Prepare for birth I once heard birth compared to a marathon. No athlete would arrive at a 26.2 mile race without training their bodies and mind for the physical exertion ahead. Instead, they would train for months, focusing holistically on what would be required to accomplish this noteworthy feat of strength. Entering motherhood is no …
Made In Brazil My Husband and I are both Americans and had lived in Brazil for two years when we got pregnant with our first child. We’d lived there through the Zika scare and the concerns from family that we would get pregnant and bitten by a zika mosquito at the same time; leading to …
At 11 weeks into my first pregnancy, I was feeling pretty amazing other than some fatigue here and there, My best friend was visiting us in Florianopolis and on the morning of her last day we set off on a hike that we knew had a small waterfall at the end of it. In the …
