At my 34-week prenatal appointment, I had a growth scan done just to make sure the baby was growing well. He was perfect but he was facing the wrong way. The little guy was head up in a complete breech position. At my 33-week appointment, my doctor and I had already agreed that given my…
10 Items to Help Through Pregnancy
Making life is hard y’all and anyone that tells you any different is lying to you. There’s aches, pains, food aversions, wardrobe malfunctions, sleepless nights, and all manner of gastrointestinal distress. I wanted to share with y’all just some of the items that have helped me overcome some of the more common pregnancy woes. PharMeDoc…
Second Trimester Recap
Everyone talks about how great the second trimester is because your morning sickness goes away (hopefully) and you get your energy back. While that’s true I found the second trimester to be a time filled with anxiety. I was already nervous about everything given what had happened last summer but my doctor just kept finding…
Walmart Maternity Finds
If you’re on a budget and expecting, it can be really hard to justify spending over $50 on one maternity dress. At the same time, if you’re anything like me, the bigger you get the more you want to look cute to minimize any insecurities you might be feeling as your body rapidly changes. I’ve…
Amazon Maternity Finds
If you think shopping for clothes is hard, just wait until you get pregnant, then it really becomes a challenge! Your body is changing on a daily basis, you may be feeling the most self-concious you’ve ever felt, and what felt comfortable yesterday today feels like a vice. I always thought I’d look so cute…
Affordable Maternity Wear
You find out you’re pregnant and you’re sooo excited about this little person that’s growing inside of you. A few weeks go by and those favorite jeans of yours start getting tight. At first, you’re looking forward to finally buying some maternity clothes and then you see the price tag on them. “I’m supposed to…
Movie Review: Captain Marvel
**This Review will Contain Some Spoilers Turn Away Now if You Want to Subject Yourself to this Movie Without a Fair Warning** I have watched every Marvel film that’s been produced in the last two decades. As a kid, I was a closeted comic book geek; mostly because my mother thought that comic books were…
I’m Pregnant! First Trimester Recap
After miscarrying in July, you can read more about that here, we decided that we would wait 3 months before trying again. I set about getting back in shape and went to the gym pretty much every day. My period returned like nothing had happened and I continued to track it to make sure we’d know…
Do You Want to Be Strong or Thin?
A lot of women spend their lives wanting to be and thinking about being thin. They look at the scale and judge their progress, sometimes even their worth, by what the scale says. As a teen I was naturally very thin, some might have even described me as scrawny. On more than one occasion I…
Why I Decided to Go Back to School
I remember pretty vividly orientation for law school. Being told that if I wanted to do something easy I should go to business school. Well, I did the hard thing. I was trained to think in the most negative way. I was taught to think about worst-case scenarios, duplicity, and adversaries. My training has made…