When you’re pregnant, it can be difficult to stick to a safe & healthy plan at events, especially BBQs—but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy yourself and the food during this classic American tradition.  Take out the guesswork and use my cheat sheet guide below help navigate your Independence Day festivities.… Read the rest

The Today Show recently did a piece on a new trend in the maternity world: baby showers for grandmothers. As soon as I read the quote “(But) it’s a fun stage of life and I think all stages of life you need to celebrate, especially when there’s a birth of a child,” I was hooked.… Read the rest

As any nursing/pumping mother can attest, the sheer amount of time that one spends attached to a breast pump in the early months of a baby’s life is simply astronomical.

Since spare time is just not something I have oodles of, I’m always looking for ways to maximize every minute. … Read the rest

If you’ve seen the photos and read the news from the Philippines, I’m sure your heart is breaking for all of the victims of this horrible storm just as mine is. As a mother, I can’t imagine how it would be to lose your home and loved ones and have to worry about how you will feed your children, and the people of the Philippines have been in our thoughts since the typhoon.… Read the rest

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Believe me, I am not a candy hating celery crunching mama-to-be (although sometimes I wish I was!). Quite the opposite in fact.  While I like to crunch a few celery sticks along with the old buffalo wings I so often crave these days, I can be quite candy crazed.… Read the rest