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How We Introduced Death to our Toddler

In my last post, I shared about our recent losses within the family and how it’s been a difficult time. While being pregnant and grieving has certainly been a new territory for me, something else that made it hard was introducing death to my toddler. Having lost my brother when I was 19 years old, my […]

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Dealing with Grief during Pregnancy

It’s been a really long time since I last sat in front of a keyboard to share an update about our life. The last time I wrote here, I was in the throes of weaning my toddler and still very sleep deprived. W is now 3-years-old, registered for Kindergarten in the Fall and growing like […]

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Night Weaning a Toddler

I was hesitant to write this post. Depending on the company you keep you can be faced with lots of judgment when it comes to baby sleep and weaning. Everyone has a different comfort level, parenting style and, well, child. So you do you. I’m writing about this topic today just in case someone else […]

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The bittersweet of parenthood

Our son recently just turned 18 months! The second year has been interesting, and full of developments and changes. They’re still kind of babies, but also toddlers. I will fully admit that months 13-16 were not my favourite ones. I found that transition period of baby to toddler difficult. My son got 9 teeth in that […]

Getting on the Same Page for Family Expansion

When my husband and I started dating, and discussions became more serious, we both were very much ready to enter the family zone of our life. We wanted time to establish ourselves as a couple, get married, buy a home, etc. But we both knew it was something that was important to us and high on […]

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A Year of Reflection

I always knew I would be one of those moms. The ones that felt heartbroken over how quickly her baby was aging. Turns out I know myself super well. Looking at pictures of the end of my pregnancy and those first days together as a new family are so intimately magical to reflect on. What a […]

The Year that Wasn’t – Reflecting on Having No Maternity Leave in Canada

As a small business owner, I was unable to take the one year maternity leave that the majority of Canadians are entitled to. For many years prior to us trying to have a baby this was a fear of mine, a scary unknown and something that made that leap into being ready that much more […]

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