COMING SOON 🇫🇷 Speak French? Join me and my co-hosts @drnealbarnard @mimies_delicacies and @cliniquerenversante tomorrow for the launch of our new program! Click the link in my bio to sign up for UN MONDE SAIN so you don't miss it! // Les amis, cliquez le lien dans ma bio pour nous rejoindre. On s'amuse trop tout en devenant de plus en plus sain. Allez, ça commence demain ! @lecomitedesmedecins

NEW ON THE BLOG: 12 Things that I WISH I Knew *Before* Having a Baby 🐣 If you’re here reading this, then chances are, you’re on board with the whole “sanctity of life” concept, i.e. life is sacred. And though this is certainly a concept we can all get behind (especially vegans), I don’t think I truly understood this until becoming a mother. That is, at least in my experience, becoming a mother completely crystalizes just how profoundly precious each. person. is. What I’m trying to say, and what I forgot to mention in the video below, is this: You realize so deeply that each human roaming this planet is the son or daughter of someone, and started out cooing and waving and giggling, just like your child. Your reverence for life expands. Your capacity to care expands. Your emotional incontinence when your child is ill or hurt or sad is just… full on. For example, my son currently has a cold, so last night we had to use the NoseFrida to relieve him of his congestion. He looooathes NoseFrida, and as he screamed, I sobbed. Just sobbed. I absolutely cannot STAND for him to be so upset. I’ve never experienced compassion and care and emotion this acute before. (So… add this to my list of “Things I Wish I Knew Before Having a Baby,” please. Thanks.) 😮 Other Postpartum Surprises😮 So in addition to this wild ride on the empathy rollercoaster, there are some other delights that I experienced postpartum that I wasn’t expecting – from being a smelly-smeller to sudden uterine contractions to some conversations that I’d wished I’d had. But it’s all in the video, of course! (LINK IN BIO!) Here’s hoping that these tips help you be less blindsided than I was when your baby comes Earthside. Cover 📸: @blue.locket

Quelle bonheur de discuter avec Ann de @veggiemagnifique ! Elle nous partage son expérience et ses astuces afin de maintenir une santé optimale durant la grossesse. Un sujet qui suscite beaucoup d’interrogations. Ann est la preuve vivante qu’une grossesse végétale bien planifiée apporte une quantité de bienfaits. 📚 Parmi les ressources que Ann à cité vous retrouvez le livre “Vegan sans carences” de Dr M.Keller & E.Gätjen. Sur le site de Ann veggiemagnifique.com vous retrouverez également de précieuses informations et enfin nous en parlerons de manière plus approfondie de ce sujet et de la santé des femmes en général dans notre programme Un Monde Sain dont le 1er épisode sera diffusé le 10 Janvier. #grossessevegan #plantbasedpregnancy #alimentationvegetale #vegan #plantbased #pregnancy #healthypregnancy

🇫🇷 Pour mes ami.e.s francophones ! Demain! Sur le compte @lecomitedesmedecins avec la magnifique @mimies_delicacies on fait un live sur la grossesse vegan et comment être une maman saine. 19h France, 13h heure de l’est 🤰🏻 Rejoignez-nous demain ! 🇺🇸 If you speak even a lick of French, join us tmrw 1pm EST — we’ll be talking about how to have a healthy vegan pregnancy and how to be a healthy mama.

NEW ON THE BLOG: Vegan Baby-Led Weaning with @vegan.kids.nutrition 👶🏻🥦 When it came time to start introducing solids to my son, I have to admit… I was a little overwhelmed. First off, I felt like his little system was so pure and unfettered by anything except breastmilk, that I didn’t want to mess it up by giving him the “wrong” foods. Maybe I was a little overly protective. Maybe I was overwhelmed. Or maybe I’m just a rookie mom, and this is all so… new. All of the above, surely. But, friends, let’s just say it: modern parenting is overwhelming. In bygone days, I feel like parenting was so much less of a “philosophical” undertaking, dividing us into groups and subgroups of how we choose to parent. It was more intuitive, less divisive, and less… judgey. (Am I right, seasoned mamas out there?) And, frankly, this quest for the “perfect parenting philosophy” can leave you feeling a bit paralyzed. Am I doing it all wrong? Is my kid going to end up in therapy later if I start with avocado instead of sweet potato?!?!? I meeeeeean, I’m exaggerating, but that’s kinda what it feels like sometimes. See, before you become a parent, you’re blissfully unaware of all the different “schools of thought” that will soon come into play. Do you co-sleep or use a crib, or even a Montessori floor bed? Do you nurse on-demand or have feeding times? Do you sleep train or perish the thought? To pacify, or not to pacify? Is your head spinning? Mine is. 👶 Starting Solids – BLW Versus Spoon Feeding When baby reaches around six months of age, parents are met with another big doozy of a dilemma… Do I start with solid foods? Or fancy purées made specially in my food processor? And what is this baby-led weaning (BLW) thing I keep hearing about? ⭐More on the blog/YouTube, link in bio! 👆🏼

