Kate and I connected over our mutual love and respect for the postpartum period. She is a postpartum doula and mother of 3 and has built her in-person and online practice on the pillars of providing quality support for the precious days and weeks after birth. I’ll let Kate take it away with her response […]
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Grocery shopping Many major grocery stores now have the option to shop online and have your groceries delivered to your home. Huge time saver and a potential money saver – I mean how many times do you realize you made impulse buys when putting the groceries away that you really could have done without?
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This sucky sucky feeling will appear (over and over) as you get used to becoming a working mother. Because #havingitall is a myth. Balance is a myth. You learn to redefine productivity, reorganize priorities, and centralize the wins that pre-baby might no have seemed like a big deal. Don’t get me wrong, there is
Us Type A control freaks business owners love a good tracking system. When I had just given birth I asked some of the smartest entrepreneurs with new babies what they used, and then did my homework to figure out which ones are the best (IMHO). In no particular order, here’s some of the apps
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This month’s Mama Story features Julienne DesJardins, a virtual assistant with expertise in digital marketing. As a business owner turned mamapreneur, Julienne brings lessons from management, marketing, and mamahood into the mix of her postpartum journey. Confession: I’m one of those people who starts listening to Christmas music in October. So, naturally, I
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Maternity leave – It’s been all over the interwebs lately. I’ve been doing some head nods as many major news outlets push for more generous parental leave and provide detailed reasons as to why this is important. (If you haven’t read these and are interested, check out this and this.) When you are a business owner, although
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This month I am honored to share another Mama Story, this time from a mama who I’ve known for nearly 10 years ago! Of course, we weren’t mamas at the time… Angie is a fellow health researcher, we met in Los Angeles while we were both students. I was completing my first training fellowship with
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As I write this, Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month is slowly coming to an end. The one month a year when the topic is in the public eye and in the forefront of our minds. I was honestly on the fence about whether I would write this post at all. I thought, “what does
After two Mama Story guest posts where Deborah Leigh-Lasarow and Racheal Cook both shared what postpartum life with twins was like, I knew I wanted to provide a little extra support for those of you expecting two (or more!) babies. Thank goodness for Multiples Experts like my friend and colleague Hannah Poles!!! She specializes in
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Each day, at the end of my shower, I indulge in a 2-minute long “spa treatment.” It’s the highlight of every morning. And incredibly simple! Here’s my “top secret” recipe : ) I keep a small bottle of sesame oil in the shower It stays pretty warm thanks to the Caribbean temperatures around here. At the
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