Pregnancy
Dressing Your Bump: Creating a Stylish Plus-Size Pregnancy Wardrobe
Listen, I know many people love shopping, but buying new clothes can be annoying and stressful, especially when dressing a quickly growing baby bump! As if finding the right items for your belly wasn’t challenging enough, finding stylish options for a plus-size pregnancy wardrobe can feel even more difficult! Society makes living in a plus-size […]
The Best Prenatal Vitamins for Pregnancy in 2024
Do you remember when you were a kid and the extent of your vitamin regimen involved a chalky chewable that resembled a cartoon caveman from the 1960s? Unfortunately, choosing your prenatals isn’t as easy as popping your morning Flintstone vitamins. So how do you choose the best prenatal vitamins for pregnancy and trying to conceive? […]
Baby on a Budget: A Frugal Mom’s Tips for Enjoying Your Baby’s First Year
With the price of baby goods on the rise, having a baby on a budget seems like an impossible task, but parents who avoid confronting these expenses are at risk of greater stress and anxiety. Taking charge of your baby budget and staying on track is not only a major confidence boost, but financial mastery […]
Sick While Expecting? Try These Safe Cold Medications for Pregnancy
Sometimes, we forget that “normal sick” is still a thing during pregnancy…at least I did! I was so focused on things like early pregnancy signs and basic morning sickness symptoms that I was slightly taken aback when I got a run-of-the-mill sinus infection. Let’s remember, though, just because we’re dealing with these like morning sickness, […]
14 Weird Things That Happen During Pregnancy That No One Told You
The first moment I experienced lightning crotch (more on that soon), I nearly fell to the floor in pain. I was changing pants sometime during my second trimester, and boom–it was like an electric shock hit the left side of my vagina. Honestly, I had NO clue what was going on down there, and it […]
My Honest Genate Test Review: Personalized Nutrition Changes the Game for Fertility & Pregnancy
When I was pregnant with Jack, my now 6-year-old, I had one major mantra that I repeated over and over and over again: “Control what you can so you can release what you can’t.” As someone who’s lived her entire life with Generalized Anxiety Disorder, trying to conceive and pregnancy were stressful times for my…ahem…control […]
Protect Your Skin & Your Bump with These 12 Pregnancy Safe Sunscreens
Getting outside for some fresh air and Vitamin D is always a good idea during pregnancy, but how are you supposed to protect your skin while you bask in the glory of a good lake or beach day? Is there such a thing as pregnancy safe sunscreen? We all know that a lot of products (including […]
Minimalist Newborn Essentials: Everything You Need For The First 3 Months
As a new mom, I spent hours searching and researching the perfect newborn baby gear from the ideal bottle to the best rug for a baby nursery. Rather than focus on minimalist newborn essentials, I spent ages hunched over my laptop spending way too much money on things that would ultimately sit and collect dust […]