My journey at UAB Women & Infants Center started in March of 2022. I had two back-to-back miscarriages, one in November 2021 and another in February 2022. I did not want to wait for a third miscarriage to happen....
Megan is a heart transplant recipient who is unable to carry her own child due to her transplant. She was able to choose from surrogacy, adoption, or fostering. This is a Q&A about the beginning of her surrogacy journey...
As I sit here in a coffee shop, in my athleisure wear and mom bun, I think to myself, “am I a cliché?” “Former interior designer and blogger turned stay-at-home-mom finds herself blogging once again,” my caption would read....
Birmingham Mom Collective has the answers to all your burning postpartum questions thanks to three of UAB's top women's health experts: Isuzu Meyer, MD (Urogynecology), Audra Williams, MD (Obstetrics and Gynecology), and Kristi Gulledge (Lactation).
We are grateful they took...
Before I got pregnant, I was always on the fence about whether or not I would breastfeed. That's an odd stance to take considering how fervent people usually are one way or the other. Despite some more recent #fedisbest...
The Trimesters of Motherhood.
Each one comes with its challenges and joys. Every woman who has been fortunate enough to carry and birth a child has a different experience with how they navigated each of those three month marks. After...
Postpartum Depression (PPD)
Two words that completely changed my life. Before my diagnosis, I knew the basics about PPD. I had no issues with mental health after my first son and during the joy-filled months I prepared for my second...
Realistic Expectations
Before I had kids, I imagined the bliss of a happy couple and a sleeping baby, just like you see in the diaper commercials. Then I started working as a Mother/Baby nurse as an impressionable 22 year old...
Today marks the start of National Infertility Awareness Week and the beginning of our annual "Lullaby Wishes" series. Infertility affects one in eight couples in the US, and while no two paths are the same, it is typically a...
It’s strange to think about, but it’s been five years since we started trying to conceive. We've now gone through three years of fertility treatments. Last year when I first wrote about my infertility journey here on Birmingham Mom...
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