My husband and I were so excited to bring Maddie to the hot air balloon festival in Stowe, Vermont, when I woke up feeling...
Are you hoping for an “on-time” arrival?
As a midwife and new mother, I knew the emotional dangers of becoming attached to my due date...
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Sometimes, it doesn’t just take a village to raise a...
I let my husband read the pregnancy test.
I knew the results when I saw the corner of his mouth twitch.
The solar eclipse was a...
Postpartum recovery can be rough. Especially when there are so many demands on your time and energy as a new momma and we are...
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,...
I’ve always defined the word “scar” as the visible mark left by a wound or injury. But the dictionary defines it as “the mark...
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...
Reaching the third trimester of pregnancy is exciting and possibly daunting as everyone has tips about labor. We are no different. As moms, 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...
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...
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 it came to finding out the sex of my babies, I found that I enjoyed waiting until birth to find out much more...
Ectopic pregnancy is horrible. It’s every mother’s worst nightmare.
Ectopic pregnancy occurs when the fertilized egg implants outside of the uterus, usually in a fallopian...

















