How Mayan Abdominal Massage Helped Me Build My Village
After my first child, which ended up being an emergency c-section after 3 hours of pushing, and an overall pretty traumatic experience, my body felt like it never recovered. As a first time mom, and never really hearing any other woman talk truthfully about what postpartum was really like, I felt awful. Since I found […]
Attempt Flipping a Breech Baby to Avoid a C-Section
**Trigger Warning – Birth Trauma and C-Section Story below** When I found out my first child, my daughter, was a breech baby at 35 weeks pregnant, I obsessively googled everything that I could find to attempt flipping a breech baby to avoid a c-section. I was going to twice per week physical therapy with a […]
Advocating for ourselves with physicians: More #MomRoar
As a mom, one of the most challenging things we can face is advocating for ourselves with physicians when it comes to our health. This also goes with advocating for children – both while pregnant, and afterwards (aka life). When we suspect something is wrong, it can be frustrating and frightening when we feel like […]
Food Elimination for Breastfeeding Moms
As a breastfeeding mother (of 3 kiddos), one of the biggest responsibilities is to ensure that our little ones are getting the best nutrition possible. However, when we suspect our child is sick from a food allergy, it can be a confusing and daunting experience. One way to figure out if your child is allergic […]
Winston B. Simpson, Wonderdog
***Trigger Warning** Loss of Pet**Love of a Pet*** I lost my baby boy. My first love. The dog I had always hoped and dreamed for. My Winnie Boo. My whole life I wanted an English Bulldog. And my whole life, my mom told me, when you grow up and move out, you can get one […]
Breastfeeding with Food Allergies: Tips and Tricks
Wow. This is probably one of the most intense posts that I will write, as I come off of the tail end of my breastfeeding journey, well, forever. I have finally stopped breastfeeding my now 27 month old, 3rd child. I have been ready for a while, and he, well, has not. To be honest, […]
The Best Sourdough Starter Recipe- Dairy Free!
This is by far the best sourdough starter recipe and prep plan that I have found on the internet. I made this for the first time in December of 2018 and it literally lasted in my fridge until this past month (January 2023) when I had to throw it away. I blame it on the […]
Mom Roar + Parenting Tips
Birthday behavior: Mom Roar The other night was my husbands birthday. All I can say is, thank goodness we mostly celebrated it over the weekend and not on the actual Monday that his birthday fell on, because, geez. It. Was. A. Night! Pooks is having a tough time with the transitions right now, totally understandable, […]
New House – Who Dis?
New house, who dis? 9/3/2019 We closed on the house on a Friday and have been busy bees ever since at the house every second trying to clean it up and move stuff over. It’s a very busy month between closing on the new house and closing on the old house with little sis’ wedding […]
Pandemic notes from March 2020
Let’s be honest. Our generation will never forget March 2020. Or, the years after that, for that matter. So, I was looking back through the archives and felt compelled to share my raw, gutteral notes from the thick of it. Below is my pandemic notes from March 2020, right as the world was shutting down […]
