How do you feel about your postpartum body? I imagine, quite possibly a lot like I feel about mine. It’s overweight. (Well, over the weight I want it to be). And stretched out, lumpy, sore, scarred, stretch marked, emotional and hormone...
Category - Mamahood
Week 3 & 4 of MuTu: A Few Failures, Latest Results
So you might have noticed it’s been a little bit since my last MuTu update. I chalk that up to life. Motherhood, actually. Well, the motherhood part of my life, which, right now, IS my life. 😉 I have pushed through though, and exercised during...
Mama Confessions – What Your Life Is Going To Look Like
Life is radically different from 3 years ago. If you would’ve told me then that by this time, I will have experienced pregnancy, completely natural labor and delivery – TWICE, started, lived through and mostly finished another whole...
Week Two of MuTu – My Progress, Results and Thoughts
How many of you end up getting ‘real life’ all messed up in your plans? That’s me. But what do you do about it? It’s real life. There isn’t anything more real than that. You work around it. You work with it. You do what...
From The Tired, Lonely, Discouraged One Called Mama
It’s been a long day. No, it’s been a long week. There’s been a thousand diaper changes, at my hand. More than 50% requiring a whole outfit change because the poop or spit up was too much to just be wiped away. (I don’t wipe...
Diastasis: What This Is and My Epic Plan to Heal It
This is another thing no one tells you about when you get pregnant. Your ab muscles are going to split apart. There I said it. I’m sorry. I know it sounds awful, and harsh, and gross. But it’s something we mamas have to deal with and...
Mama Confessions – What You Need to Know Before Having a Baby
I’ve come across quite a few people that honestly think having a baby is a blissful, fulfilling, amazing, breathtaking, easy-as-pie sort of thing. You’re thinking I’m going to say, ‘Not so!’, but not so. They’re...
The Crazy Tradition of Celebrating Baby #1, but Not Baby #2
Disclaimer: This is NOT a post about my own situation, but about the underlying problem in our society. Something sweet we have experienced this time around is the care and love from unexpected places. The doctor I worked for up until the month...
Be a Part of My Little One’s Life Or Not
Giggling and excited pattering of 16 month old feet running across the room is what you hear when our older friend from church, John, comes over to help my hubby work on the house. When Mom and Dad, my husband’s parents, came over to get our...
Mrs. Clinton: My Little Girl is Valuable and Powerful and Deserving Too
This election season has been brutal. If you haven’t been in the trenches of it, if your Facebook feed hasn’t exploded with people crying, complaining, celebrating, bemoaning or belittling others, your family isn’t either raging...
