Mandy
New You: Adjusting to Your New Identity After Big Life Transitions
I've done a lot of soul searching lately, which requires a lot of reflection as well. It's been hard to navigate some tricky life transitions, but let me give you a quick, high-level overview of...
What’s the Deal With Doulas? Why I Won’t Labor Without One
Our sweet baby girl entered the world four months ago. I have been getting so many questions about how she is doing, how her birth was, etc. When I tell people our birth story...
Pregnant? Take a “Babymoon”!
A WHAT? You heard me right: "baby moon." A babymoon is a last hurrah trip before you welcome your little one. Corny? Absolutely. Like you needed an excuse to spend some quality time with...
We’re Expecting Our Rainbow Baby!
It took some time – healing and trying – to get pregnant again after we lost our first baby to miscarriage, but we are very lucky that it happened for us naturally. The second...
Lessons Learned from Loss: My Miscarriage Story
July of 2015 was the first time in my life that I got a positive pregnancy test. My husband and I were so excited – we cried, we laughed, and we told our close...