(and all of my recommendations!) Amazon Affiliate Disclaimer: If you purchase from any of the links on my site, I may receive a small payment at no extra charge to you. Becoming a new mom is chaos. We buy and receive so much stuff and yet SOMEHOW, things are missed. We end up with soContinue reading “Top 5 Baby Gifts for New Moms”
Category Archives: Pregnancy
Having a Baby During a Pandemic
PREGNANCY Eight months ago, I found out I was pregnant. I had just finished teaching my PalFish students in China (who were ironically taking more classes because they were being impacted by COVID-19 and schools had begun to close). I was about to get my 1 and 2 year olds ready for daycare before IContinue reading “Having a Baby During a Pandemic”
My Beautiful Rainbow
Disclaimer: Trigger Warning Since becoming pregnant and becoming a mama, I’ve learned about many different pregnancy “complications,” and things that can happen to your body or your baby during pregnancy. It’s funny how until you experience something, no matter how much you may think you know about a topic, you realize you have so muchContinue reading “My Beautiful Rainbow”
My Experience with a Two Vessel Umbilical Cord and Having my Daughter Tested for Chromosomal Abnormalities
Disclaimer: Trigger Warning Hey Mamas! Jess here and I’m ready to begin sharing some of what made for the most challenging pregnancy and difficult few months of my life. Bare with me, this is written up in a bit of diary form as I’ve put together the pieces of what I’ve written over the pastContinue reading “My Experience with a Two Vessel Umbilical Cord and Having my Daughter Tested for Chromosomal Abnormalities”
Leila’s Birth Story: A VBAC Birth Story in the Middle of a Pandemic
“She’s still breech.” These were the only words I heard the morning of my scheduled external cephalic version or ecv. “You’ve experienced this before, you know what to expect,” I told myself. And I did which was sort of the terrifying part. My second son just 22 months prior was also breech and after aContinue reading “Leila’s Birth Story: A VBAC Birth Story in the Middle of a Pandemic”
Confessions of a Second Time Mama
Becoming a mama for the second time, I think in some ways can be scarier than the first. How will I juggle two babies? How will I manage two schedules? Will I love this baby as much? So many feelings come up during pregnancy (thank you, hormones!) knowing that our lives are about to changeContinue reading “Confessions of a Second Time Mama”
Work at Home Chaos 