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Once you’ve survived the fourth trimester (aka first three months), babe is gonna want some action and you better believe it’s all on us as parents to provide entertainment and teach our babes how to play. Yep… they don’t know what to do without your help and guidance. Insert yet another mad scramble to find age appropriate toys while trying not to buy everything because the new-parent-marketing is real and so is the work to sort through everything to make sense of it all.
Have baby, will (someday) travel. While big time travels are out the window these days, short weekend road trips and overnights at the grandparents are plenty ready! We ended up spending about half of our parental leave down in Carmel to find some peace and quiet (read: saving our neighbors from baby cries while we were figuring out this whole parenting thing). We definitely packed the car to the brim on those first couple of trips, looking back, it was quite comical. Now that we have a few road trips under our belt and time spent away with grandparents, we feel a little less frantic. Here are a few of our go-tos to make baby travel just a smidge easier.
Feeding our babes comes with its own set of challenges, everything says breast is best and the mom guilt is beyond real when we even consider formula. Early on, Bea and I had a few challenges and one middle of the night feeding required formula and I felt devastated that I couldn’t provide for my little one. Why are we so hard on ourselves?! Ultimately though, we’ve been able to breastfeed, so this blog post will cover things have helped in that region.
Being pregnant is no easy task, ask any woman who has experienced it herself and her partner that has supported her throughout the evolving changes—simply put, it’s hard. By any measure, my pregnancy has been a relatively easy one but that doesn’t mean it’s been all sunshine and rainbows, hardly!
I’ve found a few things that have been integral to helping me find comfort and feeling as good as I possibly can during this pregnancy both physically and mentally. None of these are sponsored and all are directly from my personal Amazon orders; they are tried and true—having made a BIG difference in how I feel throughout this pregnancy.
Well hello there! I’m crawling out of my first-trimester-induced exhaustion and feeling so full of love and gratitude for this community we’ve built. With so many changes that have taken place thus far in 2020, the one constant has been showing up and serving my students; no matter what. It’s been a source of deep fulfillment, even when the last thing I wanted to do was peel my buns off the couch. Teaching you gives me purpose. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to my students to show up and hold space. If you’re reading this, thank you for allowing me to be your teacher and for accepting me so completely.
Pregnancy is both incredible and wildly humbling. Through the last few weeks, I’ve been reminded of so many lessons that are far too easy to take for granted. If you care to indulge me, read on.
