With my first born I had a lot of trouble breastfeeding. I mean A LOT. It felt like we had all the problems.  I had...
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...
WhenI first found out I was pregnant again, I was thrilled. We’d just been through a loss of a pregnancy in January and I...
Giving birth is a truly beautiful and wonderful experience. But let me be honest...one of the things that I didn't really like was the...
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...
Send yourself some love...because life is too damn short to worry about your cellulite! My relationship with my thighs has always been rocky. Even when my...
Do you find it difficult to incorporate exercise into your daily routine? Do you feel only motivated when in the gym or group fitness classes? Do...
Our bodies are meant for this. This innocent-sounding phrase is everywhere. You read it in novels. You hear the instructor in childbirth class repeat it...
Most expecting mothers have certain visions, attachments, and expectations around their plans for birthing and breastfeeding. Simultaneously, we bear in mind things may not...
Confession time: I'm not one of those mommas that feels immediately connected to her baby upon finding out she is pregnant. I'm excited, for sure,...
My pregnancy with my first-born was organized, bullet journaled, and crafted to the extreme. You might say that it was “Pinterest-perfect.” This time around,...
Hello to all of the Burlington VT Moms Blog readers! I am the nurse manager of the mother/baby unit at Fletcher Allen Health Care in...

A Hopeful Story

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I told the story here.  It was the one about children first conceived in a heart and then in a Petri dish. There was...
Two years ago, I had a miscarriage. I was about nine weeks into the first trimester, feeling terribly sick until one day I woke...

In + Around Vermont

Winter in Vermont

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It is late fall and the temperature drops just enough for the precipitation to turn from pestery rain into beautiful, soft, magical snowflakes and...