New Mom Toolkit: How to Use Dry Shampoo
Oh, dry shampoo. You are the savior to tired, rushed and overworked moms everywhere. Here’s how to use it the right way and avoid a head of powdered George Washington-style hair.
Oh, dry shampoo. You are the savior to tired, rushed and overworked moms everywhere. Here’s how to use it the right way and avoid a head of powdered George Washington-style hair.
Because you’re not gonna lose the baby weight reading blogs on the couch. TRUST ME.
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.
How to know if it’s Thrush.
At some point, you may start thinking — dreaming! wishing! longing! — about leaving the house. By yourself, with your husband, partner, friends. Anywhere and spend two hours free of the fear that someone is going to vomit into your cleavage.
Of all the postpartum fallout to my body, my c-section scar is actually pretty low on the list of things that bother me. But it’s still there. And I did wonder if there was anything I could do about it.
How to cope when introducing your newborn to siblings and/or pets doesn’t go as smoothly as you hoped.
I believe I’ve mentioned once or twice or fourteen-dozen times that my older son became…intensely challenging in the weeks and months right after we brought his baby brother home. He was three years old, and he was AWFUL. I feel like I can call him that because 1) he’s not, anymore, and 2) because he was objectively, literally, monumentally AWFUL.
Technically it’s probably more useful to friends and family of postpartum moms than to actual postpartum moms, but…whatever. IT’S TIMELY. AND EVERYBODY LIKES PRESENTS.
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.
Secret shame: Nobody wants to talk about how nobody wants to have sex anymore.
Let’s skip the formal column and go shopping this week instead.
I am trying to welcome this new phase. After 20 months of breastfeeding, letting go of the latch is both hard and good.
How to find breastfeeding advice and support immediately after giving birth and in the postpartum months without having to hire a lactation specialist.
It’s an unfortunate side effect of the “Pregnancy Causes EVERYTHING” routine: Sometimes we still ignore things that, before pregnancy and childbirth, would have sent us hightailing it to the doctor a long time ago. And maybe still should.