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My arms grow tired as I rock you back to sleep in the darkened bedroom, the only light coming from the dim glow of your monitor. This isn’t the first time I’ve rocked you to sleep tonight, and I doubt it will be the last. It’s only three A.M. you see, and you’ll likely wake […]
November 17th is World Prematurity Day, which is a day dedicated to bringing awareness to the causes and effects of babies born too soon. According to the World Health Organization, more than 15 million babies are born prematurely each year world wide and approximately 1 million die from complications of prematurity. Here in the United […]
Houston Moms is grateful to have partners like The Addice who continue to provide exemplary care and experiences for our parents.I had just attended my first midwife visit at The Addice birth center in January before the world went to chaos with COVID. Having made the decision to use a birth center with my second […]
I am an oldest child, so I have never known what wearing hand-me-downs feels like. Growing up, they carried a negative connation, and I was thankful for the birth order in my family. Wear someone else’s stain ridden clothes? No thanks. Hand-me downs-conjure up the image of just that:: stained, pilled, and likely out-of-style clothing. […]
We are proud to partner with The Motherhood Center to share with Houston Moms how they can find the perfect child care specialists for their families.When I was pregnant with our first baby, I wanted to find a local resource that was all encompassing in terms of education, knowledge and expertise surrounding all things baby […]
Every year, the world sets aside the first week of August as World Breastfeeding Week to recognize breastfeeding and boobs and their contributions to society by way of providing nourishment to new generations of baby humans. Given this mammoth contribution, I am not sure the girls actually get their due credit. I mean, they get credit… […]
The fall of 2019 was clearly a busy time for many couples, judging by all of the babies I am seeing making their appearances this summer. It’s a super weird time to have a baby, and even though “quar-times” feels pretty similar to living in perpetual newborn land, there are definitely things that are different […]
If my future self had told my younger pre-children/early 20’s self that I would be making homemade baby food for both of my boys as infants/toddlers, my younger self would’ve laughed until those boot cut jeans I was wearing finally went out of style. You see, I am NOT very domestic. I avoid going into […]
This post is sponsored by All Good diapers. All opinions are proudly our own.Diapers are something that I had strong opinions about before our first was even born. I did countless hours of research on diaper materials, environmental effects, alternative methods… you know, all the things first-time moms stress over. Ha! We registered for cloth […]
A Tale of Two {Very Different} Births St. Patrick’s Day is the feast of the saint who famously converted Ireland to the Catholic faith. It is a day normally celebrated all around the world, typically with crowded bars, street parades, pints of beer, shots of whiskey, and lots of green. A day when we’re all […]
