Pregnancy + Postpartum

Good chiropractic care starts at a young age. Does that surprise you? It certainly surprised me until I was pregnant with my first kiddo. But I started experiencing low back pain early on and decided that I wasn’t going...

We are still trying to come up with words to express how completely blissed out we are that we are expecting our fourth baby in October! In February, we were able to read two pink lines on that infamous stick....

Last month, my husband and I had an opportunity that seemed hard to pass up. Our friends were renting a home in the Caribbean and had invited us to come and join them. That meant we would have a...

I am a note taker. In meetings, in church, when reading a book. And apparently I can now add luncheons to the list of places you can find me taking copious notes. Back in April, I had the privilege of attending the...

Where you deliver your baby is one of the biggest choices you make during pregnancy. At UnityPoint Health – Iowa Lutheran Hospital, we’ve made our care more beneficial for both mother and baby. Since November 2014, Iowa Lutheran has been...

On December 7, 2013, my husband and I were on a date before going to a Christmas party. Shortly into our dinner conversation, I mentioned to him that I had been thinking about another baby and how it had...

Des Moines Moms Blog has been intentional about celebrating moms this month by sharing our writers' birth stories and experiences. As we celebrate Mother's Day and remember becoming mothers, our stories bring joy, sweet memories, and some of our...

Crazy hormones. Low energy. Nausea. Mental fatigue. Being pregnant definitely has its drawbacks. I’m pretty sure twice during my pregnancy the baby was turned completely sideways. It wasn’t exactly comfortable. Although I did spend the last few weeks of my pregnancy...

This post is part 6 of 6 in the series How I Became a Mother. May is the month to celebrate mothers. I have written before about that day I found out I was to become a mother, and maybe...

This post is part 5 of 6 in the series How I Became a Mother. I will never forget that cold December day when I stood in the bathroom holding the positive pregnancy test I had dreamed about seeing for...