Well, here I am with raw egg and apple cider vinegar hardening on my face...an excellent skin-softener I swear! I'm Amy...new Mama of a beautiful baby girl, and living on Saltspring Island, British Columbia, Canada. Halfway around the world, my high school friend, Deirdre, is living in the heart of Barcelona, Spain as the new Mommy of a beautiful baby boy.
So we've decided to tell our story. And share it side by side so you get a taste of raising a child in a European city, versus raising a child on a hippy-style island. Restaurants vs Potlucks. Hospital vs Home Birth. Tylenol vs Strange potions concocted in full moonlight!
We have stories of figuring out how to nurse with a nipple guard, and mountain rats stealing soymilk at midnight. We have jet lag stories, and secrets of yoga breathing before going on flights. Life in the city with a new baby, vs life on a small island with a new baby. Working Urban Mommy vs Stay-at-Home Mama Earth.
Some of our stories are SO different, and yet many of our stories are very similar...and the cool thing about this blog is that not only YOU will all get to read our weekly check-ins...we'll get to see our ongoing new lives as Moms and maybe, just maybe, be able to inspire each other a little to be the best Moms we can be.
We promise to tell a bit about our pregnancies, about the fears around our births, and about the wild ride since our babies entered this world. We'll tell it like it is...with all the mistakes, breakdowns, shoe-throwing, diapers-on-the-wrong-way...WHATEVER comes up on this adventure, we'll share it.
Two Moms, one living in a big European city, the other in a small community on a Westcoast Canadian island, share and compare their stories of newborn motherhood...with all the ups and downs of the ride!
Read the latest in a weekly blog by two seemingly different friends...one living the Urban Mommy lifestyle...the other raising her child in Mama Earth style. Every week we'll write about everything from taking herbs during pregnancy, to hiring full-time nannies, AND anything YOU would like to hear about too!
ABOUT "URBAN MOMMY" DEIRDRE...
Deirdre is a Canadian, living the urban life in Barcelona. Married to the Catalan boy she met and fell in love with in Paris eleven years ago, two became three last December with the birth of their beautiful baby boy, Adam Fernandez. Now, life is about enjoying her young family, working full-time, and finding the space for everything in their downtown apartment!
ABOUT "MAMA EARTH" AMY...
Amy lives on a very hippie and creative island named Saltspring in the Pacific waters off British Columbia, Canada. Amy's waters broke at 11:11 pm on the nose, and she birthed in her mountain-top home in a watertub full of crystals. Mayana-Amadelle Raven Kaur Boparan came into the world sucking her fingers and with a gorgeous full head of hair! Her father is of East Indian descent, and we're all strong personalities...a wild mix!
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