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What My Baby Taught Me | Breastfeeding + Formula

Breastfeeding is a journey. A long, constantly-evolving journey. Sometimes breastfeeding looks like these photos — beautiful, peaceful, connected. And sometimes it looks distracted, squeamish, impossible. This is the start of a new video series I’m doing, titled “What my Baby Taught Me.” The focus will be on lessons learned from my boy, shared in a minute-long video you can watch quickly (they’ll be posted to Instagram each week). This first one…. Read more

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Looking Back on 2017 | My Best Year Ever

Happy almost 2018! I am so excited to be spending it at home this year for the first time in years. Jake and I are cozy cozy cozy at home with our boy, and it feels really calming. This year has been so beautiful, so tiring, so euphoric, so challenging. Everything in my life dramatically changed over the last 12 months, and yet I feel more at home with myself…. Read more

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Dear Baby | A Letter to My Boy Six Months In

Dear Baby, Here I am, six months in, staring at you. Your eyes find mine, and that toothless smile of yours starts to stretch wide. You have arm rolls and a round belly and a head full of hair. Some days you look a lot like me. But on most days, you look just like your daddy.  I kind of feel like we’re best friends now. We spend a lot…. Read more

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This is 30 | My Thirtieth Birthday Party

Thirty is a big birthday (in case you missed my post — click here for my ‘thirty things I learned by thirty’ post). I had debated for months on what I wanted to do — a low key dinner at home, a weekend trip away, or a fun party with all my favorite people. Ultimately, Jake said he’d take the reigns and plan something alongside my parents. I didn’t want…. Read more

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Baby BOO’s | My Boy’s First Halloween

I’m currently in a candy coma (while Evan is in a milk coma), while going through photos from this month. It is so much fun to celebrate holidays with a babe. There’s this infinite amount of joy to see the world new again. It makes every experience — from seeing the leaves shift color, to visiting the pumpkin patch, to dressing up in costumes on Halloween— feel like the happiest moments…. Read more