A lifestyle blog by Lauren Hartmann
The other day a friend of mine posted a link to this Cosmo article in which two women were interviewed about what it’s really like to give birth (and go through pregnancy/postpartum ish) and I thought it was an interesting read, so I decided to take their questions and answer them myself, since obviously you’ve all […]
I shared this post over at Babble already, but I really wanted this information to be able to live here permanently on my blog as well, because I get asked often about what my pregnancy favorites are, so I finally sat down and made an exhaustive list for reference. If you are pregnant or have a […]
This post is a short one, but it’s an important one…a PSA if you will. Just in case any of you dear readers are pregnant or plan to one day be pregnant, you may want to give this post a read. It’s basically everything you never wanted to know about postpartum, but probably should know […]
Having a natural birth was one of the proudest accomplishments of my life. I’ve never been what most would consider to be “tough”. I don’t have a very high pain tolerance and I’m typically all for things that will make tasks easier, so the fact that I pushed a baby out of my you-know-where without […]
If you’ve been following along with the birth story series here on my blog, you’ll know how much I love natural birth. I think it’s beautiful and wonderfully empowering. That said, not all births go the way we want them to. Each baby and each birth is unique and different. Today’s birth story is a beautifully […]
When I was pregnant with Fern, I thought about it a lot more than I think about being pregnant with this baby. Part of me feels a little bit bad about this, but the other part just realizes that life was just different back then and that’s OK. I’m chasing around a toddler now and […]
