Babies

There are a million questions when it comes to what to put inside a diaper bag. Do I pack my stuff in the diaper bag as well? What do I really need in my diaper bag?

This event is for pregnant women and mothers parenting children ages zero to two — foster and adoptive moms included.

With the baby stage in my past, I feel as if I can catch my breath again. I am beginning to have a taste of what life is like outside the realms of the baby stage, and I gotta say it is not bad. 

As a toddler mom, I LIVE for nap-time each day. After dealing with milk spills, epic tantrums, and super smelly diapers, it is the time each day that I have EARNED. Time for me to work, eat, sleep, or...

Then I had my first baby. And you know what I found? Breastfeeding was so hard. Physically hard. Emotionally hard. That baby had a terrible latch. I couldn't pump enough milk to cover the bottom of a bottle. I was exhausted and hormonal. And I knew that all of those breastfeeding supplies meant nothing if I didn't have the one thing I really needed . . . a healthy dose of plain old stubbornness. 

My first go around with the beauty of breastfeeding was a big fat horrible painful hot mess (literally hot, it was summer). If fact, one week in, I was so frustrated I wrote an angry and embarrassing blog post about...

Donor human milk is precious, lifesaving nourishment for premature and critically ill infants. Here at Mothers’ Milk Bank of North Texas we work with 600 to 650 donor moms each year who donate their excess breast milk, allowing us...