Pregnancy

With your first baby, it seems like you receive all these adorable, personalized items to help you celebrate your new arrival, but by the time you're ready for your 2nd, that personal touch has gone and the gift of...

I'm about to have a baby any day now, and my favorite pastime has become obsessing over labor signs and symptoms (or in my case, the lack thereof). The internet is full of helpful tips in this regard: "babies...

There's a story...a long story about why we made the change to using a fertility awareness method, but I'll save that for a cup of coffee on another day.  The short story is this: We'd been married about 4...

Once you hit the "mom of young kids" stage of life, it seems like you're constantly being invited to baby showers. I remember the same thing happening when everyone I knew got married at the same time, and we...

Before kids, I loved power yoga. Not Bikram or anything, but just some good, warm vinyasa flow. I did yoga all throughout my first pregnancy, but completely lost my mojo when I found myself pregnant with my second child...

This is a letter to my third child. Is it a love letter? A complaint? A letter of resignation? I don’t know. I just know that these are the words coming out when I type. Originally I was going...

My last baby turns a year old on Thursday. A quick calculation tells me that of the last 81 months, I have been pregnant or nursing for all but 15. I am still near the starting line of this...

The race to get into some popular Dallas preschools can be competitive and overwhelming.  Many programs operate on a "school year" calendar with registrations for the fall happening around now in February. While some programs require an extensive application process,...

My husband and I recently revealed to our families the gender of our second child, and unlike our first, I felt a mixture of emotions when thinking of a creative way to do so. With our first, we'd come...

Can we talk about the elephant in the room when it comes to pregnancy complications? If you've ever had a complication during pregnancy, you know exactly what I am about to say. It's what all doctors say when something...

I write a lot about the four children I had in a timespan of five years.  But, there is one child that I have never written about.  That's the one I never met.  The one I miscarried four years...

This post has been sponsored by My Car Seat Install and Dallas Moms Blog received a complimentary lesson to write this review. All opinions are 100% our own.  When we were brand new parents (and had zero chill about everything)...