Happy New Year dear readers! As I’ve said before, my life is essentially an open “blog” because I find the act of sharing to be quite therapeutic. So here goes: I’ve got babies on the brain. Perhaps it’s because I’m surrounded by the most adorable little ones (thank you friends), or because my clock has started to tick (thank you mother nature), or because my husband is so freakin’ amazing around little kids that it fills my heart with glee (thank you husband).

It’s probably a combination of all the above, plus the fact I’ve always loved babies and have wanted to have children since before I even knew where they came from. You know those people that stop to ooh and aah at every puppy they come across? Well, that’s me except with babies. Once they hit five I start to lose interest (unless they’re related to me like my nieces and nephew, and obviously if they’re mine, or at least I hope so). All this to say that I’m praying 2017 will be the year I get pregnant. Holy sh*t — just writing this makes me extremely happy and terrified all at once. #overwhelmed.

In any case, once my husband and I had the “talk”, I started googling “what you should do when you decide you want to get pregnant”, and I realized there’s actually a lot of things women, and in some cases their partners can and ideally should do to prepare for an optimal pregnancy. And because I can’t be the only one interested in this information, I pitched the idea to write an up-to-date article on the topic for the the Broadcast. Luckily, my wonderful editor said yes and you can read the article here. Check it out and cheers to a happy and healthy new year.

xoxo

Val