Better nutrition during pregnancy is a two-part process: eating healthy & supplementing with a multivitamin. We’ve got some easy healthy meal ideas to help you eat better, plus we’ve found the best prenatal vitamins for you and baby!
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How to Make Your Own Toothpaste with Essential Oils (or Don’t)
A few years ago, I switched from using a popular name brand toothpaste (that I’d been using my entire life) to using a natural toothpaste with essential oils. While I loved the natural toothpaste, I didn’t love the price tag or the fact that I had to belong to an MLM company in order to…
Mother-Daughter Date Idea: DIY Mud Mask
When I was a tweenager, I LOVED “pampering” myself with mud masks and face peels. When my oldest daughter turned eleven, I thought it would be fun to use the all-natural DIY mud mask recipe that came in my January essential oil DIY subscription box. It was a fun mother-daughter date idea to celebrate my…
Essential Oils for the Angry & Frustrated Mom
Even the best moms can lose their tempers. And when a happy mom transitions into an angry, frustrated mom, she needs to have an arsenal of resources to help her reduce her stress, balance her emotions, and get back to being the best mom she can be. These essential oils for the angry & frustrated…
A Busy Mom’s “Time of the Month” Must Haves
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #PeriodConfidence #TryTheDivaCup #CollectiveBias Interested in trying The DivaCup? Hover over the photo to click through to Walgreens.com and buy it! Being a busy mom doesn’t often leave me with a lot of time for self-care, but once a month,…
Getting Started with Essential Oils: Mom’s Essential Starter Kit
I love my essential oils. But getting started with essential oils took me a LONG time. I did my research, I talked to people who I knew personally who used essential oils, and I spent hours feeling overwhelmed by all the options. Which brand do I buy? Is one better than another? Which oils are…
Benefits of Oil Pulling with Coconut Oil
Recently, I posted a photo of myself with a spoonful of coconut oil, and it created quite the buzz. Why? Because I was getting ready to oil pull, and many of my friends had no idea what oil pulling is or the many benefits of oil pulling with coconut oil. Since so many people had…
5 Tips for Helping a Gassy Baby
When a baby is gassy and uncomfortable, it can affect the whole family. A gassy baby can be tough, especially if the baby is uncomfortable all night long, resulting in no one getting any sleep. But this doesn’t have to be the case. Here are five tips for helping a gassy baby so you can enjoy your baby again.
3 Steps to Lifelong Fitness
Many people have a short-sighted approach to fitness. They look only as far as their next goal which may be to lose weight, train for an event, or get a better body for a vacation or reunion rather than making lifelong fitness a priority. When you incorporate fitness into your everyday life, you’ll live longer, be…
5 Ways to Avoid Brain Fog
After having multiple babies, I was walking around with something I thought was “mom brain,” but I discovered was really just “brain fog.” I was constantly in need of a caffeine fix to combat it, but I didn’t like the effects the caffeine was having on my body, so I started researching the root cause…