Journal
Can you believe it's already the middle of July??
Time is flying, and there are definitely products that we have sworn by this summer with the kids. I'm sharing them here in advance of Amazon Prime Day in case it helps any of you score deals!
I realized recently that even though I created Jhula, a whole business around my love for motherhood, I’ve never shared my birth story. April is cesarean awareness month and even though it’s drawing to a close, I wanted to take a moment to tell a bit more about me since both my children were born via C-Section.
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After getting pregnant, I thought that the craziest bodily experience would be watching my body grow with the baby. That was until my milk supply started coming in and I could feel the liquid gold building up and being consumed over and over. It really is one of those experiences you cannot understand until you go through it.
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One of my first childhood memories is yelling at my parents for naming me Smriti. No one could pronounce it in my pre-school class (it’s still hard for most adults) and it made me feel, even at such a young age, that I was different. As 4 year old me exclaimed, “why couldn’t you just name me Jessica!?”, I had no idea that figuring out my identity as a first generation American would be a lifelong journey.
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Do you have holiday traditions you look forward to? For me, the most memorable ones are for celebrating Diwali. My parents introduced us to traditions we repeated every year growing up – a prayer to Lakshmi (Hindu goddess of prosperity) and, my...
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