When Maggie and Jessi met 18 years ago, in 1993, at high school freshman orientation they never knew the path their friendship would take....
You know the feeling: You’re 5 weeks, 6 days postpartum, and you’re heading into your OB in the morning for the all-clear appointment. Your...
I still get goose bumps as I walk down the halls to the McClure Birthing Unit at FAHC, some 5 years later. This time...
I am not a healthcare professional or lactation consultant, nor do I have a lot of experience with breastfeeding. I'm a first time mom...
Don't you want another one?
Sometime around MJ's first birthday people starting asking us this. At that time we weren't ready, we'd had a rough...
In a recent article written by the New York Times on the role of midwives in American births, Mary Lawlor, a Vermont CPM and...
I’ve always defined the word “scar” as the visible mark left by a wound or injury. But the dictionary defines it as “the mark...
BurlingtonVT Moms Blog is partnering with Vermont Midwives Association to bring you our latest series titled “How I Became a Mother” in honor of Mother’s...
Here's the deal: I wanted boys.
Let me backtrack a bit. I may be a new writer for the BTV Moms Blog, but I am...
When Robin and I found out we were pregnant with our first daughter, Nora, I could barely contain my excitement. We had been trying...
BurlingtonVT Moms Blog is partnering with Northeastern Reproductive Medicine to bring you our latest series titled “Lullaby Wishes: raising infertility awareness." 1 in 8 couples suffer from infertility...
I’m 33 weeks pregnant and recently was having signs of early labor, after an afternoon being monitored, they determined baby was staying put for...
BurlingtonVT Moms Blog is partnering with Northeastern Reproductive Medicine to bring you our latest series titled “Lullaby Wishes: raising infertility awareness.” 1 in 8 couples suffer from infertility...
Most expecting mothers have certain visions, attachments, and expectations around their plans for birthing and breastfeeding. Simultaneously, we bear in mind things may not...
In + Around Vermont
Winter in Vermont
It is late fall and the temperature drops just enough for the precipitation to turn from pestery rain into beautiful, soft, magical snowflakes and...
