When I decided that I wanted to have children, I began looking to change careers. I worked in food service and I knew that there was no way that I was going to want to be on my feet nine to twelve hours a day while pregnant. As a bartender, I worked mostly at night clubs, and the hours I kept ...
5 Ways I Made More Money After Each Baby
Keeping Yourself and Your Kids Sane in Stressful Times
The global health crisis has been absolutely insane and stressful on everyone I know, including myself and my family. I find myself going through every kind of feeling that one could imagine--from fear to relief at having a break from the day-to-day and a constant undercurrent of anxiety. ...
Pregnant During a Pandemic? Don’t Change Your Birth Plan Until You Read This
It’s no secret that I’m a huge advocate for natural births, and for home births in particular. With the fear and the number of coronavirus cases rising in New York and throughout the rest of the country, many women are now considering a home birth as they search for alternatives to the hospital ...
10 Steps to Getting Back on Top of Your Resolutions
February was a crazy month in the Cooks-Campbell household, and so, not surprisingly, I find myself needing to reset my New Year's resolutions. It kicked off with my husband flying to Los Angeles to photograph a celebrity event. The day he landed back home, it was his birthday, so I picked him up at ...
Top 5 Post-Baby Workouts
This post isn’t sponsored--I just like working out! But if you use my ClassPass link, we’ll each get $40. I was pretty active throughout both of my pregnancies, but the postpartum period kicked my butt. I thought I had done a pretty good job of maintaining my abdominal tone--turns out, the ...
A Letter to Project Motherhood
I’m not any everything-needs-to-be-perfect mom. I’m just a strung out WAHM who is kinda drowning a little bit. -Allison Cooper, "When Mom Burnout is Your Reality" Allison Cooper of Project Motherhood and I have been friends for years. Our husbands, Chris and Damany, have been best friends since ...
