I might still be in shock that the New Year has actually come. Jase had a significantly long break and just went back to school today. I am still playing catch up and don’t feel like I have 100% gotten back in the swing of things. But before jumping into all the fun this New Year has in store (and I can’t wait to tell you all about it) I wanted to share some of the most popular posts from 2018!
Baby’s First Year: Newborn Schedule & Cluster Feeding
My Baby's First Year series has been one of the most popular series' you can find on this blog. I love being able to offer practical information to help moms out, especially when it comes to their babies and their routines. Sometimes it can be one of the most stressful things to figure out in parenting, especially when every baby can be SO different. So even though Jude is baby number three, I still come back to offer recent posts because, like I said, every baby is so different! Jude definitely fits this description because he has been SO different ...
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9 Things I Wish I Knew Before Breastfeeding
Before having your first baby there are a hundred and one resources you can look through, articles you can read, products you can buy, and birthing classes you can take. But when it comes to breastfeeding, the information out there is thin. No one really tells you the WHOLE truth. Sure, people tell you it’s harder than they thought, but all the other pieces of information about why it’s so hard seem to be taboo. Well, not any longer. Today I am going to share with you everything I wish someone would have told me before breastfeeding. Three kids later, ...
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5 Tips to Keep a Clean House When You’re Already Overwhelmed
I wish I could be one of those people that can just let the mess go. You know, those kind of people that can ignore the dishes in the sink, the laundry in the many baskets, the crumbs on the floor, the…well, you get it. I really wish a messy house didn’t bother me so much. But, the truth is, I am a much better mom when I don’t feel buried in housework and can keep a clean house. There is just one problem: I am so overwhelmed. My days are filled with constant to-dos between working at home, taking ...
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C-Section Awareness + Popular Posts
Did you know that April is C-Section Awareness month? Every year during the month of April I like to focus on sharing about C-Sections and what I have learned being a C-Section mama myself. There can be so many contradicting views on C-Sections, but I am so thankful that they enabled me to have my babies safely. From recovering from my unexpected C-Section to preparing for repeat C-Sections, I scoured the internet for all the information I could find. I was struggling to find positive information that would support me through those decisions. I knew that someone needed to be ...
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5 C-Section Birth Secrets
This post is sponsored by Evivo, but the content and opinions expressed here are my own. I think I must have fell asleep standing up at some point in the last 11 months because Jude is already a matter of weeks a way from his first birthday. I am not sure what happened to the last year, maybe I have been living in an overwhelming fog that I didn't see it pass me by. Yet, here I am again, approaching another sweet baby's first birthday. It seems crazy to think just 11 short months ago I was preparing to bring ...
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To the Mom Who Survived Childhood Abuse
I see you. Relentlessly pushing forward despite all the fears that run rampant in your mind. The fears of doing it wrong. The fear of messing up. The fear that you'll parent out of that fear. The fear that you'll be the same. The fear that you won't get it right. And yet, you're determined not to parent out of that fear. You're determined that fear won't control you...so you fight. You fight for yourself. You fight for truth. You fight for healing. You spend countless hours digging into the root of those fears and exposing the lies. Exposing what ...
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3 Tips to Handle Potty Training Regression
This post is sponsored by Pull-Ups but the content and opinions expressed here are my own. Have you ever potty trained a child? I think it has to be one of the WORST jobs as a parent. Literally. I would sleep train over and over if I could avoid potty training. I have said it a hundred times (maybe that's why Jude hates sleep). I despise potty training. So you can imagine my feelings when I thought I had potty training down with Elyse, and then she went through an awful bout of potty training regression. More than once. It ...
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Kid’s Bathroom Hacks
This post is sponsored by Scott Brand, but the content and opinions expressed here are my own. Do you want to know my least favorite room in my entire house? The kid's bathroom. The germs, messes, dirt, and just plain nasty that accumulates in the kids bathroom is something I never care to investigate. Please do not tell me those statistics because this room already scares me. To make this room a little less scary, I take control of the few things that I can and create some kid's bathroom organization hacks to make my life easier. Although these kid's ...
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Back to School Routine {Free Printable}
We are officially less than one month away from school starting. Before you know it, you will be greeting the back to school morning rushes, school lunch dilemmas, and the ever piling papers sent home every night. School really makes a difference in the way your days, especially morning and night, play out. Gone are the days of letting the morning and night time routine happen as it went. Now implementing a back to school routine is a must. I am so glad that we decided to do summer school with Jase. Our intentions were to help him get used ...
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The Weight of Freedom and Sexual Abuse
I was thirteen. In the cold, dark room, I froze. I wanted to yell stop. I wanted to run. I wanted him to stop. But I froze. I held my breath until it was over. I went to bed that night to wake up and never be the same. In my cold room, dark from the gloomy rainy day outside, I felt like throwing up. I felt like crying. I felt alone. After hours of agonizing I sent one text..."he touched me." "I told you he was bad news." I tucked the secret away and told no one. I should ...
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