How important is it to prepare your body for pregnancy before you conceive? Well that depends on who you ask! As a holistic nutritionist and prenatal wellness coach I believe that the first opportunity you have to optimize your child’s health is in the preconception period. It also helps to boost natural fertility, which could …
A Pro-Choice Perspective
Dear readers, some of you have expressed confusion about the apparent lack of consistency between the views expressed here and the view expressed elsewhere on this site. The answer is simple: I am pro-life. My friend Julie is pro-choice. Neither of us like those terms per se, but that is the most universal way to …
The Young & The Pregnant
Hello Mommypotamus…readers! (“Mommypoty-ites” didn’t sound right and neither did “Mommymaniacs”)
Thoughts on a 9/11 Baby
After absolutely no warm up anything, I started feeling some early labor stuff last night. It’s been a tough road since then. My body is urging me forward and my emotions are fighting me back. It’s September 11th.
Mommypotamus vs the H1NT
It was a Labor Day festival of fashion greatness! Check out my AMAZING baby shower gift worn especially for Labor Day. I know, my friends ROCK!!! Below that there is a pretty funny clip you should check out, too ; – ) Funny But True Facts About Big Pharma I can’t say I agree with …
Mile Marker 40
Forty weeks is kind of an arbitrary number. . . due dates used to be estimated around 41-42 weeks. Even so, I’m so excited to be at this point. Not every circumstance is as I would like it to be, but I feel surrounded by love . . . my family’s, friends . . . yours. …
Countdown
In almost every spy movie or tv show I’ve ever seen, someone at some point has to diffuse a bomb. Jason Bourne, James Bond, or Jack Bauer deftly cuts the blue, red, or black wire right as the timer hits 1:00 minute left. The clock stops. Everyone in the theater exhales the breath they didn’t …
What Do You Do Differently With Baby #2?
Hey, cruncharoos, Daddypotamus here. With 4-6 weeks until Babypotamus makes his/her grand entrance, I’m starting to wonder how this one will be different. The mystery’s gone… I know what having a baby at home LOOKS like. And I’m starting to vividly remember the challenges of getting our Katie girl to sleep. Rookie mistakes and all. But …
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