Author Archives: Ali Bateman

How To Really Help A New Mom?

Do you remember the first time you visited a friend or loved one in the hospital after having a baby? Maybe you weren’t able to meet their new bundle of joy in the hospital– which means that you were probably invited to be a guest in their home days, weeks, or months after mama delivered […]

TV Time Take 2

If you’ve been following Vai’s parenting blog for a while, you’ve probably stumbled upon Heidi’s popular entry about TV time, especially as it applies to toddlers. I’m making a case for reopening this conversation because things have changed, man! 2020 has DONE THINGS to us parents. We’ll be sitting around a picnic table at a […]

What’s With All These Infections?

Approximately a decade later and it’s still the year 2020. We’ve been through it all these days, especially if you’ve been cursed (oh did I say that, I meant blessed) with a toddler during these trying times. As if struggles with career, possible homeschooling, and running out of toilet paper aren’t enough, some of us […]

Meditation

It’s been almost a month since I spilled my guts about postpartum anxiety and how it’s affecting our society in a big way. I’m here to remind you that PPD and PPA are very real (and curable) mental conditions that require a medical diagnosis. Now that that’s out of the way, I’d like to spill […]

Pandemic and Postpartum Anxiety

The Irony of this title has me feeling a little uncomfortable even as I write it. “Pandemic and Postpartum Anxiety….” If you had told me as little as a year ago that these two would be my current reality, I would have laughed. Hard. A year ago from this day I was riding the high […]

Get Outside, Mama

Cheers to week three of shelter in place here on the central coast of CA. Am I the only parent looking for any and every excuse to get out of the house? We’re out of self rising flour (that I’m not even sure what to do with?) I’ll go to the store. The dishwasher is […]