After the birth of my first child, I was inundated with articles about postpartum sex. Article after article discussing how women could not wait to be intimate with their partner again. Claims of how the six-week wait was too...
One afternoon as I sat with some old friends watching our kids play, the topic of trying to conceive (TTC) came up. I was so struck by each of their journeys as we talked about secondary infertility, IVF, and...
This is my child's brain on Paw Patrol.
Actually, I think he was watching a nature video, but that doesn't make for as good of an opening line now does it?
Ok. Let me back up and give you some context....
At about this time last year, there was a near-constant stream of birth and pregnancy announcements in my social circle. I found out I was pregnant with my third baby, just as some of my best friends were starting...
When you’re struggling to get pregnant, it can be isolating, emotional, shameful, and just really hard. It’s almost impossible to prevent it from impacting every area of your life, especially work. In addition to the emotional toll that TTC...
I am the mother of two boys under the age of two. Two boys with two very different birth stories.
As a textbook Type A Perfectionist, I planned and constantly dreamed of the “natural” delivery I would have with my...
Black maternal health week. BLACK maternal health week. Black MATERNAL health week...
I will NOT capitalize the word health because we BLACK MATRONS don’t have any health to spare for that. The experts have weighed in and the studies have been...
Is there really a way to prepare for a human person exiting your body? I don’t think so. In fact, I even questioned attending the Labor and Delivery class being offered by Women’s and Infants. I know we all...
It's hard to believe three weeks have passed since we hosted our first annual Bloom. As the PMB team has reflected on the event, we keep thinking about what we heard over and over again as guests filed out...
Previously on 41 and Pregnant: Gigi found silver linings in what has been an otherwise difficult pregnancy.
As I write this, I'm 32 weeks pregnant, and I've never been this pregnant before. My water broke with my twins at 31...
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Family-Friendly Walks Throughout Rhode Island
Now that spring has officially arrived and warmer weather is (hopefully) on its way, it's the perfect time to get outside for a family...
