What is a doula? Is a doula only for natural birth experiences? How do I find the right doula for me? Can I afford a doula on a tight budget? My good friend, Lindsey Bliss, co-director of Carriage House Birth in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, answers these questions and more in a fun, girl-talk conversation with me … (Read More)
Blissful, pain-free, ORGASMIC… I’ve heard all of those terms used to describe natural childbirth, and every single one of them has made me roll my eyes (and then gag a little). I’ve done the natural thing – at home, with the midwife and the doula – and there was nothing blissful about it. Well, until … (Read More)
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Thank you for all your messages of congratulations! If you missed my pregnancy announcement, you can see it here. I open so much of my life to you every day, so it was hard not to share that Mr. Borucki and I were trying to have another baby. I had all the same nervousness and … (Read More)
Have you had a baby (or maybe a few babies), and you feel like your abs will never be the same? Or are you just thinking about getting pregnant, and you’re totally freaked out about what growing a baby will do to your perfectly flat belly? I’ve been in both places… a bunch of times. … (Read More)
So it turns out that boobies ARE a big deal. Whenever I hear someone spilling some silly rhetoric about breastfeeding being a private moment that should only be shared between mother and child, I reply with “they’re just boobs people, get over it.” But unfortunately, that just isn’t so. People get really freaked out! It’s … (Read More)
Nothing has made me so consistently excited from childhood into adulthood as getting surprises in the mail. Then there was that ten-year period of time when I had the hottest mailman on the planet… oh, Tony. Yeah, I said his name. He knows how hot he is. Every desperate housewife in the neighborhood waited everyday … (Read More)
I posted my first workout video on YouTube in June 2009 as part of my Fitness Diary series on my wedding blog. And as the verse goes, “First comes love, then comes marriage…” then comes the online pregnancy announcement. A growing belly that I thought would nip my dreams of building a fitness career in … (Read More)
Summer is nearly 6 months old and I’m still completely pregnancy-obsessed! Add yoga to the mix and I’m in total heaven. The beautiful and very pregnant Ashley Albrand has shared an amazing gift with all of us in the form of an entire pre-natal pregnancy routine on video… for free! I organized it in a … (Read More)