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Deanna Skolos

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Enjoying life with our new family addition 😍

Enjoying life with our new family addition 😍

Tongue tie (or ankyloglossia) is very common & mos

Tongue tie (or ankyloglossia) is very common & most parents aren’t aware it may be causing issues in your baby. It is a condition that restricts the tongue's range of motion. The condition is present at birth. A short, tight band of tissue tethers the tongue's tip to the floor of the mouth. It can affect how a child eats & speaks, & can interfere with breastfeeding. Individuals can also have lip ties & cheek ties that also can cause issues.

When Joey was 3 weeks I noticed a few issues - a shallow latch causing extra air to get in which caused gas pains. It was also difficult to nurse in public due to milk pouring out the sides of his mouth. His jaw would also shiver but it was from exhaustion of using the wrong muscles to breastfeed. Very difficult to put to sleep etc. I chatted with a friend & she told me it’s bc of tongue tie & lip tie.

I researched it a ton & was shocked at how many issues such a small thing can cause:
Colic
mastitis
Jaundice
Slow weight gain
Thrush
Painful breast feeding
Decreased milk supply
Premature end to breast feeding
Poor sleep
Face developing incorrectly
Sinus issues
Gums receding
Delayed speech
Migraines (in adults)
ADHD
Congestion
Sleep apnea
Chronic fatigue
Dental crowding
Front gap
Tooth decay

Most pediatricians and dentists will recommend not getting the tongue/lip tie fixed but from my research & experience I highly recommend it if you can find an expert to get it fixed. I took Joey to Team Tongue Tie in San Diego. They were incredible. Joey had 5 ties. Tongue tie, top and bottom lip tie & two cheek ties. They numb the areas and laser the ties & it was very quick. He was uncomfortable for 3-4 days after but I already see a difference yesterday & today. I’m so happy I chose to do it & wish I did it even sooner.

The cause may be hereditary. It’s actually very common & people are becoming more aware today as breast feeding becomes more popular. People think it’s also from folic acid (man made form of folate) in prenatals. Folate is from real food (or a raw prenatal) where as folic acid is man made.

Tell me if your kids have had a tongue & your experience! ⬇️ also any doctors/dentists you recommend!!

My home birth story is up on my blog!!! ✨ I shar

My home birth story is up on my blog!!! ✨ I shared about my water breaking at a park 🤪 what I liked about a home birth versus hospital birth with Evelyn, & if we decided circumcise or not! Link in bio!

📸 Amazing pictures by @kimberlyhopephoto

Joseph Strother Skolos 💙 Born at home Septembe

Joseph Strother Skolos 💙

Born at home September 3rd at 10:00pm
8 pounds 14 oz - 19 inches long

We are all so in love 🥰

Excited to share my home birth story soon! ✨

Ready for this new season! New place in a new city

Ready for this new season! New place in a new city with a new baby 🤰🏻🏡

We’ve been working hard this past month moving & getting everything settled in. I forgot how hard moving was 😩 learned my lesson to never move while in the last month of pregnancy haha esp in the heat of the summer in a place with no A/C 🤦🏻‍♀️

39 weeks!! Soaking up all these last days with jus

39 weeks!! Soaking up all these last days with just Evelyn! It’s so surreal another human is joining our family soon!

We got pregnant with Evelyn after only 7 months of marriage. We wanted to wait longer & we didn’t feel ready at all but sometimes God has other plans.

We got pregnant a month after my mom passed away from breast cancer. Before we knew the gender, I felt like God told me we were having a girl & to name her Evelyn bc it means life - the enemy stole life from us, but God gave us back life. In my first year of marriage I had to face my two biggest fears - one of my parents dying (emotional pain) & child labor (physical pain). It was the toughest year but so empowering to overcome both.

We thought we would just have a bunch of kids two years apart like everyone seems to do. But I wanted to wait until i was ready and really wanting another baby since we weren’t trying the first time. It took me four years to feel ready but we’ve really enjoyed these four and a half years alone with Evelyn! Sometimes I regret not having a sibling closer to Evelyn’s age since Evelyn always wants a play mate 🤪 but It’s the only time we will have all our focus and attention one just one child & that was something special for us!

