If you’re a mother, you may completely relate to the concept of being touched out. In fact, tell me if the following has ever happened to you … It’s late at night, you’re finally tucked in your bed, away from the kids, the blissful comfort of the blanket wrapped just perfectly around your shoulders. You’re…
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Do You Have Lower Self-Esteem Since Becoming a Mom?
Do you ever feel like you have lower self-esteem after becoming a mom? Let’s assess–tell me if you have had any of the following thoughts recently: I’m not good enough. None of my clothes ever look right. I’m not a very good mom. I’m not as organized as the other moms. I used to know…
What is a Baby Box and Could It Help Your Baby?
If you haven’t heard of a baby box yet, allow me to assure you that it’s not some new-fangled program to deliver babies in boxes. What baby boxes are, however, are simple ways to help a lot of babies. And that’s definitely worth learning about. Baby boxes are a long-held tradition in other countries, such…
One Doctor’s Unusual Hope To Cure SIDS
SIDS is the most common cause of infant death, outside of infants born with birth defects or as a result of complications from prematurity. The condition, which includes any infant death between one month and 12 months of age that can not be explained after a medical investigation, is one that continues to baffle the…
Dear Middle Child, I See You
From the moment you were born, you were born not just to yourself, but to the world as a sibling. And since that moment, I know you’ve lived under your sister’s shadow, the one who always gives in, the one who quietly fades back under the bossy big sister, the one who slips into the…
This is Two: A Mom’s Letter to Her Little Girl
I look at you through eyes of disbelief, my arms still heavy with the memory of your baby weight against me. I watch you, thinking of how smart you are, fully realizing that you know exactly what is going on — and you’re playing your mom and dad like a baby-sized fiddle. I feel bewildered, like the past…
To The Mom Whose Due Date Will Never Come
As I stir my mug of hot tea and curl up in front of the fire this holiday season, I will watch my children play with their new gifts and I will look over at my husband and smile over their heads, our faces warm from the heat and our hearts full from days spent with…
Shifting Gears
After rocking the baby to sleep, I read my three-year-old a story and give her a kiss on the forehead. “Sweet dreams,” I tell her, tucking her in for her afternoon nap. “Mommy has to go to sleep now.” I brush my teeth, pull on some pajamas and crawl into bed myself. Listening one last…
Can Someone Please Explain How Other Moms Have So Much Energy?
Do you ever look at the lives of other mothers and wonder how on earth they manage to pull off pool days and park visits and date nights and dinner parties and all the fun things, while also dressed to the nines and having (gasp) hair that is actually styled? Some days it feels like I’m…
I Finally See Myself The Way My Daughter Sees Me
I remember seeing her, body bent over, towel-drying her hair. The dark strands shaking loose, wet and free. She’d get ready in the bathroom and I would watch her in the way that little girls love to watch their mamas. I was fascinated by the shape of her; content just to stand and study her…