Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. Laura Wheatman Hill lives in Portland, Oregon with her two children. She blogs about parenting, writes about everything, and teaches English and drama when not living in an apocalyptic dystopia. Her work has appeared on JSTOR Daily, the Submittable Blog, She Knows, and others.You can find her at https://www.laurawheatmanhill.com/ and on Twitter and Instagram. I spent four years either pregnant or breastfeeding. During the […]
Hi! As you may have noticed if you’ve been on Instagram or Twitter, I’m back from medical leave! My operation was a success insofar as they were able to remove all my fibroids, and my quality of life has been exponentially better ever since. Of course, that doesn’t mean the healing process was easy. There’s a lot I wish I had known about the days immediately following my surgery, so […]
Editor’s Note: Some of the below images may be NSFW. The lingerie industry doesn’t do a very good job of talking about – or showing – pregnant bodies. Of course, there’s maternity and nursing lingerie, but most major retailers (Figleaves, Nordstrom, HerRoom, Bare Necessities, and so on) don’t use pregnant models to sell these products. We know the body undergoes a massive amount of transformation during pregnancy, and many pregnant […]
Maternity and nursing bras have come a long way in the last several years. It wasn’t so long ago that there were very few options, and these were bulky, utilitarian, and thoroughly unattractive. Years ago when I was pregnant, I actually burst into tears when the woman at the maternity store shoved a handful of beige, matronly bras in my face. Not only was I wrestling with the huge changes […]
Disclosure: This blog post contains affiliate links. When it comes to the wide world of intimate apparel, maternity options are often “left out in the cold” so to speak — not just in terms of bras and panties, but also swim, hosiery, nightwear, shapewear, and pretty much everything else. While there are definitely more maternity options in the marketplace than ever before, they’re still treated as a sort of supplemental […]
