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...
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...
The First Hour after Birth: A Baby’s 9 Instinctive Stages
So much effort is devoted to preparing for labor and birth throughout pregnancy, but what...
Like a growing number of Vermonters, my husband and I decided to wait to have a baby. I was nearing my mid-thirties when we...
Most expecting mothers have certain visions, attachments, and expectations around their plans for birthing and breastfeeding. Simultaneously, we bear in mind things may not...
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...
When Ang and I decided to have kids, we landed quickly at the decision to purchase anonymous donor sperm through a sperm bank.
The process,...
Please talk to your medical provider before exercising after having a baby.
By now you are (somewhat) used to your new little one and are...
April is host to numerous important awareness campaigns- autism, cancer control, child abuse prevention, and frogs to name a few. It is also National...
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...
We all know that pregnancy and the postpartum period can be difficult for moms. Our bodies go through intense changes and sometimes (unfortunately) traumatic...
Nobody talks about the postpartum body.
There is plenty of information about what to expect during pregnancy. Then all the information jumps ahead to what...
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...
So I'm a little behind in my Belly Chronicles series (as I am currently 31 weeks pregnant), but I thought I would go back...
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...
