This past week Arabella had her four month check-up, complete with three shots. At her two month appointment, I was pleasantly surprised at how few tears were shed after she received her vaccinations. However, fast forward a couple months and she was like a different baby, I didn’t think the screams and tears were ever…
Thanksgiving is tomorrow. If they haven’t already, as soon as the turkey is cleaned from the table, most parents will begin thinking about the holidays Christmas (I’m not going to dance around the holiday that I celebrate…but that’s for a different post..) fast approaching; thoughts of buying gifts, trimming the tree, travels, school vacation, and the Elf…
Maybe it’s just because I’m a new mom, but the pressure to breast feed seems to be at an all-time high. I always knew I wanted to at least try breast feeding but nothing could have prepared me for how every single nurse, doctor, friend, stranger, colleague, article, etc was going to INSIST that I…
Rewind two days, it’s 4 am and baby girl has woken up for a feeding. During these hours, my husband and I patter around the house, one making a bottle and one changing the babe; we hardly speak two words to eachother, as we’re both too exhausted. Generally, it’s a cordial “I’ll start warming the…
