Eat What Feels Good Postpartum is an online guide for the first 3 months after giving birth, sometimes called the fourth trimester. This is the time period when healing from pregnancy and birth is most important, as it sets the tone for hormonal health for years and years to come.Continue Reading
It wasn’t *exactly* what I expected, and I’m still processing it. I initially sought out insight from a team of psychologists because I was accumulating symptoms that concerned me. I noticed anxiety during my last 2 pregnancies, but after my son was born 14 months ago, I couldn’t shake theContinue Reading
If you are interested in planning a tropical resort vacation with children, this post is for you. Of course, you can go to this resort without children, but this resort chain has the best offerings for little ones that I’ve seen! For context, at the time of this vacation IContinue Reading
I am a grown woman person. I think of myself as generally capable and responsible, but I do get help with the REAL scary stuff like taxes and bills and dishes (Thank you, husband). In my adulthood, I have noticed that I may have tendencies towards deficits in attention. IContinue Reading
Parenting in a pandemic is hard- I think that is a safe statement to make. We are all in the same storm- though we each have different boats. We have different challenges based on stages of life, employment status, job type, family availability, overall health and baseline mental state. ThisContinue Reading
Butterscotch Apple Lactation Bites I might still do some fine-tuning on this flavor, but they’re still delicious! I used a full cup of finely chopped freeze-dried apples, but between the butterscotch chips and the nut butter, the apple isn’t as pronounced as I’d like it to be. I’ll update thisContinue Reading
Raspberry Mocha Lactation Bites Hear me out. My all-time favorite coffee drink is the signature latte from a small chain in Delaware called Brew Haha, and it’s raspberry mocha flavored. If this sounds like a big YES to you, grab yourself some espresso chocolate chips and make these as-is (and PLEASEContinue Reading
He’s here! I want to share my third birth story. It was an entirely different experience from my first two births, just proving further that these things can’t really be predicted or fully planned for! My water broke at 2:35 am, while I was sleeping. I thought I was peeingContinue Reading
How to Stay on Track with Healthy Eating You have learned some important new information about healthy eating. You have tried to stop demonizing fat. You have learned to focus on real, whole foods instead of packaged ones. You have read ingredient labels until they were blurry. You were doingContinue Reading
What do we feed our kids?!? The short answer is: however much “real food” they are willing to eat, plus concessions made to make sure they’re fed. At the bottom of this post, I shared some pictures of common school lunches we send to daycare for our 2 and 4Continue Reading