New Blog, New Name!

How do you decide what to write for your FIRST blog post? You want it to be good, engaging, entertaining, AND educational. You want to set the tone for your new blog and you want to connect with your readership. I don’t know about you, but these are all things that have been running through my head  as I contemplated what to write about first.

Like many writers, or writers at heart, I have a running list of blog post ideas. I’ve been thinking about starting this blog for some time after all! So all week long I’ve been thinking, planning, STRESSING (can you relate?) about how to make my first post meaningful and important. We live in an era where everyone is an author. The internet has changed the landscape; social media has become one of our major news outlets, our magazines, an avenue for entertainment. In business, blogs are a useful and prevalent tool for increasing SEO, marketing, and overall web-presence.

But for me, it’s more about the connection. It’s communal, it’s about highlighting the awesome people that I live life with(in my house, and in this world). THIS blog will be more collective, it will be more collaborative, it will be different….I humbly hope.

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New Year, New Blog!

1Hello CCDS friends! I have some exciting news just in time for the New Year! For a while now, I’ve been pondering and planning to begin this blog, and today is the day to jump in! I’m really looking forward to sharing some thoughts, hearing from you, and learning and growing together over the next year through this new avenue. I hope this blog will be a resource for expectant parents AND to birth professionals.  I’m excited to write and share some my insight, but I’m even more excited to feature many of you, my ever talented parents, students, colleagues and friends!

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