Ask any Baton Rouge mom what she wants for her children, and health + wellness will be one of her first responses. Whether it’s the mental health of her teenagers, how much screen time to allow her toddlers or struggling with breastfeeding, moms simply want the best outcome for their children’s overall health.
Disclaimer: This post is sponsored by Indie Plate, a local grocery delivery service. We proudly stand behind their product and the ideas presented in this post.
"Breakfast is the most important meal of your day" - this is a saying that is often echoed by everyone around us. But with kids and work and a generally busy schedule, who has the time in the morning to cook up a lavish breakfast? What can you do as a busy mom who wants to feed their family a delicious breakfast, but just can't find the time or the energy in the morning to hit the kitchen? Like we, at IndiePlate, always say - "We don't just want to be known as a...
Several times in my new motherhood, I have found myself telling someone, “This is, like, a thing now.” For pretty much any parenting decision you make these days, there is a corresponding label for it. And a few piles of books written on it, detailing why it is the best thing in the world. Natural childbirth, attachment parenting, unschooling, free range parenting, authoritarian parenting, cry it out, baby-led weaning.
When Sam turned six months, I dutifully introduced solids – with my shiny new immersion blender and silicone ice cube trays (BPA free, of course), ready to puree all the things. Yeah, he would not have it. For a month, I fought with Sam, trying to get him to eat these...
Disclaimer: This post is sponsored by Indie Plate, our local grocery delivery service. We proudly stand behind their product and the ideas presented in this post.
Here at IndiePlate, when we have our daily meetings to discuss what new products go on our Fresh Market at www.indieplate.com, there is one question we always ask ourselves - how can we make our customers' lives easier without compromising on health and quality of life. Around the end of August, in one of our meetings, it became obvious to us that with school and work starting in September, and football season getting into high gear, time will be of the essence for all #IndiePendents.
All throughout the summer, What's Cookin' Wednesdays have focused on...
Each year around Labor Day, approximately 115 cities around the country hold the Rally to Improve Birth sponsored by ImprovingBirth.org. This year, Baton Rouge held it's 3rd annual rally, and I was lucky to be invited to participate as a co-coordinator along with Hannah Birchman (mother of 6 and Coordinator of the Baton Rouge Chapter of the International Cesarean Awareness Network) and Amy Shamburger (mother of 3 and Administrator of the Louisiana Natural Birth group). More than 135 men, women, and children fought the heat and came together to "stand in support of evidence based maternity care and the right of women to make their own informed decisions about how to give birth".
2014 Rally Coordinators and speakers
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The other day I had a conversation with a friend who had just had a baby two days earlier, and she wanted to know how I had lost all of my baby weight. She had literally just come home from the hospital and was already allowing herself to feel shameful about her body. It broke my heart to hear her express her feelings of unworthiness and insecurity, but it brought back the feelings that I experienced shortly after giving birth.
Immediately after my second son, Ben, was born, I felt insecure and ashamed of my body and the 70 pounds I had amassed during my pregnancy. And even though this was not my first child and I knew that it would take a...
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Where to Find the Best King Cakes in Baton Rouge
Where to Find the Best King Cakes in Baton Rouge
Are you a huge fan of those cinnamon-flavored dough rounds covered in sweet green, gold,...
