My husband and I aren’t exactly strangers when it comes to relationship challenges 💞. We have been together for 14 years and married for eight, so we’ve definitely gone through some growing pains as we navigated a long-distance relationship in college and our first year living together as a married 👫 couple.

But nothing has challenged our relationship quite like our first year as 👪 parents .

Before you have your first child, you have these grand ideas of what it will be like. There’s more slee...

“You look too young to be a mom!”

Or how about …

“You have a BABY? No! You look like a baby yourself!”👶

Oh wait, here’s a good one …

“Are you the nanny, ooor … ?”

“No, yeah I’m his mom,” I’d reply. “Yes, I am young,” I’d agree.

Considering I got pregnant straight out of college, I was certainly on the younger end of the parenting spectrum. (No one was more surprised than me, I assure you.) And yet, I wasn’t exactly a teen mom. I wasn’t juggling school courses and motherhood, like so many s...

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Moms,

Welcome to #momlifechats! We’re so excited to welcome Infant & Child Sleep Consultant Hailee Schollaardt (@nurturingsleepsolutions). Hailee has been a Certified Sleep Consultant for 3.5 years. She has 3 kids aged 4.5 years, 2.5 years and 6 months and knows all too well the difficulties of a non-sleeping baby. “My first baby was 11 months old before he slept his first 2 hour stretch (It was a wednesday) and since then I became obsessed with learning about sleep!” Hai...

Before u become pregnant think of this

Do I want to be uncomfortable as hell for 40-42 weeks?

Do I want to be in horrible pain for up to 14-16 hours even longer

Can I handle pushing a big ass head through my vagina

Can I handle this with no pain meds(sometimes u can't make it in time)

Do I want to go to the hospital 10x before I'm actually in labor.

Because inducing your labor at 32-37 weeks for your own selfish needs or getting a csection to do it the "easy" way is just plain selfish and FYI a...

So it would seem I jinxed myself..... last night I had a "nose bleed"in my lungs. Which means I was coughing up blood for a good 20 minutes. Needless to say that freaked me the fuck out. It's never lasted that long or much or been that fresh. So I've kicked my ass in to overdrive to get the things together for the kids. Their birthday cards are done. But I honestly been putting off the videos because it been to hard for me to think of everything I'll miss. So it's time for me to stop being selfi...