Postpartum
Embracing the MIL Silent Treatment
An expectant mom needs advice on how to handle her overbearing MIL now that she’s expecting her second baby. She doesn’t want to feel emotionally bullied again.
Postpartum
Building a Breastfeeding Support Plan
How to find breastfeeding advice and support immediately after giving birth and in the postpartum months without having to hire a lactation specialist.
Postpartum
C-Section, Cough and Congestion Care
How do you care for yourself post-c-section when you are congested and coughing? We have some practical and been-there-done-that advice.
Postpartum
Post C-Section Depression
A new mom is very upset about the traumatic birth of her baby and we believe she may be suffering from postpartum depression and needs to seek help immediately.
Postpartum
The Postpartum Visitors of Doom
How do you tell your friends and family that you need your privacy and to maintain your sanity during the first weeks after the baby is born without being rude?
Pregnancy
Postpartum Travel: How Soon Is Too Soon?
Should a mom commit to being a matron of honor at her BFFs wedding cross country when it’s so soon after her due date? What is realistic travel for a new postpartum mom?
Pregnancy
Nursing Bras, Nursing Tops, Nursing Fashion Faux Pas
A postpartum mom has a specific but common nursing bra style challenge. Amalah needs your insights and recommendations to help out this mom.
Postpartum
Bounce Back: Must-Have Healthy Postpartum Snacks
Following the birth of your child you NEED TO EAT. And you need to eat well, and regularly. Here are our fave postpartum healthy snacks.
Postpartum
Summertime Sanity
A teacher is at home full-time this summer with a toddler and an infant, and each morning dreads the super long intensive daylight parenting hours ahead of her. Is there more to this than just the new summer schedule? Amalah thinks maybe.
Baby
When Weaning is Drawing Near
I am trying to welcome this new phase. After 20 months of breastfeeding, letting go of the latch is both hard and good.
Postpartum
Postpartum Hair Regrowth of Weirdness
A postpartum mom is dealing with a common problem: baby fine hair regrowth. She’s seeking advice on how to manage this change in hair growth.
Postpartum
Sex After a C-Section: What’s “Normal?”
A postpartum mom is now experiencing pain and other symptoms after sex and wants to know if this is normal after a c-section or whether this is something she should be more concerned about.
Pregnancy
The Post-Pregnancy Body Changes That Nobody Talks About
Amalah discusses her diastasis recti, umbilical hernia and other post-pregnancy body changes that nobody seems to talk about.
Postpartum
Post-Baby Foodshaming
A new and breastfeeding mom is being food shamed by her husband for her increased appetite and postpartum body. She needs help on talking to him.
Pregnancy
The Postpartum Visitor Guilt Trip
An expecting mom needs help understanding whether the extreme guilt trip she is getting from her mom about postpartum visiting plans is justified or not.
Postpartum
Post-Tubal Depression
A mom can’t shake the feeling of sadness and regret over a tubal ligation. What should she do?
Postpartum
Postpartum Visits: How Helpful is TOO Helpful?
An expectant mom is trying anticipate the balance between her need and wanting of help from her own mom and her husband’s need to private family time on the second time around.
Postpartum
An In-Law Relationship Makeover
The holidays are around the corner and my relationship with my husband’s family is a mess. How can I fix this? Should I fix this?
Postpartum
On Post-Pregnancy, Post-Breastfeeding Body, Hair, Skin, Oh My!
On post-everything hair, skin, body issues…and how to not let them define your self-image.
Baby
The Colic Outcasts
My newborn has colic and now my family is hanging out without me! Are postpartum hormones just making me oversensitive? Please help.