by Barbara Buckner Suárez | changes, family, transformation
I took my very soon-to-be 16-year-old son to the local hair salon this week to get his first real haircut. Well, not his very first real haircut. For the past eight years or so, I’ve been giving him a buzz cut in our bathroom as he sits in the tub. Why? Let me be...
by Barbara Buckner Suárez | changes, parenting, power, process, transformation
It’s not a new idea: Pregnancy and birth are powerful, transformative experiences. But I believe this power to transform happens every single time you’re preparing to become a parent, whether it’s your first time or your fifth! Each of my...
by Barbara Buckner Suárez | acceptance, body image, changes, expectation, parenting, reality
(Not my actual belly pooch… I’m brave people, but not that brave.) At my age, my body and I have come to a sort of reckoning. I go to Boot Camp 3x a week and push my competitive self to beat the twenty-somethings in class alongside me and this allows me to...
by Barbara Buckner Suárez | 4th trimester, changes, connection, couple, differences, expectation, love, ready, reality, relationship, sex, trust, vulnerability
As mentioned in an earlier post, Sex Life? What Sex LIfe? Part I, there are many factors that can conspire to make postpartum sex a little bit tricky to initiate. But the good news is there’s only one thing necessary to have a lasting and healthy sexual relationship:...
by Barbara Buckner Suárez | 4th trimester, changes, Childbirth Education, expectation, newborn, parenting, ready, reality, teaching, transformation, vulnerability
There’s an article that I just read from the BBC about a project called “One Day Young” from London photographer, Jenny Lewis, who for the past seven years has been capturing a stolen moment in time in the lives of new mother/baby pairs within 24 hours of birth....
by Barbara Buckner Suárez | body image, changes, confidence, love, transformation
I had two class series that began this past week. Night one, we discussed anatomy and terms using a set of slides that show the changes that occur in a woman’s body from before she was pregnant to just about to pop – 37-39 weeks along. My goal is to have these...
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