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Anyone else get super anxious about germs during the sick season? Like you want to follow your babies around with disinfectant wipes… And the COVID-19 virus is also freaking me out a WEE lil bit. So we’re digging the days in our homemade sandbox. (You see the pun there?) So all sick season, I start […] Read more…
We have had a recent addition to our little family. <3 And bringing this little man into the world was very different from what we had originally planned. James Arthur Simmons was born at home on December 22, 2018, 11:14 PM. Weighing 7 lbs 8 oz and crying so hard from being born with his […] Read more…
I never printed off or wrote down affirmations for my first home birth with Annabelle, and my doula this time around challenged me to create some of my own. I didn’t know how powerful this could be in preparing me for birth. Though I’ve given birth before. Unmedicated. At home. I was definitely less prepared […] Read more…
Here is the ultimate list of gifts you could send or get a postpartum mother that would make her life a WHOLE lot easier when that little sweet baby comes into the world. These gifts revolve around helping milk supply stay healthy and strong, keeping mama fed and hydrated, giving the gift of a quick […] Read more…
These last couple of months I’ve been trying to prepare for our baby #2 by creating yummy, healthy meals that would freeze well and be easily thawed and eaten or just thawed and thrown in the crock pot or oven and eaten. It’s tough to keep things quick, creative, delicious and healthy! Especially when you’re […] Read more…
My initial thought when brainstorming this article was to show my readers and whoever may come across this post how affordable a home birth or birth center birth was compared to birth at a hospital. But, after doing research, that really isn’t the case for everyone, and in a lot of instances, a home birth […] Read more…
Here are some tried and true tips from a home birth mama about getting through an unmedicated birth with ease. *this post contains affiliate links, clicking through helps support this blog, with no added cost to you! I would never recommend something I’ve never tried or loved. Thank you!* I’ve been reading through Ina May’s […] Read more…
Is a natural birth as painful as women have said? Is it euphoric like other women have said? What’s the truth and what techniques are there to get through without medication? *this post contains affiliate links, clicking through helps support this blog, with no added cost to you! Thank you!* I’m going to start by […] Read more…
When looking for our first baby’s perfect name I wanted it to be unique, I wanted it to be a name that wasn’t going to be common for all the other baby girls being born the same year as she was! *this post contains affiliate links, clicking through helps support this blog, with no added […] Read more…
The first-trimester pregnancy nausea is a pain, and quite frankly, just annoying. *this post contains affiliate links, clicking through helps support this blog, with no added cost to you! Thank you!* After about the sixth week it just sets in like a little-personalized rain cloud ready to hover over you for a good couple months… […] Read more…