I didn't know it was the last time I would pump expressed milk. I didn't know it would be the last time I'd nurse my son. One was my decision and the other was his –– both were after the fact. It's not how I...
A week ago, we broke the seal. No, I'm not talking about giving into peeing during a night of drinking –– a term I distinctly remember learning in a gross bathroom at the SAE house during one of my first weeks at college. We popped...
This post was written for and originally appeared on The Tot. Pregnancy, labor, and delivery and postpartum are equally exciting and overwhelming moments in the lives of new parents, but especially moms. It’s understandable that an inner circle of friends and family want to share in...
Everyone knows that mothers don't have time for themselves. What people are just now discovering is that mothers in quarantine somehow bend the principles of mathematics and have even less time for themselves. Every day is the same struggle of trying to work from home,...
Dear 7 Months Postpartum You, Life feels pretty surreal, huh? People keep referring to the “new normal,” but nothing has felt normal for a really long time. 2019 was anything but, kicking January off with a positive pregnancy test and ending with a 9pm bedtime on...
Somewhere along the line, employers forgot that hiring is a two-way street. At least, that’s what it seems like based on most of the job postings I read. Yes, I always read job postings all the way through, and most of them do a terrible...
It was yesterday. I wore a Hello Kitty face mask and had my ID, credit card, car key and hand sanitizer in my pockets. I performed a cautious and abbreviated version of my tried and true choreography around the store, stopping first for the biggest...
Before I had a child, I swore I would not become the parent who only posted photos of her baby. And, now look at me: This is my life now. Just a bunch of pictures with the same two family members at home or outside (ok,...
These are scary, unprecedented times with the status quo changing dramatically over the course of a 24-hour news cycle. Most of us are (hopefully) upending our lives to accommodate drastic emergency measures to protect and prevent further damage caused by the first pandemic in a...
If the first two months of my baby's life made me feel like a 24/7 Renaissance Faire performer in a PG-13 show that ran every three hours, the second two months have made me feel like a mad scientist. Emphasis on the MAD. I am officially...