Grateful for Breastfeeding

When breastfeeding is working well, it’s easy to take it for granted but lately, I’ve come to realize just how grateful I am for it.  With my first son, I was grateful for breastfeeding because it gave my baby the extra immune support and because I felt like it was the perfect nutrition formulated just…

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You Are Enough

A couple of days ago a good friend sent me a text “please tell me it’s ok to stop nursing, I am drowning” or something to that effect. It got me thinking. We are so hard on ourselves. I mean we were hard on ourselves pre-covid but now? This situation we are living in is…

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Adventures in Occupational Therapy: Body Brushing

My last couple posts have been about the start of our occupational therapy journey with my older son.  For the last three years I have questioned some of my sons’ behaviors only to be told that they were normal and that he would grow out of them.  Fast forward and we now know that my…

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Occupational Therapy

In my post last week (read it HERE) I talked about my older sons’ recent sensory processing diagnosis.  Now that we know the root cause of many of my sons’ behaviors we are working on how to change some of them for the better.  To that end, my son is now receiving occupational therapy –…

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Sensory Processing

In the past year I’ve posted a few times about what it’s like to have a difficult toddler and to manage problematic behaviors.  I’ve often wondered if his behaviors were my fault or if something else was at play but time and time again I’ve been told that “boys will be boys” and that he’s…

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Bouncing Back… Or Not

Our society sometimes leaves moms unprepared for what new motherhood is like.  We are told what to expect up until the delivery of our babes and thanks to social media and movies, we expect that as new moms our days will be spent joyously snuggling our newborns; blissfully happy.  Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case.…

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Life with a Threenager

If you follow my posts, you might remember that my toddler just turned three in June.  In the last three years I have heard time and time again that three is a difficult age but I never really paid any attention, after all, every age is difficult in its own way.  That said, nothing prepared…

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