The night Ben and I went home from the hospital, one of our friends was working a 24-hour shift. He helped us move all of our things to...

My first concern with Alaya after she was born was establishing breastfeeding. I wasn’t able to have the Golden Hour that I wanted, and...

After 3+ days of labor, excruciating pain, no sleep, and a tear of my perineum, the first thing stated after my daughter was born was...

Note: This blog is the second to last in the series on my labor and delivery. It was important to me to write it all out in detail as a...

So, it was August 8th, Thursday night. I had been to Shanghai that day for my prenatal appointment. I had already started having...

The Plan So, in the blog “A Natural Birth,” I wrote about the kind of births possible and the kind that I wanted. I wanted to have an...

Note: This blog was written before I gave birth, and I will, in a future blog, address how much of this was true for me. It wasn’t until...

This blog will be short, and future blogs will be delayed as Alaya Marie Yixin Xie was born on August 11th, at 9:50pm, weighing 2.66 kg...

There are many apps related to pregnancy that will encourage you to take photos of your growing bump weekly. However, I was not really...

Note: It’s important to start by saying that this blog post is not about my birth. I’m still pregnant (37 weeks 5 days) as I write about...

When is the baby due? I get this question a lot. I tell people either August 10th or August 14th. August 10th is based on the start of my...

One of my major projects this summer was to figure out what essentials I needed to buy before the baby was born. As many blogs reminded...

Before I begin this post, it’s important to note that I started this blog entirely for myself. It was a way to cope after the...

So, at 29 weeks pregnant, I passed out. I just fainted. It scared me. At the time, Ben and I had just started moving items between our...

What if I told that you that when Ben and I first started dating, it wasn’t because he found me particularly attractive? Okay, well,...

“If you are willing to take one meaningful step on your own behalf toward making a dream come true today, the Universe will meet you...

May 1stis Labor Day holiday in China. This year, May 1stfell on a Wednesday, and the government moved the working days Thursday and...

So, I posted the photos of my baby shower and announcement on Facebook this past week, and I thought people might also like to know what...

After a miscarriage, it can be hard to know when to announce to people that you are pregnant—again. The first time I announced to the...

Some of you may know that it was originally my plan to return to the United States at the end of the academic year 2018. By that point, I...