The key to postpartum recovery is to feel like you could do more, then ***force yourself not to!!***

Yes my mom had a baby at 40 and 42.

2 of my 5 refused bottles completely. Strained straight to a sippy cup.

People make all the difference. I had to take my son to hospital yesterday - he was diagnosed with pneumonia in one lung, given medication. He immediately threw it up. A nurse came in, was confused that he'd be sick on meds "from us" and then hand waved "probably just try

We took our kids everywhere! This was ten minutes before we started a multi-hour cave hike. Sometimes, kids are the excuse to do fun things, rather than the reason not to.

Hot take - if you’re going to pitch a fit or tantrum over a certain baby gender do NOT have a gender reveal party. Find out in private, get yourself a therapist, and handle that before your baby arrives and you traumatize them.

What's something that you say out-loud every single day without fail? I'll go first. "Are you pooping?"

Talk to him briefly on the phone today for something else. He said “by the way. I decided to do that emotional fasting thing you recommended. I think it was a better idea than I thought it was you first mentioned it.”They might give me grey hair but I wouldn’t trade it.

This is so real.

I don’t think I’m ready for the holidays. It’s been very tough with family dynamic lately. Plus my sister having yet another custody court case first week of Dec doesn’t help.

A friend of mine who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability,

morpheus have you ever had your nipple slowly licked?

I had five home births, unmedicated and two quiet hands off. For each birth I at minimum had a diagnostic ultrasound to rule out the big bads that would have unfathomable and preventable outcomes and disqualify a responsible home birth. It’s not typical to do zero care.