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I just defaulted to thinking that Dreft was THE option for baby laundry care and I added it to my registry without a second thought. So, a week before I’m supposed to deliver, I am preparing my daughter’s laundry. One snag, I woke up to a post in a black mom group I’m in about how Dreft is toxic. So I do my googles to find that some of the ingredients in Dreft were linked to cancer. So I gather up my unused bottles of Dreft and head to Target where I’ve done the math and foun

The VERY FIRST thing I’ll say about a maternity shoot is that it should be fun and a celebration of your baby(ies.) I let myself get wrapped up in an idealized concept of how things could be until life smacked me and I was told she might need to be delivered early. My pregnancy has always been designated a high-risk pregnancy, and I have had increased monitoring the entire time. When I was told that she was not growing sufficiently, they were suggesting that she would need to

I used to really beat myself up about how long it has taken me to accomplish anything of note. I’ve been working on my memoir and my editor read an excerpt only to respond with how impressive he considered me. It’s hard to pat yourself on the back, unless you’re a narcissist. I’ve aleays been a “humble brag” kind of woman. Most of my life experiences get viewed as “why me?” initially until I reframe the experience as “why not me?” What causes me t reframe it in those terms? K

Look, I said that things can and do change. Whether for the better or worse, you have to roll with the storm. From yesterday to today, what changed? My mother has accepted another job and now, we are both employed full time and I have my consulting business and she, her law practice. It means coordinated child care, it means greater flexibility in what I am able to achieve for Mir, it means health and life insurance, and other benefits for the both of us on top of Medicare, a