If breastfeeding is so natural, why doesn’t it come naturally? I think about this question daily. I am 5 weeks into breastfeeding my newborn...
There, I said it. I know, I know, I'm supposed to give myself grace, but it's true -- I want to lose my baby...
Just the other day, while I was perusing social media, a friend who is becoming a new mom in the next few weeks asked...
It’s hard to believe that I’m even writing the word, “pandemic.” That’s something I never in my wildest dreams thought I would be living...
I see it all the time on social media: a new mom shares a photo just a few weeks postpartum (especially “influencers”) — standing...
In the past year, my life has been forever, wholly, amazingly changed.
In the past year, I've cried more tears than in the previous ten...
Being pregnant is all about the wait and the anticipation for what is to come. Here I am, pregnant with our third and final...
There is no definitive book on parenting, but if there were, I imagine the front cover image may be of a smiling, little girl...
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten...
Last week, my oldest son turned 21. Gasp! No! It can’t be! It’s hard to believe that my children are, one by one, turning...
A little over four years ago, my husband and I made the early morning drive to the hospital where I would give birth to...
When I decided to breastfeed my first child, I was pretty go-with-the-flow about it. I was going to give it a go and be...
When I started our IVF medications, I held my breath for a rainbow. Through the retrieval and transfer, I am not sure I ever...
In my youthful innocence, I did not know that babies died. I had never dealt with or been impacted by the death of a...
In + Around Indy
See Circle City: Creek Stomping Around Indianapolis
Growing up in the late 1980s and 1990s, I loved playing in my local park's creek. That kind of unstructured play is something I...
