📆 This Time Last Year

Hi Mama,

Mondays at The Bump and Beyond newsletter is dedicated to providing you words of fresh wisdom and encouragement.

Welcome back to our “This Time Last Year” series, short reflections from real moms who now have 3-month-old babies — which means this time last year, they were right where you might be right now.

Newly pregnant.

Googling everything.

Wondering if they were going to survive morning sickness, relationship strain, anxiety, or just the next doctor’s appointment.

I asked these moms to look back and share what they remember from those first tender, overwhelming months — not as polished advice, but as honest snapshots of what it felt like to be in your shoes.

Today’s story comes from a mom named Marissa.