MOM HONESTY

Birth plans are nice, but sometimes babies have their own ideas about how they want to enter the world.

Pregnancy and deployments are hard. While our experience with our first wasn't ideal, we were lucky in so many ways.

We learned the hard way our baby wasn't a fan of the beach and when traveling with an infant, keep expectations low.

As a first time mom, I wished I had felt less pressure to exclusively breastfeed and less failure when it didn't work out quite as planned.

Postpartum is a stressful time, and bonding with your newborn doesn't always happen the way we expect.