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Learn to rise above it. Be secure in who you are. Take comfort and be reminded of all that you are and all that you know of yourself.

Jan 14

Jan 14 A Mother Lost and Found

These days, social media makes motherhood look like the glamour pages of fashion magazines. Bodies are fitter, hair is shinier, lips are plumper and everyone seems to have a boat, a diamond and copious amounts of organic, hemp, hand woven, beach bleached kids clothing. How can the average mum keep up with this?

Jan 9

Jan 9 The Truth About Stay at Home Motherhood

Once we decide to leave it all behind, we may choose to not look back … We put away the business suits and stare wistfully at the carefully curated career shoes and purses in which we “invested”. We take comfort in the leggings, loose tops, casual dresses and comfy flat shoes.

Dec 31

Dec 31 2018: The Year I Lost My Mother

Nicola R.N.

One night at bedtime, several months after her passing, my five-year-old son seemed to finally come to the realization that his granny was gone forever. He sobbed softly into my arm for several minutes before finally drifting to sleep. My heart shattered all over again.

Sep 6

Sep 6 Never too Old to Need our Parents

Jude-Anne Phillip (Guest Blogger)

Although my parents have always been there for me, I believe that it was only after I became a parent myself that I started to understand them as adults, and as individuals.

Aug 20

Aug 20 Be the Adult you Want your Children to Become

After I got rid of the evil incarnate with an entire can of bug spray and emotions were stabilized, I started to replay the scenario in my head and I realized just how much our children are influenced by our own fears and emotions.

Aug 19

Aug 19 Letting Go as She Prepares to Soar

Until now, you have been mostly our baby girl, our little girl. But tomorrow, we will let a little of you go. Tomorrow, you start elementary school.

Aug 10

Aug 10 Am I Really Made for Motherhood?

“Accepting myself - the good, the bad, all of it…Maybe that’s the first step toward becoming “successful” as a mom? By acknowledging my faults, celebrating my strengths, recognizing that I wasn’t born to be a mom, but that I can become one not only physically, but psychologically, spiritually, maybe that’s the key here?”

Jul 28

Jul 28 The Beauty of the Balancing Act

Mom Life

I recently went back to work full time, after 5 years of part time. As many mums do, I questioned how this would affect my son. Would he be upset by the change in routine? Would I have enough time with him? Will he think I am never around?

Jun 21

Jun 21 All in a Year. Reflections on My Son's First Birthday.

I imagine that every child’s first birthday is a time of nostalgia for parents, an opportunity to revisit the day when your life changed forever while celebrating all the exciting memories and milestones of your child’s first year. For me, as a preemie mom, reflections on my son’s first year of life are tinged bittersweet.

Jun 21

Jun 21 My Virtual Village

Mom Life

It is the silence in the bus, on the way to work. It is the quiet at night, when your thoughts consume you. It is wanting to share the good stuff and hear the voices of the people you love, feel their warmth, watch them grow old.

Jun 6

Jun 6 Life and Risks After motherhood: In Pursuit of a Passion

Though I did my job well and proved capable of more, I just felt that I could not reach for the next step. And it seemed that motherhood pushed the next step further away. I did not quite know or understand how this happened.

Jun 6

Jun 6 Cranial Helmet Therapy: Inconvenient, Yes. Dreadful, No.

Mom-vice

Every day, I would schedule several 10-minute slots of time when Noah would have to be on his tummy. I researched “how to make your baby like tummy time” and tried every single trick of the trade I could find. Nothing.worked. As a result, my son spent a lot of time on his back, his head leveling out little by little without us even noticing it.

May 17

May 17 One Word, Mum.

I stand there, flabbergasted. Shocked into silence. Was it my clothes covered in paint? My hair? What was it that said to this woman, so absolutely, that I was not a mother walking with her son?

May 14

May 14 Sweet Baby Boy, Man in the Making

Mom Life

I look at my son, in all his innocence and childish naivete, unafraid to play house and family with his sister, or heck, even allow his sister to dress him in her princess costumes when she is lacking a playmate. Even as I hope he fits society's mold, I wonder how much longer will he be free to be candid about his feelings and thoughts.

May 7

May 7 When Breastfeeding Isn't a Choice

When I missed a session, the guilt was overwhelming. “You don’t really want to make more milk, do you?” I would badger myself and then feel awful that I wasn’t “doing all in my power” to make the breastmilk that my premature son so desperately needed.

Apr 27

Apr 27 Walks and Talks With My Daughter, Through Childhood and Beyond

Instead of thinking that I am losing her to the world, I will believe that she is my gift to the world. I commit to walks, and talks, with my daughter, through her childhood and beyond.

Apr 23

Apr 23 Sleeping Like a Baby: 5 Strategies I Adopted to Help My Son Establish Healthy Sleep Habits

Mom-vice

I stop. Exhale. Then, I take a few steps down. Not before long, the crying starts again. My jaw feels like it’s going to crack under the pressure, but I continue down. I take a seat on the couch and listen intently, helplessly, not knowing what to do to relieve my son’s unrelenting anguish.

Apr 14

Apr 14 Striking a Balance

Kristina Cappetta