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5 Tips for Maintaining Your Social Life After Baby
One thing they don’t tell you about becoming a mom is that you’ll have FOMO like a MOFO! Before the baby, Tuesdays were reserved for tacos and tequila; happy hour on Fridays was for celebrating the end to a long work week; I was at the club with my girls on Saturdays because ladies were free before 11 PM; and, of course, I was enjoying bottomless mimosas at brunch on Sundays. Those were the days! Now, my social life after baby looks a lot different. These days, I’m lucky to have the energy to put on clothes, let alone the energy to get out and be social. Whenever I do…
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News Flash: Losing Weight While Breastfeeding Isn’t the Hardest Part
After giving birth, the doctors assured me that nursing would help shrink my uterus back down to its normal size, helping eliminate some of that extra baby pouch that was still there—one of the things they don’t tell you about when you’re pregnant. It definitely helped. And, one thing I found to be true for me was that losing weight while breastfeeding wasn’t the hardest part; the struggle came in maintaining. I never took the time to figure out how to calculate how many calories I burned while breastfeeding (like really, who has time for that?). But according to multiple sources, depending on how much and how often your baby…
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Breastfeeding in Public Is Legal in All 50 States. Yay!
Forgive me, I’m a little late on this one but I decided to take some time for myself. But now that I’m back, I hope you could sense my sarcasm in this post title. Why is it strange to see a woman feeding her baby from her breast? We’ve all been babies and if not all, most of us have been nursed by our mother’s breast at some point in our lives. It’s sad that something as natural as breastfeeding had to be deemed “legal” in the first place. I don’t feel any different now that breastfeeding in public is legal in all 50 states. Heck, I didn’t even know it…
