Lizzie Reezay (2025)

17/01/2025

NEW YouTube video! https://youtu.be/qkoXqyFsN0o?si=bnJj102HEjeQ7cWX

Having a baby with bipolar disorder— how I’ve prevented postpartum psychosis and set up a sleep schedule to NOT be sleep deprived with a new baby while breastfeeding & pumping 🍼🤱🏼

26/12/2024

Merry Christmas! It is our baby’s first Christmas outside the womb ❤️ Last year a week before Christmas is when I felt her kick for the first time, as we were heading to Mass. Now she kicks her feet in joy whenever she is excited about something!

Going through Advent while pregnant last year was so incredible and now getting to experience Christmas season with a baby is so fun!

Becoming a mom has helped me understand deeper the beauty of Jesus choosing to come to earth as a vulnerable and tiny baby. It has also helped me know more of what Mary was experiencing getting to be the mom to our King!

The coolest thing by far is seeing how a baby’s relationship with her mom is so similar to our relationships to God. The form of love where we completely rely on God for our needs is so similar to being a baby. I am so grateful how parenthood has depended my understanding of God!

11/09/2024

First time at the beach with her 🏖️ 🌊 It is so fun seeing the world through her eyes!

09/09/2024

Work officially started up for us! I was SO nervous even though baby sleeps through the night, but it has been so fun!! My husband and I both worked some over summer but not in person at specific hours.

1. Me bringing baby with me to tabling for campus ministry job ✝️

2. My sister visited us to meet our baby and we went on a hike one of the days! 🌷

3. Chocolate chip cookies recipe from Nora Cooks! 🍪A hack I learned recently is to get your hands wet before rolling out the cookies onto the pan, that way the batter isn’t so sticky on your hands.

4. Back at the exact same place I did my maternity photoshoot 🤰🏼

5. Breakfast in the sun! I make my oatmeal with chia seeds, flaxseeds, walnuts, frozen mixed berries, cinnamon, oat milk and maple syrup 🫐🍓

6. Our family garden 🍅 After the ceiling collapsed on our last apartment I was a little annoyed having to move, but the new apartment has more direct sunlight for a garden so a win is a win ☀️

7. I’ve been making pumpkin spice lattes at home! 🎃 Coffee, pumpkin purée, cinnamon, maple syrup, oat milk.

8. Love my family so much! My husband has done the majority of the cooking since I breastfeed.

9. Decor in our bedroom. We have icons all over the house! 🥰

10. Finished watching another X Men movie! I love them soooo much 🍿

30/08/2024

Life lately ✨

1. Our family’s last weekend until husband started up the semester teaching 🏖️
2. Filming for YouTube— birth story video 🎬
3. Best blueberry muffin recipe from Nora Cooks website 🫐
4. Sorting baby clothes she will fit soon 🥹
5. Catholic desk set up
6. Backseat queen life

19/08/2024

Life last week!

1. Concert fit 🎤
2. Breakfast in bed with baby 🥞
3. Watched the X Men movies for the first time with husband and LOVED!!! So many intense ethical conversations came out of it.
4. Our Mass fits
5. My second favorite restaurant 🥙
6. Loving my upgrade to backseat queen 👑
7. Baby learned how to use her hands so we are starting to baby proof the house.
8. Can’t believe it is my 9 year anniversary of being vegan 🍟
9. Reusable nespresso pods! You keep the bottom part of the pods that come with it, put in your own coffee and then put these silicone lids on top.

12/08/2024

Photos of life last week 💜

1. Baby napping! Something I read that completely changed my view on parenting: it’s not that baby is using mom as a pacifier but that baby uses a pacifier because it’s like mom. So I now let myself be a pacifier more! It has helped her nap better and be happier when we’re out.

2. Fun dinner! The ginger garlic noodz from Plant You cook book and rambatan (my fav fruit I had in Thailand)

3. H Mart haul! We’d never been before so had SO much fun looking around at everything. We went because I could not find oyster mushrooms and a specific type of noodle at so many stores but ended up finding so many other things too!

