Mommin’ Ain’t Easy

Breast or Bottle Co-Sleeping, Bassinet, or Crib Your room or Nursery Purées, BLW, or Both Stay home or daycare Cry it out or pick up and hold Scheduled c-section, induction, natural, VBAC, etc. Home birth or hospital birth These are just a fraction of the choices new moms are faced with just in the very beginning. I’ll stop listing because let’s be real, when it’s all written down and we realize all the decisions we are going to be making, things get overwhelming. Some of these choices are huge and for some of them, both options are equally acceptable. It depends on the mom. One thing that I think is universal though, is that as our baby’s mom, WE get to make those choices. That’s something that is important to every mom. So what happens when life takes away our choice? The budget dictates you stay home, but you really miss your job. Health reasons mean that your baby will be bottle fed from day one when you so badly wanted to breastfeed. That’s hard.  How often when th...

This is a post i’ve been writing renditions of for so many months now. It’s never felt like the right time, and no matter how many versions I write in my head, it never seems to have a focused point other than an explosion of emotions that make no sense. Welcome to losing a child. But I guess when it comes down to it this post is mostly for me. I want to help other moms and friends of those moms of course. More importantly, I also want to speak to the power of my God, and I want to remember what experiencing that closeness was like. Who knows what this will accomplish.....only one way to find out! Plus there’s also the fact that every time I touch those still too raw feelings, the tears come. It’s beautiful and it’s painful all at once, but what location  do I have where I can write freely and cry ugly? The answer to that is anywhere. But I’ll explain that later. I kept making excuses. Waiting for the perfect picture to post with it, waiting for clarity, composure, time e...