Veggie Fueled Mama

At first, I wasn't even sure I wanted to try for a second child because I could not imagine having to share my heart

I know we are all feeling it in one way or another. The stress this pandemic is causing. I believe some of it is exaggerated (not the severity of the virus o...

I was dreading it, but we did it. Specifically, I did it. I survived. We traveled to see my parents, and that meant flying with our daughter for the first ti...

My daughter is 15 months old (on the date of this writing) and she's not quite walking on her own yet, though she has made many strides over the last few wee...

Well, this is the time for milestones! A recent major one was celebrating our daughter's first birthday. Shortly after that celebration, our daughter began h...

Almost a month ago at this point, we celebrated our daughter's first birthday. We had a very, very small party a few days before her actual birthday. While h...

Since becoming a parent, more things used to stress me out than they used to. Which probably makes sense and it probably happens to a lot of parents. Those w...

Raising a vegan child comes with its own challenges, but so does raising a bilingual child when your spouse doesn't speak the language.

As Easter was approaching, I was inspired to write this post because Easter provides many opportunities for people to connect with animals. I'm sure we've al...

This post was inspired by a text conversation I was having with one of my baby's daycare teachers, and I think it's a good follow-up to my last post, which w...

For as long as I can remember, I knew that, if I ever became a parent, I didn't want to be a "helicopter parent," one who hovers over her child at every turn...

On March 5, 2014, I went vegan for Lent and thought I'd give it up on Easter. I wanted to see how difficult it was and how I felt not consuming any animal pr...

As I mentioned in my very first post, I knew if I had a child I would want to raise him or her as a vegan. Well, here we are, almost 8 months into my daughte...

**Before I get too far into this post, I'll put this out there for anyone who doesn't know: there can be a huge difference between something that is vegan an...

I knew from the beginning that I'd be going back to work after I had my baby. Even when I was on maternity leave and would get sad at the thought of leaving ...

Ask anyone who has had a baby if she has had any issues with postpartum self-image. If she tells you she hasn't, she's lying. There’s a deep, dark voice in a...

Not every mother wants to breastfeed, and not every mother is capable of breastfeeding. Then there are breastfeeding mothers who under produce, and there are...

As I have written before, there is a spectrum for most things we do based on what we believe, and medication is no exception. So what do you do when the medi...

From my experience, new moms are given some basic information about how to care for a newborn and keep him or her alive and thriving but very little, if any,...

When you're at the hospital, you have this wonderful option of allowing them to take your baby to the nursery so you can sleep. Not everyone takes advantage ...