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Simply GNV-Birth & Maternal Health Where women’s health and writing coexist. Writing and client education for female founded women’s health businesses.

Virtual fertility awareness and birth education classes offered.

06/09/2026

save this for your TBR !!📌

Each one of these serves a different purpose:

Decoding Boys gave the science behind the way their brain works— think multiple aha moments throughout this read.

No Longer Little gave science + emotional connection to a growing boys biologically and emotionally—definitely a tear jerker for me.

Awakening Wonder not specific for boys but helped me approach my boys in a more gentle way fostering their curiosity and encouraging them to pause. MASSIVE perspective shift for my homeschooling season.

Winning the War on Worry doesn’t need a synopsis other than this one quote that I think about DAILY; “94% of the things we worry about never come to pass”. Biggest sigh of relief there because I worry about my boys a lot. Wooosaaaa😮‍💨

Have you read any of these? How did they hit for you?

Books for boy moms | moms who read | adolescent boys | boy moms | motherhood

06/07/2026

how to grow your own🥔👇🏽

But first of all, you can garden anywhere; townhome w/ no backyard, apartment balcony, single family home w/ a small siding, or big house on a bunch of land. Don’t let the fyp of homesteading fool you. It is possible.

We recently moved from a quarter of an acre to a townhome with a deck and one of the things I was worried about was losing the ability to garden, but we didn’t. It’s not about the space you have it’s how you use it🙌🏽

Second, potatoes are easy and I’m by no means a pro gardener that knows all the things, I’m just a girl that thought I needed 5 acres to grow food and decided to change my mindset and try growing potatoes on my deck as a homeschool project for my pre-schooler.

This is one of my favorite low-maintenance garden projects as a work-from-home homeschool mom.

🥔 Growing golden potatoes in a bag is one of the easiest ways to grow food at home.

Here’s how:

• Fill a grow bag with 4–6 inches of soil
• Place seed potatoes cut-side down
• Cover with soil
• Water consistently
• Add more soil as the plants grow (“hilling”)
• Harvest when the foliage dies back

A simple, family-friendly garden project with a delicious reward at the end. ✨ I can’t wait to harvest them🥔

Grow your own food | growing potatoes | homestead | homeschool projects | gardening

add this to your reading list if you’re planning to give birth one day (!!)as a maternal health and body literacy educat...
06/03/2026

add this to your reading list if you’re planning to give birth one day (!!)

as a maternal health and body literacy educator + writer—these made me question everything in all the right ways so I recommend them as informative and engaging material for intended, expecting, and/or curious moms or those just interested in the rich history of maternity care.

✨Pushed by Jennifer Block

Read this if you want more informed choice, self advocacy skills, and access to a wide range of practical and birth options. This is a great new one to read because it gives you the necessity of doing a risk assessment, but also acknowledges how important the hospital is in high risk situations.

✨The Surprising History of How We Are Born by Tina Cassidy

Love this one be because instead of arguing that one setting is best, the book gives you a wide variety of ways women have given birth across different eras and cultures. This for me, this makes home birth, birth centers, and midwife-led care seem less unusual and more like valid options worth generally exploring.

✨Witches, nurses, and Midwives by Barbara Ehrenreich & Deidre English

If you value bodily autonomy, informed consent, and individualized care this quick read will feed your curiosity. You’ll find yourself drawn toward birth settings where you retain greater control over your experience. For context, this was written in the 70s and obstetrics and midwifery have significantly advanced 🙌🏽 I’d recommend it as a feminist historical and political critique rather than a balanced history of medicine.
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What reading did you do before you had a baby or what are you reading to make sure you’re informed?

Sharing reads with each other is the modern form of women telling stories around the fire as far as I’m concerned😉so share away!

Birth books | maternal health | curious moms | moms who read | girls who read | bookstagram | birth bookstagram

Vitality was my word for 2026!✨“Vitality is the state of being strong, active, and energetic. It refers to the physical ...
06/01/2026

Vitality was my word for 2026!✨

“Vitality is the state of being strong, active, and energetic. It refers to the physical and mental capacity to live, grow, and develop, as well as the power to endure and sustain existence.”

Each of these books I read in early 2025 and they were such an integral part of choosing this word.

After loss and becoming undone over and over it’s a complete testament to the fact that creativity, purpose, and pursuit of those qualities is embedded in all of us.

I try to weave this word in lightly to my childbirth and new parent classes, setting the tone for what’s coming so that they anchor into something real or tangible between the cracks of who they are now making space to become. It’s a constant reframing of what’s happening to them into who they’re becoming in the depths of labor and giving birth or in the 2am feeds feeling far away from civilization.

