center where their focus was on natural births...
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