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What My Baby Taught Me | Breastfeeding + Formula

Breastfeeding is a journey. A long, constantly-evolving journey. Sometimes breastfeeding looks like these photos — beautiful, peaceful, connected. And sometimes it looks distracted, squeamish, impossible. This is the start of a new video series I’m doing, titled “What my Baby Taught Me.” The focus will be on lessons learned from my boy, shared in a minute-long […]

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Looking Back on 2017 | My Best Year Ever

Happy almost 2018! I am so excited to be spending it at home this year for the first time in years. Jake and I are cozy cozy cozy at home with our boy, and it feels really calming. This year has been so beautiful, so tiring, so euphoric, so challenging. Everything in my life dramatically […]

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Dear Baby | A Letter to My Boy Six Months In

Dear Baby, Here I am, six months in, staring at you. Your eyes find mine, and that toothless smile of yours starts to stretch wide. You have arm rolls and a round belly and a head full of hair. Some days you look a lot like me. But on most days, you look just like […]

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This is 30 | My Thirtieth Birthday Party

Thirty is a big birthday (in case you missed my post — click here for my ‘thirty things I learned by thirty’ post). I had debated for months on what I wanted to do — a low key dinner at home, a weekend trip away, or a fun party with all my favorite people. Ultimately, […]

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Baby BOO’s | My Boy’s First Halloween

I’m currently in a candy coma (while Evan is in a milk coma), while going through photos from this month. It is so much fun to celebrate holidays with a babe. There’s this infinite amount of joy to see the world new again. It makes every experience — from seeing the leaves shift color, to visiting […]

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Three Decades In | Thirty Things I Learned by Thirty

I turned thirty this month. Admittedly, I started lathering my skin in coconut oil and cleaning out my closet of high stilettos that scream twenties, because what new mom wears 5-inch heels?? But as I found myself staring at a sheer crop top I once rocked when I was 22, I started to question whether […]

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