The message from the Universe has been loud and clear. I just wasn’t listening. I continued to push, do, move, go go go. I’m betting you’ve been here too.
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a reminder of joy
st week, I sat down for a business dinner and in effort to get to know one another better we ended up talking about interesting things we've done along our life's path. When it was my turn to share, I opened up about my experience of having a quarter life crisis--yes, legitimately. (CLICK TO READ MORE)
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Baby Play Must Haves
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.
Baby Travel Must Haves
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.
Baby Feeding Must Haves
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.
Renew: Stepping onto the Mat in 2021
The word that embodies my focus for 2021 is renew. 2020 brought a lot of personal change, with the welcoming of our daughter, Beatrice. I allowed myself to shift priorities; a singular focus of getting know this new being and stepping into my new role as a mother. Now that I’m feeling more like myself and (kinda) getting the hang of being a new parent, I’m ready to renew my focus on health and wellness.
Savor + Protect
The dramatic shift in lifestyle leading up birth and now has proven to be ripe for savoring the simple things. After Bea was born, I thought I’d be able to hop right back into everything I was doing before getting pregnant: workouts, to-do lists, running the household, hanging out with friends… you know, normal life. I can now admit that was a bit naive on my part (insert joke about being a first time mom). What I have found is that erasing my to-do list, at the encouragement of my therapist, I have settled into a slower pace. It’s as if the weight of that list has been lifted and now we can slow wayyy down.
A Journey Through Pregnancy: How to Feel (Mostly) Good
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.