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…

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.

Growing a human is hard work! The first trimester can be overwhelming and stressful, not to mention all the pregnancy symptoms you may start to feel -- hello nausea and fatigue.

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.