You don’t have to be in pain to need physical therapy

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I am 11 months postpartum and I finally got in to see a pelvic floor physical therapist. I am strong. I am a former division 1 athlete. I bike and swim and walk and lift. I do strength training and HIIT and spin classes. I have focused on gentle postpartum core strength and healing diastasis … Continue reading

An Inauguration Day of Hope

On Wednesday, at 11 a.m., there were tears in my eyes. At first I unconsciously tried to blink them away, but then I realized that I didn’t care because I was working from home, alone, because everyone is social distancing on the 1-year anniversary of the Covid-19 virus being discovered in the U.S. and causing … Continue reading

This is not another mommy blog.

I didn’t want this to be a “mommy blog.” I never thought that the only thing I would have to write about would be my kid. I didn’t want to give anyone advice on the best baby gear, the tricks I use to get a baby to sleep, hacks to get your toddler to eat … Continue reading

There is only one first Mother’s Day

I think I finally understand the true meaning of Mother’s Day. Growing up, I knew Mother’s Day to be a day where we put our handprints on construction paper and told her how much we appreciated everything she did for us. We went out to brunch after church and we took pictures on the front … Continue reading

Riding the waves.

There are ups and downs. It’s a rollercoaster. There are tough days and there are great days. It’s the hardest, most rewarding, most wonderful time of your life. Enjoy every minute. You’ll have no idea what you’re doing most of the time. You will cry, hormones are raging, baby blues and postpartum depression are real. … Continue reading

The day my daughter entered the world.

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About a week after we got home from the hospital, I wrote down the story of my daughter’s birth. It was 13 pages, and it took me six days. I wanted to remember every little detail and yet even after 13 pages, I still think I missed things. There are parts of that day that … Continue reading

There is no emoji for how I feel about this.

Four months ago, I peed on a plastic stick, and as the two thin lines slowly materialized, life as I knew it changed forever. That was just a few days after I wrote my last post about the Three Rivers Arts Festival. I was actually pregnant when we went to that festival, I just didn’t … Continue reading