Guest Posting: On Needing People
Credit: Black Mommy Circle One of my favorite bloggers journaling her growth as person, mother, writer, and wife Jessica from Mommyhood Next Right gave birth to her second child recently. Because...
View ArticleThe TMI Post or The Art of A Natural Period
Be warned that this will be a TMI (too much information) post, including talk of ladyparts in general, and mine in particular. I haven’t yet posted about cloth diapering, but our 19 month old son has...
View ArticleExciting endeavors
It’s been way too long since I updated the blog. I have great news to share. Jeanine and I expanded the Brown Mamas Breastfeed project into a book and website titled Free to Breastfeed. We’re putting...
View ArticleSloppeh Joes
I’ve tried a couple of vegan sloppy joe recipes, but this seems to be the biggest hit. It also turns out to be the least complicated one, took 10-15 minutes to make. So as a friend recently said: two...
View ArticleOvercoming second pregnancy blues
Here I am 7 months into this pregnancy and only now blogging about it. It’s been a complicated past 5 months since we learned we were expecting. And, I’m ready to start blogging about it. First off,...
View ArticleReal Baby or Food Baby?
I wish there were some soppy romantic story behind the conception of the baby due in January. All I know is that I had a great spring: presented at a conference for the first time, was pampered for...
View ArticleSins of the mother
I gave birth to our second child almost five weeks ago now. He’s an absolute gem. If we weren’t so paranoid about child abductors and internet weirdos, both his and SJ’s photos would be plastered all...
View ArticleMaybe I do have allergies
This weekend, I had the opportunity to visit with one of my favorite families. They, too, welcomed a second baby boy into their family recently. He was doing his newborn sleep all day thing, so I...
View ArticleIs home birth safe for Black women?
To be clear, I am a home birthing mama and wouldn’t have it any other way…unless it involved some amazing tropic setting, ocean water and Sweet Honey in the Rock singing me through my labor. For sure,...
View ArticleLetter to that shaming gynecologist
Dear Dr. Tummings, Today is my son’s 3rd birthday, which means that it’s been almost four years that I’ve neglected to write you this letter. For about four years before he was born, you were my...
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