Health + Wellness

With the start of the new school year approaching, I know many of you might be thinking about what to have on hand for the ever important after-school snack! When the school bell rings it's been a few hours since...

When our first child, a daughter, was born, she was perfectly healthy and beautiful. My husband and I were in total awe of her. The love I felt for her was so strong that my stomach would ache when...

Summer is an wonderful time to enjoy the outdoors, so why not have a barbecue? Grilling is an excellent way to cook food in the summer, because you can avoid heating up your kitchen. Grilled foods are also healthier...

It was the best of times and the worst of times. Last year was the first time I experienced cold and flu season as a mom. Even with a flu shot, it was intense and I didn’t understand the waves...

National Nurses Week is May 6-12. It ends on May 12, which is Florence Nightingale's birthday, the founder of modern nursing. The nursing profession is truly unique with all the different types of nursing. Nurses are in hospitals, nursing...

When you do something often enough, you don't even realize it's not "normal." That's what sports and being active generally have become for my family. Without realizing it, my husband and I have created a culture of movement in...

Brain health is a big topic in the world of health care. Most of us moms know how easy it is to lose precious brainpower after having kids. The older we get, the more our brains need a boost....

    Let’s be honest. Everyone needs a life reset in 2020! But even in more “normal” years, most of us need to do some type of reset. The change of seasons is usually the best time to make changes in...

This winter has been brutal. Other than three very underappreciated sick-free days, someone in my family has been sick since the New Year’s ball dropped. This was after we passed around several bugs this fall. It is fair to...

“We’ll test you again for gestational diabetes this time at about 16 weeks so fingers crossed you won’t have it again and then we won’t re-test until 26 weeks,” said my midwife. With my last pregnancy, other people seemed...