By Heather Sadlemire I sometimes look back at my life before my daughter and choose to pretend I’m watching a slow-paced, sepia-colored movie montage scene, set to some meaningful melody. You know, by Fleetwood Mac. Or Taylor Swift. There are embarrassing teenage indiscretions. Hard lessons learned after even harder nights in […]
By Rebecca Link It is Tuesday morning and I am rushing out of the house after getting into a petty argument with my husband over socks. I escaped with no baby puke on me, had time to throw on a little makeup so as to not look as awful as I […]
By Brandi Puga of Big Fit Fam I remember with my first child when the nurse asked us an hour’s worth of questions about our genetic history. Was there down syndrome in the family? How about cancer or blood disorders? I was initially somewhat terrified. This was the first moment […]
By Stephanie Pappas of snackdinner Food allergies are a serious, even life-or-death issue for some families. Even those parents whose children are at a low risk for developing allergies tend to be hyper-alert during Junior’s first few tastes of nuts. But how concerned should you be about giving nuts to […]
By Heidi Hamm I thought I was in decent shape. I believed it. I lived in a happy fantasyland that I was among the fit people. That if I really wanted to, which clearly I don’t, I could hold a plank for three minutes, do one hundred sit-ups and run […]
Nobody puts baby in a corner, but Finland has been putting newborn babies in boxes since 1938, and now the US is following suit. Putting your baby in a cardboard box might sound strange, but these box programs aim to lower the infant mortality rate by providing parents of newborns […]
By Jenny Jones of Life’s a Polyp For those of us with a rare disease or other chronic illness, it doesn’t take much to relate to one another regardless of the diagnosis. Our commonalities create an instant bond, an instant understanding of another’s life with chronic illness. We don’t need the […]
By Jenny Jones of Life’s a Polyp I was going through another bout of depression. Not anything particularly new for me. I’ve battled depression since childhood when my chronic illness started. I’ve completed years of psychotherapy and resume counseling when needed. Although the triggers of my depression vary, it usually […]