Pregnancy, Birth and Babies
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Modest Maternity Dresses for Pregnant and Nursing Moms: Affordable, Comfortable and Stylish Maternity Fashion
You’ve gotten to the point that you desperately need some maternity dresses, right? Your rapidly growing belly has you looking for options, but sticker shock is making you decide that it might not be too bad to resort to wearing hand me downs from other family members. You shouldn’t have to, though!! You should be stylin’ your own look and feeling glowy and beautiful in your pregnancy! For my first couple of babies, I thrifted “maternity” clothes and had a few items passed on to me. I didn’t update my style each time, but just pulled out the same things for each pregnancy. I used larger sized skirts with elastic…
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Navigating Breastfeeding: A Guide for New Moms
Have you ever wondered what it will be like to breastfeed your baby? I dreamed about it for myself, long before I had my own children, instinctively longing for it as an expression of my womanhood and fulfillment of God’s design for me. I felt that it would be a precious and beautiful thing. I wanted it to be a good experience right out of the starting gate, so I read up on some things and I think it made a big difference. In this post, I cover several little known breastfeeding tips and tricks that might be just the ticket for you! I think that some of these are…
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How and Why to Write your Child’s Birth Story
Women love to swap birth stories! I just can’t believe that there aren’t designated journals for writing about it!! You’ve probably landed here, wondering how to write your child’s birth story. I have some tips and advice for you that I hope will be helpful. As a mom of 6, I have written quite a few birth stories! Every birth is unique, as every woman is unique. And giving birth is an out of this world experience for everyone. For some, it’s beautiful and peaceful, for others, there is processing and mental and emotional healing that needs to happen, if it involved an emergency, or was hard and long or…
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9 Quick tips and tricks for treating a Breast Infection Naturally. A nursing Mother’s guide to stopping a breast infection in it’s tracks!
Nooooo….I had one of those annoying, painful spots, a precursor of a breast infection, show up. Again! I found it in the middle of the night while nursing my two month old. Having had experience with this before, I immediately knew that I had to take steps to nip(ple) it in the bud! This is something that you don’t wait to take action on. You’ll get to a point that you won’t feel like doing what you need to, and then it’s downhill from there. So quick action is the best route. In this post, I’ll talk about… Since I’ve stopped every breast infection I’ve had, in the early stages,…
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7 Excellent Reasons to Relax about having Your First baby (or another baby)
I was nervous about having my first baby… Would I be a good mom? Even though I grew up in a large family and had lots of experience with kids and babies, I still felt that way. I wish that I hadn’t been afraid of how I would be, though! It made it harder to enjoy my first baby and I wish that I could do it over again and not be so uptight about it. I feel like I was able to relax a whole lot more with my 2nd…so I hope you can learn from my mistakes and have a glorious and wonderful first experience! There are so…