One Thing I Want my Soon-to-be-Mom Friends to Know: You won’t recognize yourself at first. Your body, your emotions, your reactions, even your hair and skin might be different. Or, you might feel like you truly recognize yourself for the first time ever. You’ll feel more like yourself than ever before. But either way, here’s what I can guarantee: you
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If you’ve been on TikTok recently, you have probably heard about Lucky Girl Syndrome. The concept is this: by saying that you are always lucky, or that everything always works out for you, things will start always working out for you. In other words, you manifest the good luck in your life. Now, I’m new to the manifestation world, so
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We’re all guilty of it (and if you’re not, maybe keep scrolling and keep that to yourself). Taking a photo of our kids, our house, our perfect Christmas tree – and cropping out the basket of laundry, the spilled juice on the table, or the ornaments your toddler has already pulled off and dropped on the floor. Now there’s no
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Breastfeeding, like so much else in the world of mothering, has often felt to me like more of a call for mothers to martyr themselves for the benefit of their babies, rather than a choice. “Breast is best” is the saying I have had hammered into my head since becoming a mom. When it comes to breastfeeding, what I want
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A How-To Guide for Moms, Holiday Edition I find myself walking the tightrope this holiday season. On one side of the tightrope is stress: I am stretched thin. My wallet, and calendar, are stretched thin. We are dodging the flu, RSV, and HFM left and right. Sometimes I just want this season to be over so we can all go
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It’s the most… erm. Wonderful time of the year? Listen, I love the holiday season. The twinkling of lights, the coziness of a crackling fire, the look of wonder (and a little entitlement) in our children’s eyes as they gaze upon the presents under the tree. It’s magic. MAGIC! But, if I’m being honest, the holiday season is NOT the
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Every year in October it starts to happen: trees pop up in the middle of department stores, antlers protrude from car windows, and as the air turns crisp, the sounds of Mariah Carey float on the breeze. It’s coming. Christmas. While part of me delights in these signs of the season, as so many do, the other part of me
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“Moms are superheroes!” no, we’re not. We just don’t have any other options. If not us, who? As the resident chef, maid, chauffeur, accountant, nurse, secretary, and milk maid of my household, I’m exhausted. I can’t be the only one thinking “Did moms always have to do this much? How did the human race survive?”, because it’s ROUGH out there.
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If you haven’t joined your local Buy Nothing group on Facebook yet, here’s why you NEED to. (Especially if you are a mom.) But first, what is a Buy Nothing group? Buy Nothing groups are local Facebook groups that allow members to post stuff they want to get rid of (usually labeled “GIFT” in the post), or items they would
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If mental health is so important in motherhood (and spoiler alert: it is), then therapy needs to be accessible. Really, therapy needs to be more accessible, period. But in a country where maternal care is rapidly declining, prioritizing the accessibility of therapy for mothers is essential. We tell moms they don’t have to do it on their own. We say
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