my most used items | in the first month postpartum

my most used items | in the first month postpartum

In the midst of all the baby items being undoubtedly thrown your way, I wanted to share with you a very minimal list of my most used items my first month postpartum, as a postpartum doula and mama of five. Nightgowns (for both her and I!) top the list, with both this...

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How I’m supporting my postpartum healing

How I’m supporting my postpartum healing

The postpartum time period is the highest drop in hormones a woman will experience. The placenta takes over hormones production during pregnancy, and then we deliver that placenta, and it takes our bodies a while to get our hormone production back on track. This...

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a goodbye to home.

a goodbye to home.

Home. We’ve brought babies home here, I’ve actually birthed a baby here, I’ve cried out to God within these walls. I’ve praised Him for a great many blessings. Home is more than walls and paint and light fixtures. It’s a rhythm, a song, the one you want to play over...

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uprooted.

uprooted.

I know God is real for many reasons, one of them being His willingness to speak to me through dreams. Maybe they're visions, I'm not really sure, but I know there have been a few times in my adult life when I know He has spoke to me through them. The most recent time,...

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An end begets a beginning.

An end begets a beginning.

Another year is coming to a close, which reminds me that endings beget new beginnings. A comforting thought as the swiftness of the passage of time becomes more and more evident to me. My baby is nearly a year and a half old, my oldest child is in double digits, and...

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