Mere's Friday Finds: the AAPI experience, parenting advice (the good kind!), date night ideas, and more!
The inquiries are rolling in for my discounted Real Postpartum sessions! If you’re local to the Twin Cities and you know someone who would enjoy preserving a bit of the rawness and intimacy of their postpartum time, won’t you tell them about our April Offer? Onto the links!
While digging through our archives for a project, I came across this image from one of our 2019 births. Isn’t it cool how you can see the caul stretching across baby’s head?
A helpful visual on how we can now gather, according to the CDC. I’m still feeling too cautious to do any of this, so you’re not alone if you are also planning to stay hunkered down at home for a while longer.
The Four D’s of bystander intervention
Random acts of kindness
“My daughter sits with me and my adult friends and weighs in on topics like voting rights and storage solutions for the garage. My son reminds me to pick my clothes up off the floor and shut the kitchen cupboard doors.”
I know my partner occasionally reads these posts, so I’m just gonna leave this here :)
Some lovely parenting advice
I would gladly spend some time in this incredible home
I’m fortunate to count myself among the vaccinated, and I found this fascinating
“But humans are social creatures—we tend to construct our identity not only around the things we know or feel about ourselves, but also around the ways in which people respond to us. My babies are almost eight months old and I can count on one hand the number of people we’ve spent time with since they were born. Other than my husband, not a single person I love has really seen me being a mother. This new person I’ve become since I gave birth is a person virtually no one knows.”
I’m hoping to spend some time in the sunshine this weekend. What about you - do you have any fun plans?