Evelyn can’t wait to be a big sister & meet this baby! It’s still so crazy we don’t know the gender!!!! But it’s helped us to stay very present in this season. Finding out the gender was something I said I would NEVER be able to do (my husband wanted it to be a surprise reallyyyy bad) but it’s been way easier and more fun than I thought!!!

My due date is next week but kind of preparing to be late since Evelyn was two weeks late!

Evelyn needed a baby of her own so we got her two

Evelyn needed a baby of her own so we got her two guinea pigs 🥰 (two bc apparently they get lonely) it’s been a week with Nala & Luna & she’s loving it!! Ask me in a few months if I regret this decision 😆

New blog post of what I put on my baby registry!!!

New blog post of what I put on my baby registry!!!! Link in my bio!

& sharing the rest of my maternity photos bc they are just 😍 @kimberlyhopephoto did an amazing job!!! 👏🏼

Simply Anti-Aging Serum 🤩 Imagine the normal f

Simply Anti-Aging Serum 🤩

Imagine the normal face serum on wrinkle fighting steroids!!!

Non-toxic goodness to help your skin look more youthful! Prevent aging & minimize current aging signs with this golden oil.

🔸 Bakuchiol or Babchi Oil 🔸
from India & considered nature’s retinol! It’s not recommended to use retinol when pregnant so I wanted to find something I could use. Retinol can cause dryness, redness & sensitivity to the sun. Babchi oil diminishes wrinkles, improves elasticity, increases collagen production and smooths skin. Babchi oil also evens skin tone, lessens appearance of dark spots and hyperpigmentation.

🔸 CoQ10 🔸
boosts hydration, stimulates the production of collagen and elastin, and reduces collagen breakdown.

🔸 Seabuckthorn Oil 🔸
gives skin elasticity, cell regeneration & reduces the gravity and length of wrinkles.

🔸 Rosehip Oil 🔸
helps production of collagen and combats visible sun damage. It also reduce scars, fine lines and skin pigmentation.

🔸Vitamin E 🔸
protects your skin from free radicals & helps heal sun damage.

🔸Sweet Almond & Lemon Essential Oil 🔸
delays signs of aging & protects skin from UV damage.

🔸 Lavender Essential Oil 🔸
prevents wrinkles, heals scars & redness.

Link to shop is in my bio!
Free shipping as always 🤗

📸: @karlibobarley

30 weeks! @kimberlyhopephoto making me feel radian

30 weeks! @kimberlyhopephoto making me feel radiant 🥰
Definitely feeling like I’m in the 3rd trimester, feeling more tired & more uncomfortable each day 🤪 but grateful I get to carry this baby & can’t wait to meet this babe! (We aren’t finding out the gender until birth!) I’ll be sharing a blog post on baby registry items I recommend soon! ✨

Also stoked about this dress I found a thrift store for $4 that my amazing SIL altered! 🙌🏼

Simply Skin Care - completely non-toxic products t

Simply Skin Care - completely non-toxic products to bring the best out in your skin.

Avoid potentially harmful ingredients found in most beauty products such as parabens, sulfates, phthalates & fragrances.

Your face deserves the simplest, pure ingredients from nature to reach its fullest potential. Simply Skin Care is as pure as it gets, perfect for ever skin type, even the most sensitive skin.

Clean beauty can be pricey, but these products won’t break the bank.

• Simply Face Serum for moisture & glow
• Simply Face Sunscreen for sun protection without breakouts
• Simply Anti-Aging Serum to turn back time
• Simply Eye Cream to wake up those puffy eyes

Summer nights with my favorites 😍

Summer nights with my favorites 😍

New product is finally available! 🙌🏼 SIMPLY

New product is finally available! 🙌🏼 SIMPLY EYE CREAM ☕️ wake up those puffy eyes with coffee infused eye cream!
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Caffeine is one of the most popular ingredients you can use to reduce eye puffiness & dark circles. Simply Eye Cream also tightens skin, moisturizes & fights aging.

