My Recovery & Postpartum Necessities

I felt like when I got pregnant, everyone talked about what pregnancy is like for all 3 trimesters and what delivery is like (the good, bad and ugly) – but not a lot of people talked about what postpartum was like on their bodies. And surprise surprise, it was one of the biggest parts about […]

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Tips from a New Mom

As a new mom, I know not all tips work for all people. But I was always itching for tips from other moms that I could try out when I became a mom – anything to help make the days (and nights) easier, right? I wanted to put them into a blog post for other […]

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My Labour & Delivery Story

I wanted to document my labour and delivery story for other mom’s to be, but also for me to look back on since I know I’ll forget a lot of this! While I was in the hospital, Pete took down notes so we could recount exactly what happened, and I’m SO glad we did. Before […]

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Penelope’s One Month Update

I have no idea how a month has passed already, but here we are – Penny is officially one month old!! This has been the craziest and most fulfilling month of our entire life. I wanted to share a little update on how our first month as a family of 3 has been – read […]

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Nursery Tour

Welcome to Penelope’s nursery!! If you didn’t already know, I gave birth to our baby girl Penelope on February 10 – you can check out my quick post here and check out my Instagram for updates. We had such a fun time planning and designing her nursery while we waited for her to arrive. Our […]

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Meet Penelope Jean!

Just wanted to pop on here really quick to announce the arrival of our sweet baby girl – Penelope Jean!! She was born February 10 at 4:22pm, weighing 8lbs, 13oz. We are SO in love, and can’t get enough of this little peach. We’ve been taking our time soaking up all the Penny time we […]

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WELCOME TO OUR BLOG!

I’m Rachel – a 27 year old living in Ontario Canada, and main contributer of this blog. My partner Peter and I (that’s us up there!) just recently added a new member to our family – our baby girl Penelope, and this blog will be following along our journey through parenthood! I’ll be sharing everything […]

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Third Trimester Update

We are in the home stretch!! I am almost 37 weeks pregnant and I seriously cannot believe it. These past 8 months have flown by – our little girl is going to be here so soon! I decided to update the blog name to reflect our growing family & the style of blogging I’ll be […]

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Second Trimester Update

I can’t believe I am in my third trimester!!! It’s officially 28 weeks into my pregnancy, which means we have less than 12 weeks left until we meet our little peanut (how is this possible?!).

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Pregnancy Must-Haves

I am just over 25 weeks pregnant, and wanted to share my favourite things so far since being pregnant. It’s a mixture of clothes, supplies and other things!

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