I received product samples and was compensated for this post. All opinions and pumped milk remain my own. Simple. Expressing and storing your breast milk, whether you are returning to work or just building a stash so you can leave the house alone can be simple. Philips Avent has put all the supplies you…
I received this product free for review. All opinions and breast milk remain my own! Since giving birth to Little Miss Cub, I don’t have enough hands. Hold the baby, cuddle the preschooler, read him a story, play “rescue gadgets,” check my iMessages, answer the phone, get some food, change a diaper… two hands just…
It’s hard to believe that it’s been two weeks since Little Miss Cub was born and I became a mother of two. The time has flown by, and has, overall, been (metaphorically) hiccup free. As for actual hiccups, she gets them a lot. Cub helps “cure” them by singing “Hiccups, go away” to the tune…
Most of the items featured in this post will be the focus of full reviews later on, but I thought I’d put together this quick mash up of the products Little Miss Cub and I can’t live without this first week home together. Note that I am not including cloth diapers, although we’ve been using…
I recently asked over on my Facebook page if Mamas believed they had done something or experienced something to bring on their labour. I got lots of cool and varied responses, from different types of food to acupuncture to more deliberate medical interventions. As for Little Miss Cub, before going to bed on Saturday…
I’ve had a few readers ask me what I’m putting in my labour bag, and I finally got around to making a list! I re-packed my bags yesterday, because that’s what nesting mothers do, no? I am once again delivering in hospital, but the things I’ve packed for myself are a lot different than with…
I was really hoping to not have to write this post. In fact, when I scheduled my second follow-up ultrasound (due to low amniotic fluid at 37 weeks), I was sure this was an appointment I would be happily cancelling. Alas, it was not to be. We just got back from our ultrasound at 39…
Alright, so, once again, no hard feelings if you haven’t been keeping track of my Birth Plan. I’m actually really touched by how many of my readers are keeping track! I’ve had a lot of comments lately asking if I was cleared for out-of-hospital delivery so I could have the home birth I decided I wanted…
I received this product free for review. All opinions remain my own. Multi-stage: this is a critical feature of maternity products for me during this, my last pregnancy. When I was pregnant with Cub, I didn’t really care: I knew my maternity wear would be useful a second time around. For my first pregnancy, I…
If you’ve been keeping score (and I forgive you if you haven’t been), I’ve been planning on giving birth to Little Miss Cub in a Birthing Centre under a midwife’s care since even before conception. So it’s a huge turnaround for me to suddenly be saying: “I think I want a home birth!” (That was actually…
Just in case you’re wondering, my omnipresent sun hat is from MEC, it’s “Outdoor Research” brand, and I love it. My tank top is Au Fait Mama. Greetings from Third Trimester Land, everyone! A mere seven weeks to go, which at times seems like an eternity and at others seems like not quite long enough…
So naturally, my goal at the start of this pregnancy was to write a journal entry every week. I also planned on doing some knitting for Cub 2.0. Ha! Who was I kidding? My knitting supplies are still in storage somewhere in our new home-city of Calgary, and my journals are getting more and more sparse.…
I received this product free for review. All opinions remain my own. Oh, sleeping. Ever so important during pregnancy, yet oftentimes so difficult to achieve. Achieving any kind of comfortable position, lying down or not, becomes rather challenging by the third trimester (at the beginning of which I currently find myself). My Coussins Etc. maternity…
I often read complaints from parents with lots of kids (Definition of lots of kids depends on your perspective… I confess that for me, lots of kids is three and up!) about the stupid comments and judgments strangers make about their big brood. “Are they all yours?!” “Don’t you know how babies are made?” “Were they all planned?”…
Bam! Third trimester. I checked my pregnancy app multiple times per day when I was pregnant with Cub. I knew what fruit he was, I knew how pregnant I was up to the day. Just now, in order to title this blog post, I opened my app to discover I was in my third trimester!…
My name is Lindsay and I am a 40-year-old mama of four trying to live an eco-friendly, budget-friendly life! I am a substitute teacher and Child Passenger Safety technician in Calgary, Alberta. Join me on my adventures!
