Pregnancy & Preparing For Baby

A note from Alice: Today, we have a featured guest on our blog! Beth is an amazing working mom of two girls (ages four and six). By day, she’s a consulting manager at a software company and by night she’s a blogging supermom. Beth blogs primarily about balancing work and life for moms of kids under 10. Which […]

Preparing for baby number 2 has been a whole different ball game. I keep hearing myself say, “It’s like I’ve never been pregnant before or experienced the whole ‘labor and delivery’ thing.” With a toddler at home, life couldn’t be any MORE different.  That pregnancy trimester checklist…I mean, I did some of it. The hospital […]

A note from Alice: Today, we have a featured guest on our blog! Lauren is a talented financial blogger. She shares wonderful secrets to balancing time and money on her blog. Today, she’s revealing to us how to prepare financially and save money for a baby as well as which gender actually costs more! She would […]

Doe-eyed and glowing with first time pregnancy radiance, I imagine I might have been humming while birds sang as I packed that brand new hospital bag, straightened the perfectly organized, freshly painted nursery closet and typed up a flawless birth plan after my breastfeeding and prenatal classes. Preparing for baby number 2 was VERY different. […]

A note from Alice: Today, we have a featured guest on our blog! Monika writes about beauty, fashion, marriage, motherhood, and lifestyle. In her blog, she focuses on her personal successes and struggles so others can learn from them as well. She has a wonderful story and AMAZING advice for other mommies out there! I am […]

Labor and delivery can be tough, especially for first time moms. Postpartum though, that can be a WHOLE different story. The whole recovery process and healing after birth can come as a gigantuin shock to even the most prepared super moms. It definitely was for me. Your body has just gone through some crazy #$*! and […]

You’re growing a whole additional human inside of you. Even if that doesn’t creep you out in some sort of Alien type of way, you’re dealing with symptoms that have turned you from Jekyll to Hyde (or at least you feel like unleashing that exhausted wolfish pregnant lady within you sometimes!). And all that’s just […]

Likely, you have nested to epic proportions by now, especially if you are in the first time mom club. Or maybe your dreams are flooded with all things “preparing for baby” and checklist after checklist. If this is you, hear me out:  preparing for your newborn baby around the home DOES end. If you are diligent, […]

Bringing baby home from the hospital was the craziest shock my husband and I have EVER been through. We thought we had the whole “preparing for baby” thing DOWN, especially the first week. Newborn life couldn’t be that bad, could it? Oh man…I’ve never been so wrong and I blame one person: An ex-coworker of […]

If you are Googling postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety or new mommy blues, in my opinion, you don’t need a long list verifying your symptoms (unless your feelings fall under needing to seek professional help. See this section below). You arrived here due to concern about very real negative, anxious or overwhelmingly dreary feelings. Now that you […]