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.
Our house has needed some happiness these past few weeks and we have found it in the Netflix Original Series Queer Eye. We have watched all of the prior seasons as well but Season 6 in Austin, Texas has taught our family some lessons that are now close to our hearts. I love that we can watch this show as a family and we all laugh and I will be honest, I normally get a little teary-eyed.
Here are five lessons The Fab Five taught our family:
Black can make a room look bigger.
Bobby Berk taught us that a black wall in a small space makes the space BIGGER. We have lived our lives thinking that black walls make a space...
Disclosure :: This post is sponsored by Kinetic Physical Therapy.
Motherhood & Incontinence : What You Need to Know!
Society deems incontinence as a normal part of motherhood. However, this is a misconception. Leaking urine is abnormal and warrants attention.
Urinary incontinence is defined as any amount of unintentional loss of urine. The most common type of incontinence, especially during the perinatal period, is stress incontinence. This is the unintentional loss of urine with a physically stressful episode. A “stressful episode” is an increase in pressure in the body that can be caused by a laugh, cough, sneeze, jump, or strain.
About 30-40% of women experience stress incontinence postpartum. Women who deliver via Cesarean section can also experience incontinence symptoms. Leakage is a common...
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 the plastic felt like on my twins’ incubators.
I didn’t know I was in labor four a couple of days before heading to the hospital at 30 weeks pregnant with my twin boys. Feeling intense cramps that kept getting worse, I decided to head to the hospital. Indeed, I was in labor, and the cause was a UTI. I was put on an antibiotic drip and sent up to high-risk because my contractions weren’t stopping. In a matter of 24 hours, I jumped from 2cm dilated...
And no, I’m not talking about those giant granny panties you probably wear when it’s that time of the month. Though, I’m sure they’re great.
No, I’m talking about the super absorbent, comfortable, stylish period underwear from brands like Thinx, Knix, and various other companies that you wear instead of a pad or a tampon.
Because listen, all my fellow vagina owners…
They. Are. Magic.
Freeing.
Comfortable.
I will NEVER go back to the horror of disposable pads and tampons again. So pull up a chair and grab a snack while I hop up on my soapbox. *Ahem*
If I seem a bit intense about this, I am. For several reasons.
First, periods suck. All cramps, headaches, backaches, bloating, and hormonal acne aside, the fact that you...
It sometimes happens very unexpectedly. You wake up, begin your normal morning routine, and then you feel it. A very slight, hardly noticeable, ever so subtle “something,” call it a feeling, in your stomach. It’s not a pain, just a small ache. It could appear after some long weeks of parenting or working or both … or long nights of waking up with an infant. Sometimes it is not even a feeling that is desired … but it is still there, present enough to, for a brief moment, take your thoughts away from the tasks of the day ahead. Then this thought or feeling, given the slightest opportunity to be entertained, makes itself more present, but still whispers to...
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