NEW ON THE BLOG: 8 Things I Don’t Use with My Baby 👶🏻🧴🚫 A few months ago, I shared my minimalist newborn essentials with you. First-time-mom-newbornland can be such a slippery slope for stuff, and suddenly you’ve amassed copious amounts of baby thingamabobs and “must-have” parenting paraphernalia. My point with sharing my minimalist newborn essentials was this: You may not need all the stuff they say you do. To further illustrate this idea, today I’m sharing some big go-tos that many parents use, that my husband and I have deemed either unnecessary or not aligned with our parenting style and philosophies. So here are eight things that we don’t use, and we’re certainly not worse for the wear {...} Read/watch on the blog, link in bio!

Yum! Always thrilled to find new plant-based eateries like @toast_sandwich_shop ! 🥪 This little hole-in-the-wall is also gluten-free if you happen to be glutinous-minimus. (And, honestly, their bread was flippin’ fantastic for GF bread — bravo, team, bravo! 🍞) Will be back again soon. 👋

Wearing my most TOFU-looking top for the occasion... 😁 Check out the full version on the blog and on YouTube – link in bio! 👆 #tofurecipes #bbqtofu #tofuscramble #veganmousse

NEW ON THE BLOG: 5 EASY TOFU RECIPES 😋 If you know anything about vegans, then you know that we love tofu. So much so that it’s become sort of a go-to stereotype among the non-vegans… and with good reason – we eat a lot of soy! (I mean, after all, there’s a whole industry of t-shirts with smiling squares of tofu, certainly catered almost exclusively to vegans.) The only problem with this stereotype is that, from what I understand, many non-vegans imagine us plant-eater types gleefully slurping down bland white gooey stuff. No, dude. Tofu is the vehicle for flavor, friends! As I explain in the video, tofu is a blank canvas for you to add your own style of gastronomical gorgeousness. Feeling BBQ-y? Tofu’s got your back. Craving a lil’ chocolate fiesta? Tofu, baby. {Read more/watch the video with the link in my bio!} ⬆️

No matter how much you prepare for the postpartum phase, if you’re a first time mom, it’s likely that you’ll find yourself in a perpetual state of exhaustion, tears, and stupefication. At least some days. (Or all days.) Yes, your new little bundle of miraculously multiplied cells is now outside your body and even the wiggle of his fingers and toes makes your heart burst, but let’s leave that aside for a moment… Because in addition all that splendor, you’re dealing with so much new that your head is spinning {…} Read/watch more on the blog, link in bio! #postpartum #newmom #newmomtips #breastfeeding

NEW ON THE BLOG: Postpartum Tips for New Moms — aka What I Wish I Knew🤰🏻 Here’s the truth about postpartum… You are under siege. Now, it’s a beautiful kind of takeover that involves a lot of sweet sweetness and awe, but you’re also almost guaranteed to feel an overwhelming sense of, well, overwhelm. (Not to mention, you’re probably at the beginning of an existential identity crisis.) You’re up to your elbows in dishes, bedside table snacks, and doubts. You’re sore, and you’re ravenous. You’re floating on a surreal cloud of bewilderment, and… you’re drowning in fatigue and your own cotton-pickin’ tears. Unfinished chores stare you down all day, and you have zero capacity/energy to do anything except tend to your baby and try to sleep. If only you could shower. If only you could fix the mess. But, no. You might as well surrender here, Mama, because tend to baby you must {…} Read/watch my tips on the blo — link in bio! ⬆️ Hope they help! 📸 @blue.locket

PUMPKINS! 🎃 I’m obsessed with autumn since moving to New England. 😬🍁 One of my favorite children’s books to read to my son is “I Am a Bunny” by Richard Scarry and Ole Risom, which involves our bunny protagonist leading us through the seasons and what he likes to do in each. I relish every page because I truly feel the depth of each season now that we live in New Hampshire. Is it because of NH’s distinct seasons? Or is it because I’m getting older… and hence, talking about the weather more? Idk but I’m here for it. 🥰 Anyone know this book? Who’s loving autumn with me? 🙋🏻‍♀️ *zoom in for those eyelashes 😍