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As a new mom approximately 21 years ago I can remember feeling so all alone and sad, I was was embarrassed to tell anyone my feelings or that I sat and cried all day and night. I was sure that something was just wrong with me and that I was a terrible...

The launch of OhBaby! magazine had us up late nights, feeding {ourselves} at odd hours and sometimes in tears… kind of like when we were transitioning into our role as new moms. So we turned to the support of each other – just how the support of our...

Being a new mom is tough, but making new mom friends can feel awkward, unnatural, and can take lot of energy that we already lack. When I had my little one, I had a ton of girlfriends, but there was one problem: they lived at least 45 minutes away and...

Humans get trained and educated in many area of their lives—playing sports, driving, learning languages—but there’s no scholarship in parenting, a role that demands dozens of endlessly adaptable skills and instant expertise in keeping a brand new human...

Today we all know about networking and how important it is. In the early 1990s, when I was a new mom, the whole networking concept was relatively new.  “It’s not what you know, but who you know,” was a phrase that was tossed about, but there wasn’t really...