Hello and Welcome!

I am passionate about supporting new moms because when you bring your baby home it can be a shock.  It certainly was for me.

Reading shelves full of books about birth did not prepare me for bringing my beautiful son home.  I needed concrete tips and techniques and I needed them fast.

The myth is that when you have a baby, your life is filled with joy as your instinctive mothering skills blossom to handle any mothering challenge.  The truth is that new motherhood is both blissful and exhausting.  It's easy to talk to people about the blissful moments but who do you talk to about the exhaustion and the overwhelm?

“Does anyone else feel this way?”  I wondered.  Where had other mothers gotten the magic “Mommy dust” that gave them the secrets of how to get their baby to sleep or how to make transition times easier.

In the early days of motherhood, most of us have physical challenges and we are all tired.  You can't help it as your baby is up and then back down at unpredictable hours.  And if you are breastfeeding, you're usually on call.

In addition, there are the hormones!  Our progesterone is crashing as it readjusts to our monthly cycles, hair is falling out and I had so many night sweats I thought I must be going through menopause.

Then there are the emotional changes to deal with.  There's a new person in your home so both you and your partner are adjusting.  You are the Mommy now and the rest of the family is getting used to your new role as mother as well.  Many of them have opinions that we care about and we all want to be sure we are good moms.

The intellectual challenges are enormous as the weight of your new role and responsibilities opens to you fully.  One day I realized, “Wow, the buck really stops with me.”  What an awesome responsibility.

Finally, there are spiritual dimensions to mothering that run deep and can be extremely difficult to articulate.  We join with our past and our future as well as with other parents in ways that are wonderful and complicated and simply cannot be prepared for.

Is it any surprise then that most, if not all, new moms have something called "unwanted intrusive thoughts?”  Thoughts, like the fear your baby will stop breathing, fear you might fall down the stairs when carrying your child, and so on are entirely normal.  Not surprisingly, as new moms we are hyper-protective of our small babies for the first few months of their lives but these thoughts and fears can be very stressful for us.  Many of us, like me, go through higher anxiety levels known as the "baby blues".

In short, becoming a mom is not easy.  We need support.  We need knowledge and we need new skills.  That is what you'll find here.

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You are not alone.  If you have come to this site, then you are reaching out and looking for information.  That means, you are already a good parent and I'm committed to supporting you in developing your own parenting style and becoming the best mommy you can be.

Thanks for being here.  Blessings on your journey…

- Amy

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Specials thanks to the medical professionals of Eastern Maine Medical Center and Children's Miracle Network Hospitals for saving the life of our son.  We donate 10% of whatever we make to these organizations and encourage others to support the positive people and organizations in their lives, too.

Click this link to learn more about, or donate to, Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.