Day 1 So this little nugget arrived in the wee hours of the morning. I try not to call things “the best” because I feel like it minimizes old memories and sets you up to never surpass new ones. But I’m totally fine calling last night the best Saturday night...
I will never forget my son’s first Thanksgiving—not because it was his first holiday, and not because it was the first time most of my extended family met him. It was because I closed out that particular Turkey Day with a 103-degree fever that almost landed me in the emergency...
A couple of years ago, a friend of mine from high school posted this question on Facebook: “When did you really feel like a parent for the first time?” Most people answered with statements like, “As soon as I saw those two line on the pregnancy test” or “When she...
If you look back at pictures of my son in the hospital after his birth, you might notice that he’s swaddled in the standard blue-and-pink-striped baby blanket in almost every shot. That’s because, other than diaper changes, baths, and an occasional loosening of the blanket during nursing sessions, he was...
I’ll go ahead and say it: pumping sucks (pun totally intended, by the way). Compared to the feeling of your little one tucking into you as you marvel over every inch of his or her sweet face, the idea of hooking yourself up to a nicely-packaged milking machine is about...
Being lost in the woods is a scary idea, especially without any supplies. That’s the predicament mother Susan O’Brien found herself in when she lost her way on a trail run in New Zealand’s Rimutaka Forest Park in Wainuiomata. During the night she consumed some of her own breast milk...
If you’re like many breastfeeding moms, you have a huge stash of breast milk in your freezer. To you it’s precious, but to companies like Prolacta Bioscience, Glycom, Medolac, and Evolve Biosystems it’s money in the bank, and they want to pay you for it. What many moms don’t realize...