Who doesn’t have the occasional sore back or achy feet with pregnancy? Here’s a great little kit you can make yourself to help soothe yourself when your maternity massage therapist is on vacation. It’s a great money-saving quick fix, too. It’s especially fun to use when your significant other can help! What You Need –Essential…
Image by Ingrid Franz Moriarty By the second month, most moms-to-be know they’re expecting. This stage may seem a bit surreal in your mind, while your body faces reality head-on. Many experience fatigue, breast tenderness, digestive upsets and “morning sickness,” which can honestly be “all day sickness.” Nausea and throwing up lie on a spectrum…
Image by Classic Kids Photograpy Nursing is feeding your baby, plain and simple. It is how we all got here, truly. OK, you may have been formula fed, but don’t be so short-sighted. The only reason why as a species that we exist, is because in the beginning, a baby was fed by her…
Summer goes by way too fast, and kids grow up too soon! Don’t wait another minute. You can survive a spur-of-the-moment road trip with your toddler and have fun doing it. Here’s my car essentials kit / road trip survival kit. Why not put one together for yourself? One of these days, you’ll wake up…
What first comes to mind when I ask you about summer holidays and safety? I’m a product of my generation and immediately think of car accidents (aka drinking and driving) or when it comes to the 4th of July, firecracker safety. What do either of those activities have to do with pregnancy and post partum? …
One of the most important purchases a new parent makes is a car seat and stroller. Children spend many hours sleeping, eating, and drinking in their car seat or stroller. It is easy for parents to think less about the care of these items. While regular messes, like sand, playground dirt, etc. – usually…
Cord Blood Banking with ViaCord Every month thousands of parents choose to bank their newborns cord blood. Why? Cord blood stem cells are doing amazing things right now – helping treat serious diseases and changing lives for the better. And the potential of cord blood stem cells continues to be explored with clinical trials underway…
Photograph by Ingrid Franz Moriarty, all rights reserved What does Pregnancy is internal mean? Kind of like what does Pregnancy Awareness mean, right? It’s 1 part “duh” and another part “ahhh”. There is so much happening inside our bodies when we are pregnant, think of it for a moment. Life is being created, inside…
image via Jennie Quicksall Photography Congratulations. You are expecting a new baby and among the many decisions you will make is how will you feed your baby. If you are considering breastfeeding you may be a bit apprehensive about stories friends and family members may have told you about nipple pain, low milk supply and…
Whoever came up the old saying “you can’t live with them, you can’t live without them” must have been referring to their parents or in-laws. Nothing challenges your relationship with your parents more than joining their ranks and becoming parents yourselves. Having your own child often stirs up feelings about both the positive and negative…
Anna and I had the wonderful experience of participating and being taught parenting education classes through the RIE method in Los Angeles with all of our children. It is a method that is focused on parenting infants through the 2 year of life. My memories of those parenting classes was that they felt more like…
Photo courtesy of Pain to Power Online Childbirth Classes and Videos “If I don’t know my options, I don’t have any.” ~ Diana Korte When you think of pleasurable birth, is safety the first thing that comes to mind? Safety is where pleasurable births begin. To find pleasure in childbirth feeling safe is best achieved…
PAM 2009 is underway. The PAM Team is gearing up for a fabulous LA kick-off event, this year’s “Motherhood Begins Now” event will be on Saturday May 2nd. We purposefully chose a weekend so that working mom’s/mom’s-to-be and their families can also join in the fun. We will have our Mommy Lounge with wonderful spa…
Image by Ingrid Franz Moriarty, all rights reserved We are officially in the throes of the official hunger games for families and children….the Holiday Season! I personally couldn’t believe how much I could stuff my belly this past Thanksgiving, and remembered the time when I was in the middle of my first Trimester, preggo,…
Is anyone else out there wondering if it is safe to drink coffee while pregnant? It begs the definition of “safe” in the question I pose. So, let me clarify. What I really mean is, is it okay to drink coffee while pregnant? Is it healthy for the growing baby? Will it have any side…
Fact : One in four babies born in the United States are born cesarean section. (That’s about 1 million deliveries per year) Cesareans have been part of human culture since ancient times. According to Greek mythology Apollo removed Asclepius, from his mother’s abdomen. The term is commonly believed to be derived from birth of…
#MayPAM, Celebrate Mama, Earth Day, Pregnancy Awareness Month
We are still focusing on dad’s this month. And here is a tip from my hubby, who walked into being a full time dad, at the peak of his career. He was the youngest in his family and had never held a baby until our newborn daughter was in his arms. He travels for work…
Last week we had a Facebook Chat with pediatrician Dr. Tanya Altmann and the topic was #BabySafety, in honor of all the Child Safety and Passenger Safety weeks that occurred during this month. I thought I would share some of the great Baby Safety tips that Dr. Altmann gave out during that Facebook Chat event,…
When I was newly pregnant with my first child over 9 years ago I began to look at the bigger picture. Not only did I begin to think about what I was putting on and in my body and how these things would affect my growing child but I also began to think more about…
Lucas Janin, photographer, all rights reserved “First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in a baby carriage.” This is an anecdote that most individuals remember saying growing up, and the majority of individuals believe that this is the normal progression in life. Yet in that childhood song, there is no mention of…