Your Lactation Questions Answered! Part 1
I asked for followers to submit there lactation questions for my mom (the lactation specialist) to answer. The previous post is just a general list of This first post is just a general list of resources and recommendations: good websites, things for feeding right after birth, pumping, life span of milk, how much to feed […]
Recommendations From A Lactation Consultant
I’m excited to get to share with you all my secret weapon, my resource for all things baby, my mama! She has been a mom/baby nurse for over 20 years, and has been a licensed lactation consultant for almost a decade. She is a plethora of knowledge in the baby nursing world and has been […]
Griffin’s First Trip: Traveling with a Baby
In October, we took Griffin on his first trip to Colorado. He was about 3 months old. Leading up to it I was a little nervous. I didn’t know how traveling with a baby would be. I didn’t want to be “those people” on the flight with the fussy baby that annoyed everyone. I could only […]
Dark Chocolate Hail Merry Macaroons Copycat Recipe
Hubba Yumma! I love me some Dark Chocolate Hail Merry Macaroons, but at $4-5 for a tiny bag, they don’t quite fit into the new baby budget (the one my husband wishes we had, sorry babe). Especially when I want to by like 10 bags because I could easily devour one bag in one sitting. […]
Nighttime Feeding
Oh hi there little babe. I see you’re awake…again…how nice of you to want to hang out at 1:00am. Holy crap, my baby wants to eat a l l t h e t i m e. It’s crazy. I’m like, ‘how are you hungry again?! I feel like you’re going to burst!’ But nope. He keeps […]
10 Things You Need As a New Mom for Those First Couple of Months
So I realize I’ve only been a mom for a little over a month now, and by no means claim to know what I’m doing (seriously…help me), but here are just a few things I’ve used this last month that have been so helpful. Of course you need a carseat, diapers, a stroller, and other […]
Griffin’s Birth Story
“Oh you will know when you are having a contraction,” they all said to me, “you will definitely know.” Welp, guess what humans of America, I didn’t “definitely know” anything. Thursday, July 14, 2016 4:45 am: I woke up with a strange uncomfortable feeling in my back. My stomach was really tight, and I just thought that the baby was […]
5 Pregnancy Myths, From MY Experience
Before ever getting pregnant, women hear hundreds of things about what the experience will be like, what to expect, problems, things you can’t do, etc. So I already had so many ideas in my head on what to expect, and many of those things turned out to not even be true in my situation. These are […]
Round Ligament Pain and Keniesiology Tape
All in all I’ve had a pretty fantastic pregnancy. So great that I almost feel guilty admitting it when people ask. I have been able to continue working out and doing yoga as much as I want. My doctor told me I was one of his healthiest patients and thus I’ve been able to travel […]
Bonjour France
After Rome, we spent the rest of our two weeks exploring France. We flew first to Toulouse where we stayed with some friends that we met in Bilboa, Spain when traveling last summer. Toulouse is this cute bubbly town in the south of France that actually happens to be France’s fourth-largest city. It is a […]