Maintaining our health is one of the major focuses in American households.  We watch and we worry about the many threats that may come our way.  And we know what we need to do to keep our health up.  We need to eat right.  Diet and Nutrition.  The unending story. And the story is no [...]

Seventeen years ago I was told three words that would forever shape my future: You have diabetes. At the time I didn’t think much of it. Gestational onset diabetes, I was informed, affected many women, but only two percent actually continued with the disease after childbirth. Three years later and 11 weeks into my second [...]

My mom always says “she didn’t know I was coming.”  I never really understood what she meant when I was younger.  In my eyes, if you had a belly the size of a beach ball, you should best be expecting your little one at any moment. I know now that A LOT more goes into [...]