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It’s OK to Admit You’re Not OK, Mama

To all the other mama bears struggling with postpartum mood disorders, I want to let you know that it really, truly, absolutely is OK to NOT be…

What if we saw children sleeping on us as a positive? What if we viewed the babies who refuse to go down to nap as a sign that we need to slow down?…

After my boys were born, there were appointments. To check their latch. To check their weight. To check their hearing. To check the color of their…

My husband and I have been blessed with six babies over a span of 11 years. Six pregnancies, deliveries and postpartum recoveries. It occurred to me…

The phone rang. I needed to answer it. I needed to step away from my wailing newborn for a moment, just a moment. She was safely tucked into her…

When I left the hospital after my second son was born, I didn’t understand how I had just birthed a 10-pound baby but the scale only showed I was…

I spent my childhood preparing to be “Mommy.” I played house. I practiced fixing boo-boos. Heck, I even gave birth to a Cabbage Patch doll in my…

After publishing an article about breastfeeding, I received a lot of feedback from mothers who were heartbroken. They had tried. They had cried and…

Almost twenty-eight years ago, a few weeks after my first baby passed away (only ten days after his birth) my husband and I went to New Hampshire to…

This is the face of postpartum depression: And this: And this: Postpartum anxiety and depression doesn’t always look like you think it does,…