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Life After Pregnancy: The Fourth Trimester Hits Different
On March 9th, one day before her due date and in a whirlwind, we welcomed our beautiful daughter to this world, and just like that, our little wolfpack became a family of four. This moment felt like millennia in the making, especially as I muddled through the final weeks of pregnancy, yet nothing could have fully prepared me for the wave of change that followed her arrival. The love? Instant and overwhelming. The transition? Beautiful, brutal, and everything in between. This blog series will be my space to unpack it all—the unfiltered realities of postpartum life, the quiet (and not-so-quiet) struggles, and the slow unfolding of this new chapter in…
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Advanced Maternal Age: Something to Celebrate
Hello all! Coming at you live, at about 16 weeks pregnant with my second baby by the time this publishes, and I am ready to talk about all of the positive things around “advanced maternal age.” For those of you unfamiliar with the term, “advanced maternal age” is the language used by researchers and medical professionals to define pregnancy at or after the age of 35. This term has been around since the 1950s, with some variations including “elderly pregnancy” and “geriatric pregnancy.” If those are the alternatives, I’ll stick with advanced maternal age (or AMA). The threshold is somewhat arbitrary in that, it signifies a gradual decline in fertility…
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Bump Diaries: The Sequel
Baby number two is on the way! I am so excited to document this pregnancy in all of it's uniqueness.
