How to keep your sex drive alive during pregnancy

Let’s be honest: sex and pregnancy aren’t always two words pregnant women want to hear in the same sentence. Sex isn’t always a priority when dealing with fluctuating hormones (estrogen and progesterone in particular), changing bodies, nausea, acid reflux, new aches and pains, and all the other fun shifts that occur during pregnancy.  Apparently, some women experience a major increase in their sex drive during pregnancy leading to the best sex of their lives. Yes,...

your growing family

My last baby just turned one and I didn’t expect it to be so bittersweet

I am 100%, hands-down done with having babies. Done, done, done-itty, done. The shop is well and truly shut. I’m excited for this next chapter of my life, getting to watch my two girls grow up and start preschool, big school and beyond. I can’t wait to watch their sisterly bond unfold while they become their own little people at the same time.  I’m excited to get my body back. Not in a physical look-at-my-ripped-arms kinda...

Co Parenting

10 things you should do when going through divorce and separation with kids

Separation and divorce can be an extremely emotional and often distressing time for a child to navigate. The world they once knew can be turned upside down and their brains often don’t have the ability to properly process what it means. Kids dealing with divorce can often feel a range of emotions including shock, anger, upset, guilt and fear. Many will often worry if it was something they did to cause the split or for...

Your Partner

5 important ways dads impact their child’s development

We talk a lot about skin-on-skin for new mothers but we know this is equally important for the father or partner to share with the new baby. Forming that connection from day 1 can help nurture a strong bond as the child grows.

relationships

Parents apart: Living away from your children

Parenthood is such a diverse experience and families in 2022 come in so many different shapes and makeups. For some parents, part of parenthood means living away from your child for extended periods of time and a big question or source of worry is how to stay connected with your little one while being apart from them. Furthermore, due to societally held ideas about what it means to be a family, many parents who live...

Your Partner

The go-to guide for partners during the first year of parenting

Bringing a baby home from the hospital is one of the most significant moments of your life. It’s been 9 months of your partner being pregnant… hours of watching them in labour and giving birth, and well frankly, a baptism by fire for those first few days in the hospital. There’s so much build-up and so much focus on the baby’s arrival – that the reality of bringing the baby home can be a shock...