Nursing a toddler or full-term breastfeeding can be a difficult season to navigate. Full-term breastfeeding is often described as breastfeeding past infancy or breastfeeding past one. My son just turned 18 months old and we still choose to breastfeed. I figured it was a great time to do an updated…
Category: Natural Mom
Breastfeeding Past 12 Months
I wrote a blog post after breastfeeding my son 6 weeks and thought that was an accomplishment. Then I got to 6 months and felt victorious, especially after all of the struggles we had getting to that point. Now here we are past my son’s first year of life, still…
Natural Ways to Control Stress
One of the things I am most passionate about is helping women find healthy, natural solutions to their struggles in life. I firmly believe that most of the standard American struggles like stress, lack of sleep, obesity, aches/pains, mood/behavior struggles can all be healed in a natural way. Always the…
5 Ways to Make Healthy Food Taste Great
“Healthy food tastes gross” she said to me as we worked through her struggles with losing weight. “I just don’t know what to eat and I hate the taste of broccoli.” I knew I had the answer when she said those words. You see, if you are anything like Chrissy…
Losing My Pregnancy Weight and Healing my Anxiety
I really thought at 6 weeks postpartum I would be back in action and losing my pregnancy weight. Before I had my son, I insisted that the jogging stroller I purchased would be on the jogging trail after 6 weeks. Spoiler alert, almost 11 months later and it still hasn’t…