Maintaining a fit body while you’re pregnant requires dedication. Keeping your body healthy and strong, or even improving your fitness, is important both for you and for your growing baby. One of my favorite places to find pregnancy workout videos is on YouTube, a quick click for prenatal workouts that you can access anytime. Scanning…
Best New Mom Gifts Nobody is Buying
If you’re soon to be holding or attending a baby shower, STOP everything you’re doing and pay close attention. How many gifts have you graciously received that were a million miles off from being something that you’d have chosen for yourself? Ever been in the “Oh gee, thanks!” scenario, smile plastered on while wondering where…
Postpartum Tips for Enjoying Life with a Newborn
Writing about postpartum tips probably doesn’t do much for my Google ranking. It might make you click away before you even get –here–. Nevertheless, it’s important to me to give it to you straight about what’s coming after baby arrives. When I was pregnant, this was the kind of down-low this first-time mama was eager…
The Postpartum Essentials No One is Talking About
Unless you’re among close friends, sharing postpartum experiences is socially taboo. Can you imagine chitchatting with the supermarket cashier about why you purchased Tucks wipes without even having hemorrhoids? I rest my case. Nevertheless, today’s post is meant to shed light on a couple of postpartum essentials that no one else might tell you about….
How to Bless a New Mom
Having a new baby in the house is a blessing, but it’s also hard work round the clock. Although they might not admit it, new moms love pampering and having a friendly face around for those long hours of rocking the baby. If the family already has children, you can more than bet that mama…
Labor-Friendly Natural Massage Oil
Show me a pregnant woman who doesn’t like massage, and I’ll show you a…. wait a minute, I’m not sure what I would show you. Anyway, most pregnant women in labor appreciate the relaxation benefits of a massage given with strong hands and a labor-friendly natural massage oil. Source With our first child, our sweet…
How to Pack a Hospital Bag for Birth
Oh, how the tables have turned for the birth of baby Elijah. This time around, in contrast to Summer Elizabeth’s home water birth, I’ll be giving birth in a public Costa Rican hospital. Dun, dun, dun… Source Although I did have some items packed away in case of an emergency with my homebirth, this time…
Postpartum Healing Pads
Postpartum recovery is a toughie for most of us. Our bodies are recovering from the toughest task that being a woman lends us: birth. If you didn’t think it was difficult, high five to you. For this lady, my baby’s birth was no walk in the park. Following vaginal birth, these postpartum healing pads were…
DIY Post-Partum Healing Remedy: Rosemary Water
I love my midwife. She is such a great lady and a wonderfully wise resource for post-partum advice, encouragement, and relief remedies after giving birth. As I labored through the long morning of Summer Elizabeth’s birth, large pots of boiling rosemary water steeped on the stove nearby. We’d been instructed to pluck off a couple…
Relieve Breast Engorgement Naturally
Are you a breastfeeding mom or hoping to become one soon? If so, read on. Done with babies? Stop here and check out how to cut clutter in your home. No really, stop. Alrighty, now that I’ve got my target audience with me, let’s get personal. Too personal? Nah, I don’t think so. Breastfeeding has…
