by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Pregnancy and Your Newborn
MomsGetReal is proud to share the journey of Guest Contributor Wanda Morrissey as we join in the fight for increased support and awareness for preemies during Preemie Awareness Month. Jeffrey did very well on CPAP and after a couple of weeks was switched to low-flow...
by Shadra Bruce | Pregnancy and Your Newborn
MomsGetReal™.com is proud to have MomPower Contributor Wanda Morrissey sharing her story with our readers. The challenges faced by preemie parents require extraordinary strength, unlimited optimism, and undaunted courage. We’re grateful to Wanda for helping all...
by Shadra Bruce | Pregnancy and Your Newborn
MomsGetReal is continuing to share the full story of Guest Contributor Wanda Morrissey’s story in honor of Preemie Awareness Month. For more information about how you can help, contact the March of Dimes. Although Jeffrey was feeding well and gaining weight,...
by Shadra Bruce | Pregnancy and Your Newborn
MomsGetReal™ is grateful to Mama Posse Founding Member Wanda Morrissey for sharing her story with our readers about her experience with having a preemie. Her son Jeffrey was born 14 weeks early, and over the next few days, we will share the story of his struggle to...
by Shadra Bruce | Teens and Tweens
Happy Halloween! Our village had trick-or-treat last night, avoiding any complication of pagan holiday versus religious belief. For the first year of her entire existence, Anika opted not to be a princess. Last year, she was a Renaissance princess. The four years...
by Shadra Bruce | Stress Management
Happy Birthday Mom My mom would have had her 60th birthday today. I have been sitting here contemplating, trying to decide the best way to commemorate my mom’s birthday. I have decided that nothing I can say or do can possibly describe how it feels to be without the...
by MomsGetReal Guest Contributor | Love
Guest Contributor Life is so precious. Why is it that sometimes it takes a major tragedy to help us realize that? It is so important to remember the one true gift we all have is life itself. It is so easy to get caught up in the sort of everyday things and forget that...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Self-Improvement
Let’s Get Real with Kelli Lund The other day, I was talking with a friend about a tv show that became my little “guilty pleasure” over the summer. I told her that I knew it was a horrible show and that I would never let my kids watch it. I’ve been thinking...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Pregnancy and Your Newborn
We’d like to thank Guest Contributor Wanda Morrissey for sharing her story. Over the coming weeks, we will feature more about the experience Wanda had with becoming a mother 14 weeks early. I remember reading somewhere that there are 13 million premature, or 10%...
by Shadra Bruce | Health, Let's Talk
I think making memories with our children is one of the most important things that we can do in their childhood. Whether it is establishing family traditions around the holidays or a simple cherished bedtime routine, it is important for children to know and feel their...
by Shadra Bruce | Teens and Tweens
My son loves the rock band KISS. He comes by his love naturally – his father has loved KISS since he was a child. Parker has been listening to KISS roughly for his whole life. When I was a child, I was not allowed to listen to the band. My mom condemned them as...
by Lisa Van De Graaff | Self-Improvement
Let’s Get Real with Lisa Van De Graaff AutumnIn Oriental Medicine’s Five-Element Theory, it is the time of Metal. Specifically, the peak time for the Lung Meridian (which brings in the new) and the Large Intestine Meridian (which eliminates that which we...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Pregnancy and Your Newborn
MomPower Contributor Kelli Lund Stretch marks. If you’re anything like me, you were left with these constant reminders of just how swollen and big pregnancy made you. I know some women have great, elastic skin and others swear by cocoa butter. But I’m not...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Stepparenting
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce With the holidays coming, I have offered some advice to biological moms and dads out there about how to make sure your children don’t suffer through the sometimes very difficult tug of war of the holiday season. Even more important...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Parenting
Getting Real With Shadra Bruce The holiday season is coming, and I’ve discovered over the years that as much as most of us enjoy holidays, they are not always very easy for anyone involved, whether you are mom, dad, or step parent. The silent tug of war that...
