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 | 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 | 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 Lisa Van De Graaff | Pregnancy and Your Newborn
MomPower Contributor Lisa Van De Graaff I gave birth to my baby at 2:40am, twenty-seven hours after those first pains I’d waited so long to feel. The contractions were regular from the start, and progressed normally. I rode the waves with the help of my partner, who...