How to Have a Baby on a Budget

How to Have a Baby on a Budget

It’s no secret that having a baby can be very expensive.  However, I take pride in being a penny pincher and we managed to make it through the first two years of Weston’s life without feeling like a baby was a major financial burden.  On 

10 Ways you Should Prepare for Labor and Delivery

10 Ways you Should Prepare for Labor and Delivery

I’m just a few weeks out from the birth of our second baby.  Unlike a lot of other women who have delivered babies, I can’t wait go through it all again.  My first labor and delivery was far from perfect.  It was painful, hard, and 

Postpartum Essentials – 10 Things You’ll Want to Have After Birth

Postpartum Essentials – 10 Things You’ll Want to Have After Birth

There are more or less 10 weeks left (probably more if he’s anything like his brother) until we meet baby Elliott!  I’m crossing things off my to-do list early this time and I’m getting ready to stock up on my postpartum essentials.  Let me start 

10 Pieces of Advice from a Labor and Delivery Nurse

10 Pieces of Advice from a Labor and Delivery Nurse

As the weeks until baby number two’s due date fly by, I find myself thinking more and more about the big day.  Even though it isn’t my first time, I find myself with as many questions and fears as I had the first time around.  

The Third Trimester To Do List

The Third Trimester To Do List

The Third Trimester To Do List for Expecting Moms I’m just a few short weeks out from my third trimester and I’ve got a running list of “things to do” on my phone.  I like to be over prepared for most things in life, and 

10 Tips to Relieve Stress During Pregnancy

10 Tips to Relieve Stress During Pregnancy

Pregnancy can be a stressful time in any woman’s life.  On top of managing your regular day to day duties, you have to prepare for one of the biggest life changes you’ll ever experience.  Because I’m smack dab in the middle of my second pregnancy, 

40+ Moms Share their First Signs of Pregnancy

40+ Moms Share their First Signs of Pregnancy

As a newly pregnant mama, I know what it’s like to be stuck in the middle of the two week wait and constantly wondering what the first signs of pregnancy are and if you’re experiencing them.  You find yourself Googling “early pregnancy symptoms” or “pregnancy 

15 Pregnancy Hacks that will have you Rockin’ Bump Life

15 Pregnancy Hacks that will have you Rockin’ Bump Life

Pregnancy Tips and Tricks that will Help you Through All Three Trimesters Oh, pregnancy!  It can be such an exciting and wonderful time and it can also be really difficult (just being honest here).  Sometimes, you just need a few pregnancy hacks to make things 

14 Tried and True Ways to Relieve Morning Sickness

14 Tried and True Ways to Relieve Morning Sickness

The first trimester of pregnancy can be rough.  It isn’t long after you see those two pink lines that your excitement about being pregnant can take a back seat to the harsh realities of morning sickness.  Morning sickness looks different for all of us.  It 

How to Cope with your First Trimester Fears

How to Cope with your First Trimester Fears

I’m going to try my damnedest to write the post I was desperately searching for when I first found out I was pregnant.  It wasn’t long after I got a positive pregnancy test that I started obsessively fearing a miscarriage.  I had never been pregnant