Couples believe that once they have had a child, there will be no issues conceiving again and unfortunately this isn’t always the case. Secondary infertility affects 11% of couples who already have children, approximately 4 million families according to...
Before marriage, before kids, my husband and I made the first major commitment of our life together when we brought home our puppy, Annabelle. We were both so in love with that sweet little ball of fur, and like...
June is National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month- as are most months, in our house. I've been a Vegetarian for the majority of my life; beginning Thanksgiving Day the year I turned 13. The last meat I ate was chicken in the...
So this is it. (Read IVF Part I and IVF Part II) After two weeks of medicines and doctor’s appointments, we are ready to try to get pregnant. On a day determined by my doctor, I gave myself one final...
There is a list of basic life skills all parents instinctively know they must teach their children to keep them safe and healthy. It includes habits like looking both ways before you cross the street, washing your hands with...
  Some jokingly say that a parent’s job is to worry, but most parents come equipped with instincts that usually win out when there’s cause for concern. Many find themselves watching how their child moves, behaves, plays and communicates, looking...
Our story began like many others. After an uneventful pregnancy and relatively easy labor, I gave birth to a healthy 8 lb. 9 oz. boy on May 20, 2011. Our sweet Ryder progressed as all the charts said he...
The March of Dimes was created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938 in order to raise money to fight polio. The foundation funded research for the polio vaccine, which effectively ended epidemic polio in the United States. With...
This is a sponsored post by Bean Tree Pediatric Dentistry. When our daughter Avery was about 2 years old, we had a dental scare. I noticed dark areas in all of her molars, and my husband and I were concerned that she...
When I found out my husband and I were expecting our second child, I immediately vowed to myself that I wouldn’t fall into the second child time trap that I heard so much about... you know, the one where...
Over the last 100 years, immunizations have become one of modern medicine’s greatest success stories. With the introduction of vaccines in the twentieth century that provided protection against some of the most common and deadly childhood illness like measles and mumps, polio, and smallpox, the last several generations of parents in the United...
Have you heard that Bay & Bee recently completed an expansion, and with this growth comes some exciting changes! If you haven't been there recently, I recommend stopping by to see it--the fabric store next door to them was available...

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