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...

GO THE f*** TO SLEEP!

Aggghhhhh! My 1 yr old won't stop crying or whimpering! It's been nearly 2 hours! Not hungry, dry diaper, nothing on her fingers or toes, no fever, no ear infection, no vomiting or diarrhea, NOTHING! She's normally an easy sleeper. I just had a 3 day weekend, but tonight she wants to be fussy?! She has dozed briefly a few times but wakes up crying again. I'm losing it! I need to sleep! I even dragged her into my son's bed but it didn't help. Now he's awake too, and tryin...

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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...

I can't take it anymore! Haley (yes my 1mth old and no I wasn't able to go through this "joy" of nursing my older daughter, Molly) has been screaming non stop for 6hrs! All she wants to do is eat and I can't have her attached to me all day, everyday! She has wanted to eat every hr on the hr for the past 3hrs! I put her in her room so I don't scream at her but I just can't take it!