• Creating Your Amazon Baby Registry

    October 5, 2024

    You’re baby will be here soon, so it’s time to stock up on everything you will need. There are a number of sites and stores you can use to create your baby registry, but my personal favorite is Amazon. I used Amazon to create my entire baby registry! This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Benefits of Amazon Baby Registry I decided to register only on Amazon because it was so easy to manage everything all in one place. You can find nearly everything on Amazon. It made it easy on me and…

  • How to Reconnect with Your Partner Postpartum

    September 6, 2024

    Bringing home a new baby is both exciting and stressful. You are sleep deprived, newly postpartum, and aching from labor and delivery. Now that you are home, you and your partner have to navigate how to take care of your newborn together. This period is usually described as the “roommate” period. You and your partner are just trying to survive day by day. You can end up missing each other and your relationship during this time as you try to reconnect postpartum. Here are some ways you can reconnect with your partner postpartum. Curious about the postpartum recovery period? Learn…

  • Postpartum Recovery Timeline

    August 20, 2024

    Whether you've had a C-section or a vaginal birth, postpartum recovery can be an extremely challenging time. Your body is recovery from a massive trauma, not to mention the monumental shift in hormones that affects your mood, body temperature, hair, and milk production. The recovery time varies dramatically from 6 weeks to 6 months.

  • How My Doula Supported Me from Pregnancy to Delivery

    July 24, 2024

    Like many birth stories mine did not go as planned. For starters I ended up having preeclampsia which came on very suddenly. Although this was a scary thing to deal with at the time, my doula helped me and my husband immensely through the entire labor and delivery. I'm so thankful we hired her to be at our side through every weird pregnancy question to the exhausting labor and delivery.

  • My Honest Review of the Elvie Stride

    July 7, 2024

    The Elvie Stride is a wearable breast pump. This is what attracted me to this product in the first place. I did a lot of research trying to determine what would be the best breast pump as a first time mom. It was important to me to be able to still be active and pump.