So you’re ready to return to work and you want to keep your breastfeeding relationship going. That’s awesome! It is absolutely possible and pumping breastmilk at work is easy to do when you have the right set up and the right tools at hand. If you’re new to this, or if you just want to …
Krystal Kleidon
Your new little babe has arrived and you’re infatuated with them. You’re tired but you can’t take your eyes off them. You’re emotional and have tears of joy and love and just, well.. tears. You’re recovering from pregnancy and birth and finding your feet as a new Mama. You’re adjusting to your new life, your …
So you have a newborn. And they are so cute, and they smell so good, and they make the cutest sounds ever… and all you want to do is watch them. Your time is consumed with everything baby, you’re still recovering from birth and at times it feels like your body is so foreign to …
Pregnancy cravings strike when you least expect them. When you’re laying in bed at 2am, immediately after you’ve ordered something different for lunch, or when you’re stuck in traffic on the motorway. And you’d do anything to get what you’re craving – regardless of how obscure it is. Pregnancy cravings hit hard and fast. Despite …
Like most mums, I went a little crazy when I had my first baby. I bought just about everything anyone proclaimed I ‘needed’ or that promised to make life easier. For the record, that was a lot of ‘things’. It turns out, I barely used any of them (partially due to my son being in …
I have to admit… I’m quite the minimalist. Not the ‘all my furniture is white and if it doesn’t speak to me I throw it out’ kind of minimalist. But more the ‘do I actually need this’ kind. So when it came to pregnancy, I knew I needed to approach it with the same sort …
For many women, connecting with their baby during pregnancy doesn’t come quite as easily as they thought it might. Perhaps you feel a little awkward during pregnancy, or maybe you feel as though you have to wait until your baby is born to start connecting with them. When I was pregnant, I had debilitating Hyperemesis …
To say I was naive about pregnancy and in particular, the postpartum phase is an understatement. In my defence, I knew my son was going to be in NICU and likely to have surgery and all of our birth prep centred around getting him earthside safely and what was going to happen after that. There …
When you think of what life is going to be like when you’re pregnant, there are all these ideas of beautiful moments with your husband, planning the nursery together, cooing over your growing belly – it all seems like a blissful time. How could you possibly drift apart? But with pregnancy comes all kinds of …
Whether you’re an exclusive pumper or a pump when you need kind of Mama, there’s a certain art to pumping breastmilk that can help you get the most out of your pumping session. Because let’s face it, we don’t want to be attached to that burring machine for any longer than we need to do …