Today’s the day! It’s the launch of Better After Baby, the first postpartum fitness app to bring a full village to the palm of your hand. I’m so excited to bring this app to life. It’s a true dream-come-true for me, because it came out of a...
“Motherhood is my fire and my flood.” When I first heard that statement while interviewing a woman for The Mama Sagas, it took my breath away. It rang so true. Motherhood has a crazy way of building you up and breaking you down, all at once. It’s full of...
I never thought that I would enjoy motherhood as much as I do until I had my daughter. My friends will tell you, I always said, “I’m never having kids.” Everything with me is pretty intentional. Before I met my husband, I was always focused on my...
I was en route to our 5th annual college girls’ trip when I was unexpectedly reminded of how important it is for all of us, as moms, to create a village of support for one another. I went on the same trip when my first son was 4 months old, and while I loved...
An Interview with Dr. Jesse Witkoff If there is one single issue that had the biggest impact on both my babies’ first year of life, it is tongue tie. And the irony? I wasn’t given any information about the condition until I sought it out myself. But after...
The Marshall Plan for Moms is a start. But we can’t let quick fixes distract us from long-term solutions. In so many ways, 2020 was a dumpster fire of epic proportions. As the world slowed to a halt and we were forced to do things differently, we came face to face...
We interviewed Kate Eisenberg, MD, PhD, to get the answers you need to live your new normal. A lot of parents have questions about what's okay and what's not okay during this social distancing period. While we know that the situation is changing every day, it would be...
On December 9, 2017 my middle son left for the Navy boot camp. He was 21 years old. He had no military parents, brothers, or hugely patriotic upbringing. I don’t even like the president. But my son Gabriel had talked about enlisting, off and on, for years, and the...
This week, my friend Amy Rosoff Davis posted a photo on instagram with a caption about how hard it was to find balance as a working mom. It’s a struggle so many of us know all too well, and one of the biggest challenges we must learn to navigate… sometimes on a daily...
I’ve spent most of my 6 years as a mom just trying to keep up. With an active six-year-old who is obsessed with climbing, riding, swimming and week-long creative “projects,” and a 3-year-old who literally can’t go one minute without ingesting, licking, touching,...