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.
Disclosure :: World Breastfeeding Week is recognized August 1 – 7, 2016. This year, the World Breastfeeding Week theme is about how breastfeeding is a key element in getting us to think about how to value our wellbeing from the start of life, how to respect each other and care for the world we share. Our World Breastfeeding Week is sponsored by Woman’s Hospital.
You hear it all the time, “The weight will melt off while you’re breastfeeding!” Well, after nursing my first son for 22 months and now that I’m going on 17 months with my second, I’d like to call total and absolute BS on that one. Suuuure, it may work for SOME, but for the majority of us it just doesn’t...
Disclosure :: World Breastfeeding Week is recognized August 1 – 7, 2016. This year, the World Breastfeeding Week theme is about how breastfeeding is a key element in getting us to think about how to value our wellbeing from the start of life, how to respect each other and care for the world we share. Our World Breastfeeding Week is sponsored by Woman’s Hospital.
One lazy day when my oldest daughter was about four months old, my husband and I decided to go to town (what we folks outside of city limits say when we venture into the Red Stick). I filled two bottles with breastmilk and packed up the diapers. I fed our daughter the first bottle during one of the many...
Disclosure :: World Breastfeeding Week is recognized August 1 – 7, 2016. This year, the World Breastfeeding Week theme is about how breastfeeding is a key element in getting us to think about how to value our wellbeing from the start of life, how to respect each other and care for the world we share. Our World Breastfeeding Week is sponsored by Woman's Hospital.
As moms, we already think about so many different things every second of the day with kids, work, schedules, etc. Breastfeeding just adds a whole other dimension to our non-stop thought process. Here is just a small sample of things that may go through a breastfeeding mom's head over a period of 24 hours or maybe even just 10 minutes.
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A few months ago, I received a Fitbit as a birthday gift from a group of friends. Everyone should have friends like that in their lives - people who get together to buy you something just so they don't have to hear you talk about how much you're *really* thinking about buying one for yourself. These people are awesome and they know who they are - but they have NO IDEA what they've done.
I'm a little obsessed with it. Is it just because it's new? Or because I don't like to lose (even to myself)? Or because these things are addictive?
You be the judge.
In the vein of classic Jeff Foxworthy, can you relate?
You might be obsessed with your Fitbit...
Sometimes this whole Mom thing can be really hard! I've blogged before about what it's like to be a mom living with depression, and let me tell you, it's really been dragging me down lately. One of the classic symptoms of depression is a lack of interest in things you used to enjoy. And lately I've had a severe lack of interest in doing just about anything.
This lack of interest makes my days especially hard, since I'm a stay at home mom. I have 4-year-old and 2-year-old boys, and they pretty much demand my constant attention and interaction. Sadly, I've been unsuccessful at teaching the oldest the art of independent play, which means they both want Mama all day,...
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