My kids are 4 and 3-years-old. And, for the most part, I feel like I’m a hitting a sweet spot in parenting. Everyone pees and poops in the toilet, they usually sleep through the night, and sometimes I can let them use real dishes. Today I even took a shower and no one died or…
You’re pregnant with your first and checking out all your options. Or it’s your second or third baby, and you’re wanting a different experience than the last time around. Maybe no epidural, definitely not that awful Pitocin. Where do you start, and how do you get the experience you’re looking for? A lot of things…
My son turns five this August. This thought makes my hands a little clammy and my eyes sad. How did we get here so fast? Where is my baby? School is coming – fast. For several reasons, we’ll most likely be homeschooling and part-time enrolling in a school in our neighborhood. This means I have…
Lindsey is a new writer for Baby and Blog, specializing in natural birth. See her previous articles here, and look out for more content from her in the coming weeks ? Tell us about yourself. L: I live in Chicago. I am a stay-at-home-mom who works a little bit. I’m a birth doula, and I…
“Remember this, for it is as true as true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceri, elephants, moose, and water buffalo. Even if it has not been your…
I fought preschool. When my son was three, we returned from Christmas vacation and I looked around and realized that every single one of his little friends, except one, was enrolled in preschool. I turned up my nose and crossed my arms. We don’t need preschool. Life is preschool. We bake, we go to the…
My husband is pretty fantastic. He’s super supportive of my doula work – making me breakfast-to-go in the middle of the night, listening to detailed birth stories, going with the flow of an on-call job. He’s a Math teacher, but he knows what a Foley bulb is and how to try to turn a posterior…
Before we talk snacks, let me clarify something – I’m not a healthy food expert. In fact, for dinner last night, my kids ate re-heated fast food fries and a bruised banana. For dinner. What can I say? It was a rough day, and I abandoned any real dinner plans early in the afternoon. So…
By Lindsey Avink Late New Year’s Eve, my husband and I sat on the scratchy loveseat in my parents’ basement and clinked our wine glasses in the blue lights from the Christmas tree. We named blessings and funny moments – a great meal at Girl and the Goat, potty training our daughter for a ridiculous…
By Lindsey Avink Birth is transformative. Nails grow beautiful from prenatal vitamins. Our bellies stretch wider than we believed they could and leave marks forever. Later, we grow muscles from carrying carseats and wearing babies. And the breasts – who knew! Yoga, squatting, breathing exercises, lotion on the tummy. We focus a lot on our…
