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There is not much in this world that can physically shock or rattle my husband. He is a physician and has done his fair share of rotations in emergency rooms and ICUs and has seen a lot of bad sh…um, stuff. So the other night when from the other room I heard a HUGE GASP [...]

Every few months this conversation gets going on Twitter and EVERYONE has something to say about it. You know the one. Goes something like this. A MOM-preneur and a MOMMY  blogger walk into a bar….. (’cause we are allowed to go out you know!!) …cute guy hits on said MOM-preneur and asks what she does [...]

My 2.5 year old daughter is cute. Heck, she is down right beautiful actually. (She has that asian-caucasian mixology thing going on). And on a daily basis I am pretty sure I tell her how beautiful she is. But hold up…. She is also incredibly funny (ask her about her knock, knock joke!), intelligent, curious, [...]

Mamas, hands up if you have any kind of guilty mommy feelings throughout your days? Yup, that is what I thought. I did a little unofficial poll last week after a chat on twitter about a mama wanting to have a glass of wine and feeling guilty about it because she is also breastfeeding. The [...]

Motherhood. A time of great joy and happiness and wonder and also a time of great sacrifice. A time when you really discover what your body and mind can endure and what you really need in your life. I thought about this throughout my day yesterday and came up with my list of What Mama [...]

No, not the ones on your clothing or your car or your purse. I am talking about the ones we give ourselves, the ones others give us, the ones that define us. There has been a lot written this past week about labels and about using our words well, especially when speaking to or about [...]

I read an interesting article in our local paper today and it got me thinking about childbirth and birthing options and what women consider a natural childbirth. I have birthed two children in the past 4 years. And I have always considered my births for both of these little people to be natural. Yet lately, [...]

The other day I spontaneously started crying in my car on the way home from picking up my oldest from preschool. Why you ask? Because I have recently come to the realization that I may actually want to have another child. If you had asked me a year ago if I wanted more kids, I [...]

This is my inaugural post here at Mom Nation, and so I thought, what better topic than the nature of female relationships and friendships. I had the greatest weekend this past week. I went out with three separate and completely different groups of women on three different (and consecutive) nights! For the record, I am [...]

Natasha Chiam is a self-described ‘Lipstick Crunchy’ mama. She loves the earth, is a total hippy at heart, and also loves a great pair of boots and a Coach purse every now and then too! She is happily married to the man of her dreams (seriously, she had a dream about him before they met) [...]