It wasn’t that long ago, that women in the United States were required to dress in a certain way. The suffragettes battled legislation in the 1910s that was trying to make it mandatory to wear corsets & hemlines that were only one inch off of the ground. This sounds ridiculous to modern women of ...
Mom Self-Care
Planning for Childbirth
Childbirth is an area of medicine that has seen a lot of changes throughout history. Your grandmother had a very different pregnancy & childbirth experience than you will have, & what is even more surprising is that your mother probably also had different recommendations throughout her ...
What Do Those Food Labels Really Mean?
I don’t put a lot of stake in sensationalized media articles, & I try to take a more moderate view of the world we’re living in. Nothing is ever as bad as people try to make it out to be, there is a lot of good in the world, we are not all doomed to a dystopian future. However, I do believe ...
Men vs Women Getting Their Picture Taken
I spend a lot of time on social media, which means that I spend a lot of time looking at pictures of people; & the one thing that has really been standing out to me recently is the lengths that women go to to look great in a picture. We spend hours picking out the perfect outfit & doing our ...
Free Mother’s Day Printables
My grandma gave me a box of old notes & clippings from my grandpa, & as I was going through the box this quote from a 1960's poem stood out to me. The poem is What Mothers Are by Irene Steigerwald, & I know that it will resonate with all of you incredible mothers out there who put your ...