"The BVTMB is getting real this week about a sometimes taboo, but important topic...S-E-X! Our team is sharing the good, the bad, and the...
I look back at myself, age 35, married and pregnant, with a mixture of humor, compassion, and unabridged mocking. I was so arrogant, and...
Awhile back I posted about the comparison game that all of us moms tend to play. It's so easy to get caught in the...
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...
I just had our second daughter a few months ago, and I have been reminded of just how difficult life with a newborn can...
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...
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...
As I sit here with my son sleeping peacefully in my lap, I find that his first two weeks of life feel like a...
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 I was a new mom, the thing I wanted more than anything else was a working set of opposable thumbs. I wanted to...
What would you do if you had to spend the last month of your pregnancy in the hospital for constant monitoring?
Like, actually living there....
“Almost done!”
That’s what everyone keeps telling me, but pregnancy has a funny way of messing with time. Days seem longer, weeks are anxiously marked...
1 in 4 pregnancies end in a miscarriage. As of a few weeks ago, I can now count myself as part of this statistic.
While...
At my last doctor appointment, my OB asked what my birth plan was. You see, last time I had this lovely, detailed, birth plan...
In + Around Vermont
The UVM Men’s Soccer National Championship Matters to Vermont Families
Late into the evening on Monday, December 16, I lay in bed while my three kids were asleep, watching the Men’s National Collegiate Soccer...
