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Hospital Packing List for Mom, Dad, and Baby

August 31, 2022 by valplowman

The must-have items to pack for your delivery. Everything to pack for mom, dad, and the baby! Hospital Packing List for mom, baby, and dad. Know what to pack to …

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Categories Pregnancy Tags postpartum 17 Comments

My Journey to Health and Self Advocacy: Part 1

June 17, 2020 by valplowman
Family of four

The path one mom took to figure out what was wrong with her health and how she is advocating for herself and addressing those health problems. By Alyssa Hulme This …

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Categories Motherhood Tags depression, Guest Post, postpartum, womens health Leave a comment

Postpartum Depression Can Happen To Anyone

June 9, 2021August 28, 2019 by valplowman
Woman sitting on swing with her head bowed in sadness

Postpartum depression takes over your life and lies to you. Read all about one mom’s experience with postpartum depression with four babies. by Tiffany A. Winkel Nutter I remember the …

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Categories Motherhood Tags postpartum 2 Comments

Babywise, Act 2, Scene 1: What is this?!

October 7, 2022July 20, 2017 by valplowman

by Ashley Bellis Two sons ages 4 years (J1) and 1 year (J2)   This time last year I was writing a Babywise success story. I was proud of my accomplishments …

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Categories Babywise Benefits Tags Babywise Success Stories Week, emotions, postpartum 4 Comments

Accepting and Loving Your Postpartum Body

July 15, 2019April 9, 2015 by valplowman

A big thanks to Emily for this wonderful post on getting to a place of accepting your post-baby body. You can see me over at FaithfullyInfertile talking about ages for …

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One mom’s experience with postpartum depression

August 17, 2019May 13, 2014 by valplowman

I am excited for this guest post today. This is a topic I have wanted covered on my blog for a long time. I hope this post can give you …

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Categories Motherhood Tags depression, postpartum 2 Comments

Postpartum Real Life

May 21, 2019December 9, 2013 by valplowman

Did you know (and most of you reading this are parents so you do) that after you have a baby, your life is different forever? I think a lot of …

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Valerie Plowman

Valerie Plowman, known as "the Babywise Mom", is the happy mother of four children. She has been helping parents with their parenting concerns since 2007 and loves helping others absolutely love being a parent.

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