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Abbi | Budget DIY + Home Reno

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🏠🔨 updating our 90s capsule home
👧🏼👦🏼👶🏼 twins + baby | 3 under 3
🇨🇦 Toronto-ish
💌 [email protected]

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he had notes… 😭

rip it all out or keep the carpet? 👇

#bedroommakeover #budgetdiy #90scapsulehome #roomreveal #diyrenovation by @abbiwarden

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15 days ago

#ad I had no idea what those hospital chimes meant until day three… 🥹

Reflecting on how far our twins have come, and so thankful to @growwithhuggies for celebrating and supporting NICU families like ours on this day 🤍

#nicu #nicuawarenessday #nicuexperience #nicubaby by @abbiwarden

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17 days ago

That stunt near the end was a calculated risk… 🫣 #diyrenovation #bedroommakeover #diyhomeprojects by @abbiwarden

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19 days ago

I did not expect this to be the hardest part 🤯 #diyhomeprojects #homereno #homerenovation by @abbiwarden

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21 days ago

Did we bite off more than we can chew… 😳 #homerenovation #homerenovations #diyhomeprojects by @abbiwarden

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23 days ago

Wait until you see the discount on the media cabinet… 👀 #potterybarnoutlet #outletshopping #westelmoutlet by @abbiwarden

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2 months ago

No more sandy protein smoothies. Ever. 🤝

This 5-second trick is a game-changer for getting the perfect texture.

Comment “PROTEIN” for the recipe!

#proteinsmoothie #momsofinstagram by @abbiwarden

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3 months ago

The apple.. 🤢😅 by @abbiwarden

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4 months ago

Your reminder that if something doesn’t feel right… it probably isn’t 🥺 by @abbiwarden

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6 months ago

No one warned me this could happen after a c section 🥺 #postpartum #csection by @abbiwarden

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6 months ago

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There was a time when babies did not belong to mothers alone.

They belonged to the village.

If a baby cried, any woman nearby might gather them into her arms.
If a mother was exhausted, another breast was offered.
If a mother was sick, another woman fed the child without hesitation.

Milk was not guarded.
It flowed where it was needed.

A hungry baby was everyone’s responsibility.

Women knew something we have slowly forgotten:

Human babies were never meant to survive on one mother alone.

They survived through circles of women.
Through shared arms.
Shared wisdom.
Shared milk.

Aunts.
Sisters.
Friends.
Grandmothers.

An entire web of mothers surrounding a child.

For most of human history, motherhood was not solitary.

It was communal.
Protective.
Interwoven.

One woman rested while another rocked the baby.
One woman labored while another fed the toddler.
One woman healed while another breastfed the newborn.

The village held the mother.
And the mothers held the babies.

And that is how our species survived.

Because long before parenting books and baby monitors and isolated nuclear homes…

there were women.

And women took care of each other’s babies.

-Love,
Flor Cruz
@badassmotherbirther

𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐌𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞, 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞, & 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭!
@abbiwarden
@hungry.mummy by @abbiwarden

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⚠️ TW: Pregnancy Loss

This one is hard to put into words 🥺 by @abbiwarden

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