Hello and welcome to my little corner of the internet!
My name is Kirsten and I am a stay at home wife and mom of 2 little blessings. Motherhood for me is the most amazing journey and the most important role I will ever hold in my life.
It is beautiful, all-encompassing, joy-filled, awe-striking, messy, chaotic, challenging, intense, and much much more.
In 2022, shortly after getting married, we found out that we were expecting our first child, a boy! I had spent most of my life dreaming about babies and my husband and I were planning to try for a baby soon, so this was a much awaited point in my life.
That lifelong dream, however, did not prepare me for the reality of getting pregnant and having a baby.
A lot of my emotions and experiences caught me by surprise. Including the part where I became passionately against giving birth in a hospital and using any medical interventions for myself.
It had always been a given that I would birth in the hospital and at best I thought I might try for a natural birth but get an epidural if it became too much. The radical shift that took place about halfway through my pregnancy, surprised me and everyone else.
At 28 weeks I transitioned care from the OB clinic at the hospital to a licensed midwife and began prepping for a homebirth.
My son took his time and at 42 weeks I gave birth to our first child at home in our bed.
With our second, we decided on a birth center due to a lack of homebirth midwives that we both liked and could afford and at the beginning of 2025 I gave birth to our daughter.
Almost a year into being a mother, I began to dream of quitting my job and becoming a stay at home mom. My husband and I took the plunge and I did just that. A year and a half later, here we are.
Why I started this blog:
As I started my journey into motherhood, I found myself with a lot of questions regarding almost every aspect of the process.
Figuring out what to eat, finding comfortable clothes, what experiences and emotions were normal, etc.–were all things that sent me straight to Google.
The more questions I had and the more I began to learn, the more I wanted to help the mom’s who were in the same place I was at the beginning. The mom who is stressed out, overwhelmed, and not sure where to even look.
The mom who doesn’t know what she even needs to know or the questions to ask.
I don’t have all of the answers and I am not afraid to admit that I never will. Because each person’s life and experience, each mother’s pregnancy, or journey into motherhood is unique.
What works for me won’t work for everybody but I’m here to share my story in hopes of helping anybody who is looking for it.
If that’s you, then I’m glad you’re here and I hope you stick around to see what’s to come!
Behind the Name – “Spirit of a Momma”:
Spirit is “the nonphysical part of a person which is the seat of emotions and character; the soul.”
It’s one thing to be a mother. To make a human and bring them into this world. I believe it is another thing entirely to be a momma.
To love your children with your entire being — down to your core while actively caring for them with a strength derived from something beyond yourself.
It’s will power. It’s dedication. It’s unconditional devotion.
I believe that looks different on just about every momma. But it all comes back around in the end to the same foundational character of a momma.
The innate ferocity with which you embrace and navigate motherhood — That is the spirit of a momma.
