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7 Lessons I Learned from my Lactation Consultant

7 Lessons I Learned from my Lactation Consultant

I’m a few months in to my second breastfeeding journey, and I’d like to take a minute to reiterate that breastfeeding is hard.  You have to worry about latching, positioning, engorgement, managing your milk supply, making sure your baby is getting enough, and so on 

8 Tips to Take your House from Messy to Manageable

8 Tips to Take your House from Messy to Manageable

How to Tidy your Messy House Having a messy house can be extremely overwhelming. It can impact many different areas of your life. It can impact your physical and mental health, and can really make you feel uncomfortable in your own home. But, messes happen, 

DIY Stretch Mark Cream for Pregnant Moms

DIY Stretch Mark Cream for Pregnant Moms

How to Make Effective Stretch Mark Cream at Home Making a DIY stretch mark cream is easier than you think!  And making it yourself ensures you’re using all natural products with no added ingredients.  You’ll know exactly what you’re putting on your skin as your 

15 Affirmations for Pregnancy After Loss

15 Affirmations for Pregnancy After Loss

Positive Mantras to Help you Survive Pregnancy After Loss Pregnancy after loss is unbelievably hard.  It’s mentally, emotionally, and physically exhausting.  It can be so easy for your thoughts and your mind to go to a dark and scary place.  One way to find strength 

A Complete Checklist of Unusual Early Pregnancy Symptoms

A Complete Checklist of Unusual Early Pregnancy Symptoms

100+ Women Share their Weird Early Pregnancy Symptoms you May not Have Heard of Am I pregnant?  This question has the power to completely control your thoughts.  Maybe you’re in the two week wait, dying to take a pregnancy test.  Maybe you’re experiencing strange symptoms 

7 Gift Ideas for Someone who had a Miscarriage

7 Gift Ideas for Someone who had a Miscarriage

What to Get Someone who is Experiencing Pregnancy Loss Going through a miscarriage is such an indescribable loss.  It’s a loss that no parent should have to suffer.  Unfortunately, it happens all too frequently. If someone you love has recently experienced this incredible loss, you 

How to Prepare your Body (and Mind) for Birth

How to Prepare your Body (and Mind) for Birth

Did you know there are easy, natural ways to prepare your body and mind for birth?  Yes, it’s true, labor happens on its own, when your baby and body are ready.  While these things won’t induce labor, but they will prep your body for labor, 

The Best Postnatal Vitamins for Breastfeeding Moms

The Best Postnatal Vitamins for Breastfeeding Moms

Just because you’ve already given birth doesn’t mean you should stop your daily vitamin intake.  While prenatal vitamins were crucial during pregnancy, postnatal vitamins are a must have after birth, especially if you’re breastfeeding.  Vitamins are a postpartum essential that you don’t want to skip. 

Midwives Brew – How to Make it, Does it Work, and Stories from Real Moms

Midwives Brew – How to Make it, Does it Work, and Stories from Real Moms

How to Naturally Induce Labor with Midwives Brew There’s nothing quite like the end of pregnancy.  You wake up every morning thinking, “is today the day?”  You find yourself researching ways to induce labor at home and are ready to try anything to kickstart those 

New Mom Care Package Ideas She’ll Actually Use

New Mom Care Package Ideas She’ll Actually Use

The Best Gift Ideas for a New Mom Care Package Are you looking for a way to treat the new mom in your life?  Try making a new mom care package to help lighten the load in those first few weeks of motherhood.  These practical