Pregnancy + Birth

Easy pregnancies, natural births, bringing my little bundles home happy and healthy. That's what I had planned. With both of my children, but it didn't happen that way. My pregnancies consisted of appointment after appointment. Disappointment after disappointment. And,...

One in four, I am sure anyone who has had a miscarriage knows that daunting fact. One in four women have experienced the loss of a miscarriage. I am now in a new statistic; one in a hundred, and...

After the birth of my fourth child, I had an Amniotic Fluid Embolism. I wrote in a previous post about it in case you are unfamiliar with the rare phenomenon. Coming home was terrifying because I was battling (and...

I recently read a post in a Facebook group in which a young mom asked, “When do you start to feel like yourself again?” This got me thinking about when I started to feel like “Erin” again in my own...

Recently, as I was going through my maternity photos, I was looking at myself in each of the pictures and immediately overwhelmed by the emotions I had felt when they were taken: I was scared stiff. I already had my...

Bloom :: An Event for New and Expectant Moms is just days away! Why do you want to join us at Bloom?  We have been so busy behind the scenes making sure this event is perfect to celebrate motherhood and...

April 10, 2020 had been marked on my calendar for close to three months. This was the day that our son was scheduled to be born via c-section. I had everything planned: activities we were going to do with...

Being a parent is hard. It’s important to realize we all have our own struggles. Some bigger than others and some we would never dare to tell anyone. Perhaps they don’t feel important enough or are just plain embarrassing.  We...

It’s Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month and all month long I’ve been reading beautifully-written and harrowing stories of miscarriage, stillbirth, sudden infant loss, infant loss due to underlying medical conditions, and termination due to fatal chromosomal abnormalities, but...

Sure, I may have recently sent my youngest out the door to preschool, but parenthood hasn’t stolen all of my brain cells yet. I haven’t forgotten those early days of mothering: heavy, milk-engorged breasts leaking against a tattered nursing...