Some women plan their births like a wedding, imaging the beautiful, spiritual experience years before conception. Like any experience with high expectations, we may...
When you have a premature baby, your life becomes punctuated with numbers.
It took me 4 years to get pregnant. That’s 48 negative pregnancy tests...
It's not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth.
Barbara Katz Rothman
We are so...
{We have partnered together with Northeastern Reproductive Medicine to bring you our Lullaby Wishes: raising infertility awareness series. We love what they are doing...
When you’re pregnant, the sound of a Doppler not picking up a heartbeat is deafening.
That quiet when you’re waiting for the reassuring, rhythmic beating...
There are certainly different paths in life and each day we make decisions that lead us down these varying and winding paths. Sometimes, we...
When you are pregnant it feels like every part of your body aches at some point. With my first pregnancy I struggled with different aches...
Postpartum recovery can be rough. Especially when there are so many demands on your time and energy as a new momma and we are...
I've written before about my struggles with breastfeeding my first daughter, Nora (you can read more about that here). When I found out I...
You are not breathing. You can’t breathe. That is what it feels like 100% of the time when you have a premature baby living...
When it came to finding out the sex of my babies, I found that I enjoyed waiting until birth to find out much more...
I have five children. The oldest four are girls. And we just adopted a little fur-baby (puppy), yesterday, he’s a boy too.
Is a large...
I really do not consider myself a mom yet...more of an incubator. So if you would prefer that I instead stick to my photography...
When I had my son a few years ago, I knew a little about what labor doulas do, but I hadn’t heard of a postpartum...
















