Disclaimer: Before I begin, this is just my experience — and every pregnancy is uniquely valid. If yours looks or feels different from mine, that’s okay. Neither is better or worse. Pregnancy is so deeply personal, and each experience deserves to be honored. That’s...
The changing of the seasons has been harder than I anticipated. Every morning, I walk my dog, Oakly — the Tennessee air no longer cold but a lovely briskness that pairs perfectly with the soft, rising sun, a nod to the warmth that will come later in the day. It’s my...
If you’re new here (and you are, since this is only the third post on this blog), let me very rapidly catch you up: I was in the midst of training to qualify for the Boston Marathon, the day before a benchmark half marathon race, when I found out I was pregnant. (If...
If you would’ve told me 18 months ago that I’d be spending my weekends prepping a nursery, attending labor and birth classes, and Googling how to keep a newborn alive instead of training for a spring marathon, I probably would’ve laughed. Or maybe just stared at you...
