I am now officially a mom of seven (one boy, six girls) at 40 years old, and I couldn’t be happier! My little firecracker was due on July 5 and I had her on July 1. I was hoping...
Now, more than ever before and due to COVID-19, families are considering having home births. But wait, before you get all judgy on me, it’s not like the 1800's midwife preconception that so many people have. I had the...
Support for families through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum has been around for pretty much forever.
Modern Doulas are quite a bit different than what you may have loosely learned in history class, seen on Call the Midwife, or even heard...
When you have a baby and are pouring all of your energy into caring for that new little life, you sometimes feel like you might never want to have sex again. Most of us expect that feeling right after...
I was nursing, and I had a 9-month-old, and I was on the pill. So you can understand why two weeks of nausea seemed like it must certainly be an odd strain of the flu. I was navigating being...
One in four is just a statistic until you’re the one.
I never dealt with my miscarriage until many years later. I was trying for my fourth baby when I finally began to mourn the life I carried within me...
My doula once told me this.
“You will miss being pregnant. You will hold your baby in your arms and cry.”
I was rounding the final stretch of my first pregnancy. It was the end of August and the heat added...
As a mother of a toddler, my experience with breastfeeding seems like a blip in the past, but I know how impactful those moments were to me when I was living through them.
Like many moms-to-be, I had every intention...
In many ways, my life thus far has been a tale of two cities. I grew up in the Bronx, surrounded by diversity, yet in my tiny little enclave of a neighborhood, everyone looked like me. We were okay...
The birthing process is intense – no matter which way you go about it. I mean, you’re bringing a human into the world. I had two experiences, one – a Cesarean section and another, a vaginal birth.
These experiences couldn’t...
In + Around Cincinnati
Cincinnati Spring Break Staycation {Oh, the Places We’ll Go}
This year for spring break, we are planning on staying home, minus a weekend at the in-laws' to celebrate Easter. We are looking forward...
