While having a newborn baby in the house is a magical experience in it’s own right, it can also be a challenge, especially for the partner of the new mother. While mom is learning to nurse her baby, recover from birth, and balance her constantly changing sleep patterns, you are often left wondering what your role is in caring for

    My two girls are school-aged now, just starting the 1st and 3rd grade, but the days of breastfeeding and trying to get a good night of sleep are still fresh memories. The way I handled nighttime nursing was drastically different for my girls, and I do my best not to feel guilty about it. After all, we all

Bringing a child into this world is a unique and wonderful experience, unlike any other that you can imagine. It’s not however, something to be entered into quickly or lightly. As a parent in this generation, one thing that I have noticed is how so many parents to be, skip the preparation. I can’t tell you how many friends and

If you’ve just added a new little bod to your happy family or are pregnant with your second, you might be starting to wonder what you’ve let yourself in for. Well, I’m not going to lie, the first few weeks were tough for us, despite having done it all before. Six months into maternity leave for the second time though,

Before I delivered my children, I had an image in my head of what it would be like once I brought them into this world. I would get to share them with my family and friends who came to visit us in the hospital. They would take pictures of the new little bundle of joy and everyone would take turns

It’s August. The freshly accrued school supplies are spread out all over the dining room table. You use the fine point sharpie to tattoo the names of your children all over their supplies, hoping they won’t get lost. It’s time to go to school. It’s time for my four-year-old twins to spread their wings and enter the world of the

Having a caesarean section, or C-section, can be a distressing experience, especially if you weren’t expecting it. Occurring in roughly one in three women, C-sections impact your body’s normal healing process post-partum; you’ll be sore, have stiches to take care of, and a newborn infant who is learning how to nurse. A great thing to remember is that breastfeeding is a dance where both

Do Babies Under 12 months self-wean? You may have heard another mom say that her infant stopped wanting to breastfeed all on his own, or self-weaned, before a year old, but this was likely not the case. Without prompting from his caregivers, it’s unusual for a child to self-wean under 18 months old! So why might some mothers think that their children are self-weaning?

Nursing and the Creepy Crawlies: Breastfeeding Agitation You might recognize it as the “creepy crawlies,” hot sweats, or just a general misery towards nursing when your milk lets down. Your nursing relationship with your older infant or toddler has been going just fine and then suddenly it’s driving you crazy! It’s not that you’re “all touched out,” or exhausted by

Sex after pregnancy may seem difficult initially, both physically and mentally. Many women report complications ranging from low libedo to physical pain months after giving birth. Health care providers instruct new moms to wait anywhere from four to six weeks after having a baby to engage in intercourse, regardless if the delivery was a C-Section or vaginal. However, even when