Pregnancy + Postpartum

If you are new to the Auburn-Opelika area, you may be curious about what our area has to offer as far as women’s services. I want to give you a few ideas of resources I used as a new...

Expecting a baby is an exciting and uncertain time for most moms. Moms that have recently given birth or are currently pregnant have the added burden of stress and uncertainty that we're all experiencing as we navigate this unfamiliar...

All marriages have their fair share of problems, and our marriage has not always been rainbows and unicorn farts. Imagine a marriage, buying your first home, 2 career changes, and a surprise pregnancy. Any one of those things alone...

I love to shop, but to rewrite a common phrase, I have “Gap Kids taste on a Garanimals budget.” In 2013, shortly after my first child was born, my mom and I braved the local semi-annual consignment sale. And I...

 There is a lot going on when you are getting ready to add a new member to your family. The more people you have, the more complicated the dynamics can be. During the times our family was growing by...

I am sitting in church. When I’m here, I like to be able to completely focused on worship, but today there’s at least part of my brain that is thinking about my phone, where it sits tucked under the...

*If you have not yet read Part I, click here before continuing to Part II! “Babe, can we talk?” is the infamous phrase that although only contains three words, carries the weight of a serious conversation. My husband had...

Several of my friends and neighbors are pregnant or just had a baby, and a couple of them will be having their first child this year. I started thinking about what advice would have been helpful to me before...

A loooooong time ago, I loved to read. I read voraciously when I was a kid, staying up well past my bedtime to read just one more chapter of whatever book I was reading at the time. When I...

Guest Submission by Amy Wadsworth Register: I was having a great day. I had attended an event with the Chamber of Commerce and sat with two friends. We had shared stories about rush (because it was that time of...