Postpartum Care Package (the perfect gifts for a new mom)
There is absolutely nothing like bringing a new baby home. The early days are often filled with a balance of …
Baby Having
When Should You Buy Baby Stuff?
When should you start buying baby stuff? This is literally the question on every pregnant female’s mind once she finds …
Postpartum Care Kit Checklist (all the postpartum essentials)
I wrote out this postpartum recovery checklist after my FIRST baby, knowing I’d want to be better prepared the 2nd time around
And yet, the 2nd time around I still showed up at the hospital with a half packed labor bag, and a mostly ignored postpartum recovery checklist.
Bringing Baby Home – Enjoying the First Week With a Newborn
The birth of a baby is life changing; the sort of event that will always teach us new things. But the birth of my second baby showed me something totally unexpected – it showed me how badly I missed out on ENJOYING the precious moments of the first week at home with me first baby.
The first week with baby (or the first month, even) is a special and unique time… and there’s truly no way to be fully prepared for it.
How to Pee Postpartum (Without Crying)
If you’ve come upon this post in a desperate search (painful urination postpartum perhaps?) well, I’m guessing it’s not all fun and games for you either.
I swore that when I was all recovered and back at blogging, I would write the helpful postpartum stuff I couldn’t find online anywhere while I was healing and googling.
Googling things like how to pee postpartum without crying (or feeling like you’d rather give birth all over again).
Postpartum Sitz Baths: 6 Reasons Why You Should (plus 7 tips for how to do it)
Congratulations on your baby! …and sorry that your ‘downstairs’ is a terrible disaster. (Don’t worry – it heals.) But you need to know about sitz baths postpartum. One of the very best things I did postpartum – once I was home from the hospital – was taking a sitz bath twice per day.
The “Ring Of Fire” in Childbirth – What I Wish I’d Known
I think I was maybe 16 the first time I heard someone describe the “ring of fire” in childbirth. She …
The one thing I wish someone had told me about the pain of childbirth
Waiting to go into labor with your first baby can be downright terrifying.
You have no real idea what to expect, but you’ve heard about 462 birth stories that all have one general theme – PAIN.
8 Things That Totally Shocked Me About Postpartum Recovery
Do not read this if you are easily disgusted, or if you are going to comment here and tell me how gross it is that I wrote about this stuff, or that I have no filter. Do not read this if you are a dude, unless you are married to a very pregnant lady and want to be supportive. But DO read this if you are pregnant, (maybe especially if you are pregnant for the first time).
The BEST Postpartum Advice, from moms who’ve been there (and done that)
It’s something that you really can’t comprehend until you’ve done it. And even then, when you’ve done it, postpartum still seems like a hazy + baffling time.
And shocking.
The postpartum experience is shocking, to say the least.