Being an exclusive pumper means many things.
The biggest thing it means is that you are a hard working, loving, strong mama. Breastfeeding is so hard, and having to pump non-stop, 24/7 is just as hard if even more so.
There are lots of reasons why moms choose to exclusively pump breast milk instead of breastfeed.
Breastfeed, they said. It’ll be easy, they said.
And like a sucker I believed it…the part where they said it’d be easy.
I read here and there that breastfeeding is hard. But I always thought, not for me! I’m going to breastfeed my kids effortlessly! That was my attitude.
Congratulations! You made it through childbirth and are now snuggling at home with your new baby.
In a perfect world, every new mama would have live-in help for several weeks after delivery. Then you wouldn’t have to worry about a thing except nursing your new little one and recovering.
It truly was a miracle – my baby boy slept through the night!
For some moms, this was a much simpler feat to accomplish especially if their kiddo was sleeping through the night early on.
However, for me it was a BIG deal – after months of enduring sleep deprivation, I finally felt like I had turned a corner.
We remember it all too well.
The way your husband looked at you whenever you gave birth to that beautiful baby.
So you welcome a baby, or in my case babies, into the world.
You put all your time and energy into your pregnancy, the nursery, nurturing your growing bump. It’s everything baby for 10 months!
Then baby gets here and your whole world becomes a little bundle swaddled up in that white, pink, and blue receiving blanket.
Life as a brand new mom can be overwhelming.
So many new adjustments all at once.
Healing your postpartum body, caring for a new baby and figuring out if ‘You’ still exist somewhere in there.
By the way, even though your a new mom, ‘You’ still exists.
You may just have to redefine what that means.
Here are our favorite ways to make life easier as a new mom.
Hi Mamma!
If you’re going back to work soon from maternity leave (or have recently re-entered the workforce) and are planning to continue breastfeeding, you’re going to face a bit of an adjustment period.
Today I’m tackling one of the most challenging aspects of breastfeeding for many working women.
This post provides actionable tips to help you reach your breastfeeding goals – even if you’re away from baby at work.
Mirror mirror on the wall…new moms are prettiest of them all.
After nine months of solid wait your baby has finally arrived in your life.
You are absolutely smitten by those chubby cheeks, tiny hands and toes.
What’s the ideal age space between two babies?
This is a question I never really asked myself because I wanted to enjoy every single moment with my daughter. All my friends were planning their second baby by the time the first was going to pre-school.
I couldn’t settle myself to this common idea of a 3-year gap between babies. Having close pregnancies were not something I was very appealed to either.
