January 17, 7pm Jamaica calls me. Regular contractions for the last hour. She’s trying different positions but can’t really find a comfortable one. She’s watching Wheel Of Fortune to distract herself. I’m driving to a surprise birthday party with a vegan, gluten free cake I baked and packaged in a box from Jamaica’s bakery. I […]Read Post ›
I love everything about this picture. Mama rocking the double pump under a swaddle while feeding her newborn some of the good stuff. Her new husband entertaining a bigger babe and puppy, all in the family bed. With Gumby. It doesn’t get better than this.
I’m sitting here giddy at 5:47am on Saturday morning, listening to my baby talk in his crib (he’s been waking up early lately for some reason). I just got home because I was attending my first birth as a doula. It was as magical as I thought it would be. I saw that I had […]Read Post ›
Jamaica, of Jamaica’s Cakes, is a High Pastress and a wonderful friend. Almost exactly a year to the day after Ian’s arrival, Jamaica will welcome her first baby. I am beyond excited about this, and Ian and I were invited to the reveal of baby’s gender today. So we packed up the diaper bag and […]Read Post ›
Mandy Unruh 