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Postpartum Sanity: How I Prioritize Sleep (While Breastfeeding)

Posted on December 19, 2016 by Jess Connell

  Here’s a detailed look at how, in the first two weeks of breastfeeding, I begin gently prioritizing sleep… so that our whole family (parents, older siblings, and baby included) achieves sanity, sleep, and contentment ASAP. This is the way we’ve done it with all 8 of our babies. Video outline: 1:00- What method we follow…

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13 Reasons I Don’t Mind Being a Chunky, Happy Mama While Breastfeeding

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Jess Connell

  While breastfeeding, I tend to stay (how should I put this?) plump fluffy voluptuous chunky heavier than I’d prefer curvy rounder-than-while-not-breastfeeding soft Yeah, those adjectives work. You might have other words you’d use. Keep those to yourself, please. 🙂  Basically, I’m not the gal the breastfeeding books all talked about. Nope.  I’m the one…

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August Mailbag: Circumcision? Breastfeeding in Public? When Your Child Says, “I’m Bored?”

Posted on August 31, 2015 by Jess Connell

  TO CIRCUMCISE OR NOT TO CIRCUMCISE? Q: To circumcise or not to circumcise? I’m anxious about the subject and my husband and I disagree. What do you guys do? And what were your reasons? Thanks! First, don’t be anxious (this is a biblical command for believers!) and stop reading nonsense anxiety-giving mom stuff on the…

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When Homeschooling IDEALS Collide with the REALITIES of a Large Family

Posted on October 24, 2019 by Jess Connell

Hi Jess, I don’t know if you answer emails like this since you aren’t active on your blog, but wanted to tell you I took your advice to heart and am not blogging. It was the best decision. I had my fourth baby, and I would’ve had to lay down priorities in caring for my family to…

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When Your Home Life Needs a JumpStart

Posted on October 7, 2019 by Jess Connell

Note from Jess: I wrote this more than a year ago, three months after having baby #9.  We’re… barely… creeping out of the postpartum season. Wowzers, things feel overwhelming. I looked around last night and here’s what I noticed: the driveway was a mess. Recycling that hadn’t made it to the bin, toys that were…

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A Hard Year, the Joy of Baby #9, and the Ideas that Drive Us

Posted on August 6, 2018 by Jess Connell

Well, it’s been more than a year since I’ve written here. And a lot happened in the last year. WHAT WE DID, BETWEEN JUNE 2017 & JUNE 2018: Through our extended family, we’ve experienced some life-changing pain– the death of two grandparents, and my brother went through an unexpected divorce. They married the same year we did, and though we…

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December 2016 Round-Up: Podcasts & Posts

Posted on December 31, 2016 by Jess Connell

Well, I had my baby on the last day of November, so this December has been a very postpartum-y month. As you might expect, that definitely influenced what (and how) I shared. Look below for the posts, and podcasts, from December 2016– POSTS Titus 2 Relationships for Military Wives, Missionaries & Frequent Movers Why You…

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17 Ways to Help Your Newborn Calm Down & Sleep Longer

Posted on December 15, 2016 by Jess Connell

So, I just had our 8th baby. Which means… I don’t know everything, but I know some stuff.  There was this time, 14 or so years ago, when my first baby was just two months old, that I went to a birthday/blessing party for a young lady in our church. Right when it was time for each of…

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All The Posts Since the Beginning of Time

Since December 2013, I’ve written hundreds of articles to help moms like you find biblical, practical solutions for their homes, marriages, and families. Sometimes that makes it hard to navigate, and tough to find an old favorite post if all you remember is a phrase or general idea. So here’s the full list. The newest are…

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Motherhood 101: The Class We Never Got

Posted on June 8, 2016 by Jess Connell

Instead of having a good idea of what motherhood entails, most of us learn the ropes of motherhood while we live it out. We’re already in the role by the time we realize we’re almost entirely unprepared for it. This often leads to stress and anxiety for new moms as they not only take on the hardest, most…

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