4. Have been loving the Little Mix individual music! Jade’s song and the remixes are SO good!

5. LOVING this new album of

6. I was sick for a few days but spending time with baby made it still happy! Thought I had mastitis again and was so annoyed but it is something else.

7. Made mango sticky rice!! 🥭

05/08/2024

Photos of life from last week! ☀️

1. Nursing baby at OCIA in matching dresses! My husband & I teach it at our parish. This week we talked about the Trinity and the heresy of Arianism.

2. Gym fit! 💪I forgot I had so many of my clothes because they couldn’t fit in pregnancy so it is fun going into my workout drawers again.

3. Grocery shopping! 🛒 One of my favorite things to do with husband. Cooking is one of my favorite parts of life and so shopping is a part of that and it makes me so happy. All our meals we make are vegan!

4. Filming reels in my office! The sunlight makes me so happy 🌤️

5. My favorite ice cream! 🍦

6. Cloth diapers drying after being washed 🧺

7. Meal prepping with my favorite cookbook! We only started doing it this year where we pick out specific recipes, write out ingredients list, shop and then make them. Before we would just get random ingredients and decide each day what we want to cook. Having a baby forced us to get super organized!

8. Feeding baby in bed all day— I pulled a muscle at the gym (went too hard when I should’ve lifted lighter since it had been months) so fed her in the laying down position since I needed to rest. It was so cozy! 🥰

9. This was my FAVORITE Bible verse back in high school. Every few years I pick a new favorite Bible verse so I was so excited years ago when I found this mug 🙏

02/08/2024

First time back at the gym! Comment WATER BOTTLE if you want the link they have them in so many colors 💖

I got the Taylor Swift workout skort for my birthday so was SO excited to wear it! I did arms and back and was shocked how I haven’t lost that much strength. I thought I would since it’s been so long.

I was NOT ready to go back to working out at 6 weeks so waited way longer. This was the second time in about 3 months I’ve been away from my baby and it was SO hard leaving the house without her even though I know she loves my husband.

Being able to just walk in from another room to see her when my husband is holding her or sleeping but knowing she is close by is way easier than leaving the house.

I almost started crying when I walked in the gym because every other time I’ve been at the gym this year it’s been with my baby inside me so I felt so sad, but then had a lot of fun!

My goal is not losing the pregnancy weight but doing something that makes me happy and getting stronger so I can easily hold my baby all the time as she grows bigger!

29/07/2024

Photos from my life of the past week!

1. My first coffee in almost a year! ☕️ 200mg of caffeine daily is safe in pregnancy, but the smell of coffee made me extremely nauseous while I was pregnant and after giving birth. This past week the food aversion finally went away and we got a nespresso machine to make lattes! It is safe to drink 300mg caffeine a day while breastfeeding.

2. It was my birthday so we did a family photoshoot outside! 📸 I love taking photos so much and have a bluetooth remote that goes with my tripod so we can take them ourselves. I have over 34,000 photos on my phone because I love looking back at memories.

3. Dim sum takeout for birthday dinner 🥟 So good! We got this last year too.

4. Birthday cake was so yummy! 🎂

5. Baby contact napping on me! We spend hours doing this every day which is one of my favorite parts of being a mom. I work on social media while she is sleeping.

6. Shōgun is the show my husband and I are currently watching together! We recently got Disney plus and Hulu bundle and it’s been so fun. I’m also rewatching my favorite show Lost and just finished season one.

7. New toy for our baby! It’s so cute.

8. Pesto pasta we made from the cookbook! 🍽️ We used some of the tomatoes from our garden and substituted pine nuts for cashews, because we cannot find pine nuts anywhere.

