Pregnancy & Postpartum

When it’s my turn to help plan a baby shower, my event-planning background comes in handy! For even more ideas, I recently received some tips and tricks from the amazing Boston Moms team to ensure a fun, memorable, and...

  SEASON 02: WICKED GOOD PREGNANCY | EPISODE 05 Feeding Your Baby with Nurture by NAPS We know that one of the most stressful decisions a mom can make is how she will feed her baby. On today’s episode we are hearing...

SEASON 02: WICKED GOOD PREGNANCY | EPISODE 04 Two Lives Forever Changed By Surrogacy with Ashleigh Donahue + Emma Swartz Welcome back listeners! We have covered such a wide variety of topics in our Wicked Good Pregnancy series, and today's show...

SEASON 02: WICKED GOOD PREGNANCY | EPISODE 03 Pelvic Floor Therapy with Dr. Kaitlyn Labberton of ReclaimHER Hi, Wicked Good Momcast listeners! We hope you are enjoying our Wicked Good Pregnancy series as much as we are. We are halfway through...

SEASON 02: WICKED GOOD PREGNANCY | EPISODE 02 Fertility and Family Building Support with Resolve New England Welcome back listeners! On this week’s episode of our Wicked Good Pregnancy series, we are discussing fertility and family building support with Resolve New...

SEASON 02: WICKED GOOD PREGNANCY | EPISODE 01 Interview With a Doula Featuring Dashanna Hanlon To kick off our Wicked Good Pregnancy series, we are talking to Boston Mom’s writer, and certified local doula, Dashanna Hanlon. Dashanna owns and operates Caring...

Welcome back to season 2 of the Wicked Good Momcast with your hosts, Shannon Gibson and Meghan Block!  Season two of the podcast will be intentionally shorter than season one. In 2023, our seasons will each have a theme that...

Pregnancy is a beautiful experience. It is also very physically demanding, and having older children only adds to the exhaustion. However, despite mom's tiredness and inability to care for the family in the ways her non-pregnant self could, the...

Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month is particularly difficult for me and the many others out there who have experienced this type of loss. Once I went public with my experience with recurrent pregnancy loss, I heard from countless friends...

I recently came across a "get ready with me" video where a new mom was getting ready for her first post-baby date night — in full glam. I was happy to see she was prioritizing herself, getting out with...

Content warning: This post discusses pregnancy and infant loss.Today is the first anniversary of the worst day of my life. On this day last year, I announced on social media that my baby had been born but was not alive....

After more than two years of searching, I finally have an appointment scheduled with a therapist. The search itself has been an exhausting process on top of everything else I'm balancing. Yet here we are, and I’m thankful to...