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Pregnancy and the Body – Part 3 Postpartum In summary, here is how I feel about my body today… “What body? I have a body? Who said that? Sawyer, don’t touch that. What stretch marks?[…]

When Sawyer was no more than a peppercorn in my belly, Jamie and I agreed that we wanted to have a family full of happy little travellers. As such, we made a commitment to travel[…]

The Placenta Plan ****This is not intended to be a blog in favour of or against placenta encapsulation. Given that it is an unregulated industry, I implore everyone to do their own research, assess their[…]

Welcome to the World Little Man!!! In our prenatal classes, they cautioned us against using the phrase “birth plan”, when discussing how we wanted our birth experience to go. Instead, they encouraged us to use[…]

For some reason, one of the first questions we were asked after announcing our pregnancy was whether or not we were going to have a 3D ultrasound done. I don’t think it was something that[…]

Where were we again? Ah yes… so I did what I always do, I reached out to a few women in my life for their opinion on the subject. I was hopeful that they would[…]

“Oh vanity! Thy name is ‘pregnant lady’” – Shakespeare (adapted…like really adapted) I am really struggling with my changing body. Oh the guilt I feel saying those words aloud! I feel selfish, vain, ungrateful and[…]

And I thought fertility drugs made me anxious and emotional! Then I got pregnant…and then I stayed pregnant. I don’t think I ever fully grasped the complex variety of emotions that lived inside me until[…]

After two long, arduous and often painful years of fertility treatments, struggles and loss, Jamie and I are FINALLY able to announce that we will be expecting a beautiful baby BOY this July!!! To say that[…]

Acupuncture has been a very large part of the last two years of my life. What began as a supplement to my fertility treatments has become an integral part of my lifestyle and my fertility[…]