My journey to motherhood started off with all the hope and promise that every woman wishes for. After moving to Seattle in 2007, my...
I told the story here. It was the one about children first conceived in a heart and then in a Petri dish. There was...
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...
When I became pregnant with my second baby, I knew from the start that I wanted a VBAC (Vaginal Birth after Cesarian). After much...
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...
Here we are! It's officially the holiday season! And do you know what that means? I'm taking some time off of stepping on the...
When Robin and I found out we were pregnant with our first daughter, Nora, I could barely contain my excitement. We had been trying...
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...
My husband and I were so excited to bring Maddie to the hot air balloon festival in Stowe, Vermont, when I woke up feeling...
After suffering the loss of our son due to a miscarriage at about 20 weeks, it became very important to my husband and me...
“Doula” is an ancient Greek word meaning “a woman who serves” which is now commonly used to refer to a professional labor support person. ...
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...
While I stood in line at the grocery store, a lady behind me who looked to be in her sixties kept gazing at my...
In the wake of Cheryl Hanna’s death, the beloved Vermont Law School professor who recently took her life due to her private struggle with...

















