With my 30+ months of breastfeeding experience, I have a few strong opinions for you about nursing bras with little hooking flaps.
I’m So Pregnant – a cartoonist to watch
When she was pregnant with her daughter, she became very sick for the first three months and between throwing up and dealing with inconsiderate people, Line decided to start drawing cartoons to make light of the situation.
The Biggest Baby Shower: A special event for new moms
When I asked my Mom’s Group facilitator — a woman whose own daughters were over 20 years old — how the conversation amongst rookie moms had changed in the 20 years that she’d been hosting support groups for new mothers, she told me that my generation talked a lot more about products. Guilty as charged. […]
16 things to do on pregnancy bedrest
Things to do on pregnancy bed rest that are better than waiting for your partner to get home. Bedrest is a big bummer, but Cara has some great tips!
10 Baby Registry items you can’t find on Amazon
Gulp! My friend Natalie is forcing me to admit that not everything under the sun can be found on Amazon. Natalie Gordon, mom of two young boys and founder of BabyList, shares her favorite registry picks from all over the Internet. At BabyList you can put Any Thing from Any Where on your registry, so why […]
Eye candy: The Belly Painting Project
The woman behind your behind, Sara Blakely, best known for her invention of SPANX, was struck by a creative impulse during her 40th week of pregnancy, which gave birth to The Belly Art Project. This coffee table book, whose sale proceeds will go towards Every Mother Counts, is filled with highly stylized photographs of painted pregnant […]
Can you speak Mommy Lingo? (sponsored)
Thanks to Exeltis for sponsoring today’s post about all the lingo to know when becoming a rookie mom. Whitney’s former boss used to say that becoming a parent is like “joining the most special non-special club there is” — and we totally agree! In fact, even trying to become a parent gains you access to a […]
Questions to ask instead of “Are you pregnant?”
Wondering if someone might be pregnant, please don’t outright ask her. It is so rude to hear “Are you pregnant?” — instead, try one of these 13 more subtle ways to find out!
A Grumpy Girl’s Guide to first trimester exhaustion
Like many women in their first trimester I hadn’t revealed my pregnancy to those around me, so it might have raised suspicion if I began to nap on the lobby couch at work. I just wasn’t ready, or able, to let pregnancy exhaustion take over
Why pre-natal belly dancing just makes sense
Two conversations I had recently made me think that even though belly dancing sounds intimidating and not-my-thing, I might do it if I were pregnant again. Sitting is the new smoking My friend Kelsey, a life coach and acupuncturist, said “Sitting is the new smoking” during a marathon road trip discussion we had about careers, childbirth, relationships, […]
How (and When) to choose a great-fitting maternity and nursing bra
At the recent ABC Kids Expo in Las Vegas, Whitney and I got to test out a bunch of cool new products for babies and parents. One of the most informative and fun things we did was to attend a tutorial session put on by the lovely women of Cake Maternity Lingerie, about how to […]
5 Maternity clothing items I love right now
This is my third time doing this pregnancy thing, and boy, am I sick of seeing my old maternity clothes come back out of that box yet again. Here are some new pieces I picked up this time around that I have been wearing like crazy. I thought I should share my hard-won findings with all […]