Coastal Bend Mom Collective

Are you on a hunt for kid-friendly lunches? Parents everywhere are emptying their child's lunchbox at the end of the school day, only to find that their child has not even touched their lunch. The struggle is real, ya'll. I have...

The 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio have come to a close. Many of us have spent recent days questioning our very existence. Michael Phelps has twenty-three gold medals. How many do you have? (The answer is zero.) A 19-year-old is...

The phone call came in June, about 2 weeks after I had accepted a full time teaching job. We had been matched with a birth-mother in Virginia Beach, VA. She was due in September, about 6 weeks into the...

If you have read my journey through infertility, you know that it took seven years for my husband and me to have our first child. So, we wanted to go as natural a delivery route as possible to make...

We are a food allergy family. My husband and I don't eat gluten. I also stay away from dairy and soy. My 18 month old son breaks out almost immediately when he eats anything with soy, egg, or peanut in...

Monday, June 20, 2005 was the date we were to be induced at 37 weeks.  It had been a long pregnancy with one sort of complication after the other, and our baby was going to finally be here.  We...

It’s hot outside. We all know this. Morning showers have been rendered obsolete. Only five minutes outside can trick your body into thinking it’s on fire, and the only way to put out the flames is to produce gallons...

Seven years ago, in a bathroom stall of the four-diamond hotel where I worked as a department head, I learned I was pregnant. Yes, very glamorous, I know! In those days, I was a workaholic. Twelve to fourteen hour days...

I started this post a year ago. I was struggling to find my place in motherhood. I was unsure how to feel like myself again. Prior to having my son, I was physically active. But when he arrived, my physical health...

May 31 is a day that I will remember forever. It is the day I gave birth to my ray of sunshine. The day I became a mom. The road there wasn't easy at all. I was nineteen years old...