Category Archives: Women HONORING each others’ choices

Look to yourself – not others – for “approval”

I advise moms to look for what resonates with them and to make the choices that will truly work best for them – regardless of what others think, do, or say. And, this advice is always met with enthusiasm and/or relief. Of course we want to do that. That's the only course of action that makes any…

Loving the Mom that You Are

What I want for the clients of Loving the Pregnant You first and foremost is for each of you to love the pregnant you, to like who you are and how you’re approaching your unique pregnancy journey. You won’t enjoy all moments or everything about being pregnant, certainly. Yet, with a conscious intention to discover…

When you trust, yet others don’t

Jennifer was 44 years old when, in her words, she “finally had the husband and circumstances in which she wanted to have a child.” She immediately saw her doctor, whom she’d been seeing for years and trusted completely. She did what her doctor told her to do throughout the process of both getting pregnant and…

When you shift what you want, it doesn’t have to invalidate what you wanted

When you shift what you want, it doesn’t have to invalidate what you wanted. What?! I know, that’s a bit convoluted. Stay with me… Let me explain with an example, because this is one that I think we can get tripped up on in a BIG way. I recently did (okay, maybe I’m still a little…

Honoring each others’ choices

I talk about it a lot: the pressure we can feel from others, from “society,” from the statistics and articles we read, and from ourselves to make all the most appropriate choices during our pregnancies. We feel pressure about doing pregnancy the right way. This pressure is actually why I have a job. It’s why I’m here expounding about…

When to tell others the BIG news!

Every woman has a different thoughts and rationale about when she’ll share the news that she’s pregnant. Many don’t want to start telling others until after the likelihood of miscarriage is down to a really low probability because they think it’s a jinx or they worry about the possibility of having to tell all the people in…

You know best…even when “society” might disagree

Naoli is a midwife and she talks of the amazing depth of maternal instinct that we all have that gets ignited during pregnancy. She believes it’s most useful for us as pregnant women to expose ourselves to a wide range of advice and then apply only what feels useful to us. She says that we…

You agree that your pregnancy choices are YOURS to make…or do you??

You may agree with the idea that you, and only you, need to be fully comfortable with and understand the choices that you make regarding your pregnancy. And sometimes you may agree…only in theory. In reality, you might be dealing with people who question decisions you’ve made, who tell you about why another course of…

The benefits of being vulnerable

From time to time I expound about the benefits of being vulnerable… about the potential relief, understanding, ideas, and/or sympathy that’s possible when you open yourself up in some way and share something that we often don’t. It’s a risk, certainly. And, I’ve heard many accounts of how it pays off. I want to tell…

How did you love the pregnant you?

My intent in writing the Loving the Pregnant You book and blog is to provide ideas and inspiration to expectant moms by sharing the experiences of the women who’ve gone before them. I think it’s highly valuable to be able to be a fly on the wall of other people’s pregnancies, without any advice giving, to…