Pregnancy

First things first: mind the gap.  If you've never been to London, you may not know what I'm talking about. In fact, I myself had never heard the phrase until I stepped off the plane in Heathrow airport.  I...

We are in this together. It’s the phrase I’ve heard 1,000 times. It’s the phrase that supposed to sustain us, to get us through. And it does help, it really does. But it’s also true that each of us is going...

As a mom, do you ever just sit back and marvel at the power of your body?  Think about it: for nine months your body nurtured, fed, and grew a baby. Then, after all of that, it birthed a...

I became a mother at 4 a.m., shaking in the bathroom, bare feet cold on the tile, as I read one word instead of two. I became a mother at Walmart, picking out two tiny onesies, pink and blue, for...

(Wanted and Unwanted Opinions & Advice) I am the first one to admit – I am a first time mom and feel completely clueless on what to do with the baby once he gets here. Social media has been a...

I have joined many “clubs” related to having a baby that I’d rather not be in. But none have been extreme cases. My miscarriage was devastating…but I was still a few weeks away from my second trimester.  It took 13 months to...

“You have been pushing for over three hours.  We cannot get this baby out. I think we need to do a C-section.” These are words I always dreaded hearing. It felt like I had been punched in the gut....

I'll be the first to say it: planning a pregnancy is not easy.  Our journey of “planning to plan” started three years ago, when I was 22 and my then fiancé, now husband, was 26.  The medicine that I...

Good Morning Iowa City Moms! For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Robin Boudreau…and I too am an Iowa City Mom. In addition to being a medical sales rep for Medtronic, a hobby photographer, and a...

I have never had anything in my life handed to me. Things never came easy; I struggled in school, I struggled in my home life, in my relationships & within myself. That being said, all of my struggles taught...