Brittany
Will I Ever Stop Hearing the Beeps of the NICU Monitors?
No, it’s not schizophrenia. I’m just a mom who still, after almost three years, hears the beeps of all the monitors, feels the coldness of a dark room, and remembers the touch of what...
There’s Something About NYC That Makes Mama Feel Alive Again
It’s like a scene from ‘Sex and the City’… no really. I struggled with perinatal and post-partum depression during and after giving birth to my twins, so I haven’t quite felt beautiful in a...
Nutrition: I Couldn’t Lift or Run My Post-partum Weight Off… I Tried
For eight years, I spent many hours in the gym focusing on weightlifting and hitting new personal records. As told in a previous blog of mine, I started off in all body-weight exercises and...
Am I Failing as a Mom? :: When Katrina Kids Turn Into Ida Mothers
Not only could I not handle riding out a storm, but I absolutely was falling apart knowing I would have to do it as a mother of three.
Boom! There went a metal object and...
‘Mothering’ with a Heavy Heart
How do you grieve, cry, get through personal challenges while ‘the show must go on’… being a mom?
Mom is supposed to be the fearless emotional backbone of the family, the one our babies come...