Sometimes we lose sight of these parts of ourselves when we’re swallowed whole by the roles we fill, but understanding our bodies, emotional literacy, and curiosity are all paths back to what I would consider vitality.

Have you read any of these? What would you add?

I’ll keep up the recs for curious moms and women who want to experience vitality too✨
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Vitality for moms | book recs | curious women | maternal health

05/27/2026

The way my brain chemistry was altered✨

I’ll tell you why:

The Four Agreements for me is a grounding reminder to stop carrying around perceptions, guilt, and “supposed to be’s” that were never mind to begin with. It is always a nice reminder esp when the kids are in moods to remember to never take anything personally. It’s helped me show up in ways that I had always felt were difficult because of my past but are made possible when I remember the agreement to always do my best. There’s so much here to unpack but my mom brain feels so warm and cozy when coming back to this short but valuable read.

The Alchemist wow…idk where to begin. I started this when I was feeling disconnected from myself in the midst of anxiousness, depression, and loneliness. It was a great reminder that my purpose, intuition, and dreams are God given desires because I make the intention to live in divine alignment. Even in the middle of raising babies.

101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think is perfect for the thoughtful, health aware mom, but still wants to go deeper and more towards vitality. Many of these essays help reframe anxiety, certain habits, identity, and emotional overwhelm.

These 3 are staples that I come back to over and over🤌🏽

Have you read any of these?
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books for moms | moms who read | bookish moms

05/25/2026

This is MINE but let’s be honest—little hands will be here to rummage soon🤣

Happy snacking!✨
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Mom snacks | wfh mom | homeschool mom | nourished mom

05/22/2026

The Wind in the Willows🐀🐸🦫

I’ve been increasingly passionate about helping my boys fall in love with reading as an effort to keep them off screens and build imagination and wonder✨ and this was a sweet cozy story about friendship, truth, and courage!

This story was a perfect read-aloud for both my boys (10 & 5). The age gap needed something engaging with a story anchor for my oldest and the youngest loves the constant adventure of these little creatures✨

It’s set along the riverbank and story follows gentle Mole, a wise Rat, a Badger, and the wildly adventurous and sometimes troublesome Mr. Toad.

It’s illustrated well and the scenes described spark imagination and creativity which I love! You watch the little creatures navigate friendship, home, curiosity, and growing up. It’s full of cozy picnics, woodland homes, little adventures, and meaningful conversations that we all enjoyed talking about after each read.

I found the chapters to read almost like bedtime stories which was good for the little one. Younger children are drawn into the charming animal characters and playful adventures, while older kids can appreciate the humor, deeper themes of loyalty and belonging, and the rich, imaginative language.

The chapters read almost like little bedtime stories, making it easy to enjoy slowly as a little family rhythm🕯️

05/20/2026

Let’s chat neuroplasticity, but for moms!

Comment READ to get the link to the full article📖

After birth, a woman’s body and brain go under a biological metamorphosis to support the caregiving of a brand-new baby. The brain literally changes in neural structure to become attuned to infant cries and cues and enhance responsiveness. This shift comes as a vital component in infant survival.

✨Motherhood is peak neuroplasticity

✨Brain fog/mom brain is purposeful

✨So we’ll just never be the same. Cool
But in the best way possible.

✨Self-awareness is a refined skill which takes place in the brain

✨“Slow motherhood” is not what you think

✨This is a long term transformation

✨Birth experience matters

So let’s change the negative “mom brain” conversation from flaw to superpower ⭐️to

I keep wondering why being “healthy” feels so hard and why pregnant women are feeling crippling overwhelm with having he...
02/05/2026

I keep wondering why being “healthy” feels so hard and why pregnant women are feeling crippling overwhelm with having healthy pregnancies and advocating for and ultimately making their own birth choices.

When you have one trusted industry dismissing your symptoms and needs and influencer filled spaces telling you to decline every intervention possible but take their supplement protocol, it’s no wonder we burnt out from being healthy.

I’ve sat with hundreds and hundreds of women many with one common underlying factor: indecision. Indecision based in fear of not knowing enough, a belief in not having the tools they need to make educated decisions, and a belief that health is just out of reach unless they do what someone else who knows better says to do. But this isn’t true!!

And for that, I’m starting a series of empowerment. A curriculum to guide women through body and emotional literacy to have better experiences across maternal health. Experiences where we ditch anxiety from indecision and embrace the tools we already have to wake up and take accountability for our bodies by bringing health home.

This curriculum is going to take you through the art of noticing, identifying, connecting, remembering, and responding all through the path to body and emotional literacy.

More details in my last two letters in I Mean Honestly w the 🔗 in my bio. We start Feb 19🎀
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