9. First alcohol in almost a year!🥂It is moscato which is the only wine I like. Since I’m breastfeeding my baby I have to wait 1-2 hours per drink after finishing the drink before feeding her again. We went with 2 hours to be extra safe. I have a huge stash of pumped milk which is why I can drink which is so nice!

27/07/2024

Advice for the Catholic girlies! How to talk about contraception & fertility tracking with your doctor:

At my 6 week follow up after birth my OBGYN asked me what contraception method I want to use once I resume s*x.

She told me I’ll ovulate before my first period & can get pregnant while breastfeeding. Both correct! LAM method is not reliable.

I’ve seen Catholic women share stories of bad responses from their OBGYN and that they switched OBGYNs or now travel far to see a Catholic doctor.

Neither of these is necessary if you communicate effectively.

Here’s what to say when asked about contraception…

“I track my ovulation with luteinizing hormone tests” Or “I track my ovulation with a basal body thermometer and cervical mucus”

Most women don’t know what LH is or that cervical mucus can inform us on fertility so that communicates to your doctor how you are educated on ovulation.

Here is what NOT to say:

1. “I use Natural Family Planning” This is not specific. NFP is an umbrella term for many ways of tracking fertility all with different effectiveness and can even include the calendar method which is only 75% effective with typical use.

2. “I’m opposed to contraception” There is no reason to be argumentative and get into a philosophical discussion. Just say you are tracking your fertility.

3. “I’m against contraception because of my religion” This is not accurate for most Catholics. Yes we learned NFP from Catholicism, but that’s not why we use it. Even if I left Catholicism I would still use ovulation tracking. Most women who use NFP are not even Catholic. No need to be controversial by bringing up religion.

4. “I track my ovulation and am abstinent with husband during fertile periods” Not necessary to bring up. Most women who track fertility use NFP as a birth control method by using barrier methods during fertile times. It’s not necessary for your OBGYN to know you do abstinence rather than condoms.

If my doctor responded that NFP is not effective and I need to take prenatals I would calmly say “The Marquette Method I use is 99% effective with typical use & 99.5% effective with perfect use. My daily multivitamin has enough folic acid in it.”

25/07/2024

I just had my birthday!! So here is my annual photos post from what happened over the past year 🎂

1: Family photoshoot we did on my birthday!

2: One of the many PowerPoints I made for my job at our church! My husband and I teach OCIA (the class people take to convert into Catholicism) and this year we had 5 people come into the church at Easter vigil! Getting to know them on their faith journeys is so incredible. We work in children’s ministry too and I am SO happy that my jobs are all Catholic.

3: Me going to my campus ministry job! For this I do prayer nights, Bible study and hang out events with the Catholic college students.

These two jobs got me through my pregnancy. It was so hard to work being so sick but I needed it so much to give me purpose and joy. So thankful!

4: Taking care of my baby with my husband is so fun! I spend my days holding her because she breastfeeds and then falls asleep on me for her naps. I LOVE being a mom. While I was pregnant I learned that babies don’t realize they are a separate person from their mom, but what I wasn’t expecting was to feel the same way toward my baby.

5: Speaking event I did in September in Michigan! The audience was the best I’ve ever had their facial expressions were so intense! I usually feel more comfortable when I can’t see people’s faces because of the lighting or crowd size but this event changed my mind.

6: Over Christmas this was my last time seeing my childhood cat (named Christmas) before he died. We got him when I was 12 and so he had such a long and happy life! I’m glad he got to meet my baby before he died. Cats (and dogs and rabbits) can hear the babies heartbeat and smell hormonal differences so know when a woman is pregnant.

7: Halloween because I’m a Swiftie!

8: Flying for Thanksgiving! We visited one of my friends from college (also a Catholic convert!) and her family for my favorite holiday. They are my favorite Catholics (who are now our baby’s godparents) so we had such a fun trip!

9: San Diego trip in August! My last trip of the summer. Beach and hiking are my favorite & the food there is incredible too.

10: Maternity photoshoot a few days before baby was born!

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