A Miracle Birth Story When I first found out I was pregnant, my reaction was pure excitement. I was going to be a first-time mom and looked forward to experiencing pregnancy, just like I had watched on my binge of TLC shows and movies. I just knew I would have a cute...
I’ve never really understood why they call it a “birth plan” because I’ve never met a single mom whose delivery went the way she visualized it would! Sometimes you just have to laugh it off… Here’s an excerpt from my interview with...
This. This clip right here sums up what so many of us feel in the early days of motherhood. When we we began filming The Mama Sagas videos, Cristina was one of the first women I interviewed. Speaking with her was one of the most profound moments I’ve had on this...
Oh man. It’s so easy to be dialed in, literally, all the time. This right here is why so many of us have a love/hate relationship with those tiny glowing things in the palm of our hand. No judgment here, mama. Been there. #neverenoughtimeintheday...
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,...