Completely non-toxic. No fragrances, parabens, sulfates, phthalates. Ingredients: coffee infused sweet almond oil, frankincense essential oil, vitamin e, jojoba oil, coconut oil, beeswax.
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Link to order is in my bio! FREE SHIPPING as always! This eye cream will last you months! Handmade by me 💁🏻‍♀️

Bump is growing! Excited & grateful to be a mama o

Bump is growing! Excited & grateful to be a mama of two soon ✌🏼 #24weeks #babybump

Keto chili to balance these naughty corn bread muf

Sipping La Croixs with my girl, getting used to th

Sipping La Croixs with my girl, getting used to the slow quarantine life & starting to appreciate it ☀️Feeling great pregnancy wise, feeling the baby kick all the time! 👶🏼 I have my first ultrasound Thursday & I have to go alone due to covid restrictions, sad Michael or Evelyn won’t be with me. I only get one ultrasound (this is normal with a midwife) We’ve all been affected by this in some way, but we are almost through it!! Stay strong and thankful for what you do have!

Purple sweet potato pizza crust with Hawaiian BBQ

Purple sweet potato pizza crust with Hawaiian BBQ toppings 🍕🍍 Not a quick, easy recipe but sooo tasty & filling. And gluten free!! Purple sweet potato, oat flour, eggs, raw cheddar, traders sriracha bbq sauce, ham with no nitrates & pineapple.
I use Traders srircha bbq sauce and it pairs so well with the sweet potato!

Recipe on my website!

Boy or girl? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We decide

Boy or girl?
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We decided to wait...until the birth!!! Something I said I would never do 😆 Michael really wants it to be a surprise so I’m compromising bc I love him 🙃

the planner in me feels like this 🥴 but I’m at peace with it, mostly bc Evelyn doesn’t mind not knowing. I realized today she isn’t aware that you can actually know the gender before the baby is born haha.

Who else has decided to not find out the gender? What did you like about it?
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Do you guys think it’s a boy or girl?
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We feel like it’s a boy!
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#19weeks

My days consist of eating, cleaning, entertaining

My days consist of eating, cleaning, entertaining Evelyn, eating again, cleaning some more, then repeat again the next day. Quarantining would be more relaxing if I wasn’t a mom 😆 how are you moms staying sane during all this?

17 weeks into pregnancy, coffee sounds good again 🙌🏼 no more food aversion but still love carbs 🥞 but trying to focus on eating mostly protein, good fats & lowering my carbs per advice from my midwife. Midwife took my bloodwork & said everything looks good 🙌🏼 recommended an iron supplement bc my levels were a tad low (she recommended Floradix iron)

I’m going to add a calcium supplement as well bc pregnant women are prone to cavities. She said the baby gets all the calcium I’m eating, last pregnancy I def got a lot of cavities 😔

Supplements she suggests for pregnant women:
raw prenatal with folate - helps prevent neural tube defects
raw vitamin D3 5000IU - May safeguard against preterm delivery, strengthen babies bones
omega-3/DHA - maintains healthy hormone levels, helps brain development in baby (stop taking at 36 weeks)
probiotics
vitamin B complex - essential for iron absorption, can help with nausea

Starting at 20 weeks:
Raw garlic - optimizes vagina & gut flora
Probiotics - helps boost immune system, enhances production of vitamin B & K
Red raspberry tea - prepares uterus for labor

She also said to avoid corn syrup or high fructose corn syrup bc it actually contains the heavy metal mercury!

Good pictured: my gf oat banana pancakes (recipe on website) topped with cashew butter, raspberry jelly & hemp hearts, with organic coffee, tad bit of milkadamia with grassfed butter, cinnamon & stevia ☕️

Lemon sugar face & lip scrub 🍋 ok this one is A

Lemon sugar face & lip scrub 🍋 ok this one is AMAZING, makes skin feel sooo soft & smooth. Plus it’s so easy to make! You can make it out of what’s in your pantry! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
- 1/4 cup of any sugar
- 1 tbs sunflower, olive or avocado oil
- drops of essential oils of choice
- 1 tsp melted manuka honey (optional)

I put it in my old toothpaste glass jar!
Swipe for video.

Sugar may not be good to eat but it’s actually good for your skin!! It rubs off dead skin cells, hydrate skin, & retain moisture.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Sunflower oil is high in vitamin e, rejuvenates & heals skin. Lemon essential oil is antibacterial & can brighten skin tone.

Lavender essential oils help wrinkles, acne, dryness & dark spots.
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Manuka honey balances skin pH, helps slough away dead skin, decrease acne inflammation & is antibacterial.

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