Hope for the Holidays (2022)
“When I'm down, and I'm lost, and I'm tired. When it feels the whole world is on fire. Close my eyes and imagine a choir. Even when I...
“When I'm down, and I'm lost, and I'm tired. When it feels the whole world is on fire. Close my eyes and imagine a choir. Even when I...
Amazon packages like these arrive in homes across the globe daily. (And let’s be honest, I’m always excited when packages arrive!). 📦 I...
I'll always wonder who you would have been. Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day 2022. 🌱
People have often asked me over the years how and why I do some of the things that I do. How can I go back to the hospital where I have a...
“Today, August 22nd, is National Rainbow Baby Day in the US. This is a special celebration with a note of solemnity. Mothers across the...
Hey baby. 5 years ago tonight, I was laying, waiting, in my hospital bed. Knowing I would meet you for the very first time the next day....
Dear Mama-to-Be, This holiday basket is for you. It’s a small, simple gesture, that I hope will bring you some light during a dark...
What does Hope look like to you? Difficult to quantify, I know. And sometimes it is tough to actually come by or truly feel. Especially...
Keeping it real, and reflecting on today’s difficult day in parenting, for parents across America. Today (12/17/21) was a charged and...
Certain sights, smells, songs, people, and days in my life will forever remind me of the Christmas season that I was antepartum. The...
November 2017- 1 year after my antepartum holiday hospitalization and our son's delivery & NICU stay, I was driven by several compelling...
All along our goal was to get me to 34 weeks- to December 30th. The days and nights spent inching along towards that target date felt...
You rarely hear the stories of the women who “might not” or “almost don’t” survive pregnancy (also called a “near miss” pregnancy) . At...
”I just want a coffee, a really good coffee!”. I said that exact phrase many times during my antepartum experience. I think it symbolizes...
As I alluded to in my “Part 2” post, once I got the Accreta diagnosis, I needed to get Baby Boy to 34 weeks. No small task. After my...
I ended up staying in the hospital for 5 days the initial time I was admitted (I would wind up staying longer the second time, after...
I had never heard of Placenta Accreta. It was a condition introduced to me at 29/30ish weeks pregnant, by a high risk maternal fetal...
There are SO many incredibly important awareness themes this month…probably most notably Breast Cancer awareness month. Every single...
(Original written and shared on social media 11/18/17). When I was growing up...in high school, college- I just always thought "yeah,...
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