These past six months, I’ve been in a complete funk. Is it a third-life crisis? A hormone shift? I’m not sure. All I know is that I’m stuck in a cycle of "what ifs" and a strange, aching discontentment. If you’ve been following my journey, you know my world revolves around my five-year-old son and my two-year-old daughter. When I was pregnant with my daughter, I was certain I was done. I spent 25 weeks nauseous, convinced that the thought of another pregnancy made me want to

“You may feel powerless, but all I see is a woman who is SO in her power that she can show up for the children while everything is burning around her. What is power if not the strength of a mother to keep opening her heart and carrying the light, despite all the wickedness and darkness around her. You may feel hopeless, but all I see is a woman who inspires so much hope and joy in her children all while not knowing what the future holds for them. What is hope if not the voice

Drea : Hi friend! To start out, how did you end up in Durango? Kelly : Roughly twelve years ago, I was needing a change from the Front Range and fresh start. I had a few friends in Durango and an opportunity to house sit, so my golden retriever Cooper and I packed up and left! Coincidentally, I met my husband the night I moved to town and the rest is history! Drea : Adorable! And how did you first get involved with For Love & Babes? Kelly : After the birth of my first son, Ol

If you had knee surgery, you’d be in physical therapy before you even left the hospital. If you tore a rotator cuff, no one would expect you to "just live with it." Yet, when it comes to the pelvic floor—a complex group of muscles that undergoes one of the greatest physical events a human body can experience—we are often told to simply wait six weeks and hope for the best. As a Pelvic Health Physical Therapist (PHPT), I want to clear the air: PHPT is not some separate, myster

Becoming a mother is one of the most transformative experiences in a woman’s life. For many of us—especially first-time moms—the early months can feel like stepping into a vast ocean of information, opinions, and expectations. The internet offers endless advice, often contradicting itself. Family and friends share their own experiences, sometimes helpful, sometimes confusing. With all these voices around you, how do you find your own way? How do you stay grounded in a time wh

Ever feel like becoming a parent changed you? Like all parts of you are irrevocably different? Neuroscience would agree.  When we become mothers and parents, our entire lives and identities shift. Our current world does little to acknowledge the immense changes that occur during matrescence and patrescense: the transition to mother and father respectively.   This experience of becoming a parent is world-shattering and life-altering. And yet, the systems and structures in whic

The Bone Closing Ceremony is a profound postpartum healing ritual with deep roots in the traditions of Central and South America, as well as Mexico. This sacred practice has been lovingly passed down through generations of midwives and traditional healers, who have shared their wisdom and nourishment across cultures and time. At its core, the ceremony is designed to help mothers physically, emotionally, and energetically “close” after the transformative experience of childbir

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To parent a child is to worry. In this culture, fear is built into child rearing right from the positive pregnancy test and before. There...