Brittany Myczkowski
Brittany is a mom, wife, and outgoing introvert who recently moved to the Columbia area in 2022! She has lived in many different cities from the East Coast to the Midwest and is happy to now call Columbia home. Building a sense of community is one of the reasons she and her family decided to come to Columbia and why she is very excited to be a part of the Columbia Mom team. Physical and mental health is also very important to her. As a physical therapist, she has witnessed the powerful connection of the mind and body and how both need to be given the proper TLC. In her spare time, she enjoys perfecting the fine art of sleep procrastination, listening to podcasts or books on tape, doing anything active, and adding unnecessary items to her Amazon cart. Photo by: Zach and Sarah Photography
Sentimental Holiday Gifts for Your Children as They Grow
As we enter the holiday season, I find myself considering ways of giving that minimizes the shopping carts, credit cards, and transient material items. I am not diminishing the practice of traditional gift giving....
My Experience Hiring a Postpartum Doula
We’ve all heard “it takes a village” when raising a family. When I first heard this saying, I imagined a life in which I could take my newborn baby home to a house filled...
What NOT to Pack in Your Hospital Bag
I just had a baby at Prisma Health Baptist Parkridge Hospital, and it was a wonderful experience! The staff was great, and I felt well taken care of during the entire labor and delivery...
Things I’m Doing Differently in Preparation for My Second Baby
The experience I had as a first-time mother was filled with all the heightened emotions. From the extremes of pure joy, love, and awe to the depths of desperation and panic. Even each stage...
Play :: A Paradigm Shift in How to Think About Playing With Your Child...
“Mom, will you play with me?”
This is a question I’ve heard multiple times as soon as our son learned to talk. It’s a sincere, innocent, and simple request, yet the turmoil it creates inside...
The Columbia Marionette Theatre :: A Hidden Gem
Every once in a while, my family and I veer away from our typical stomping grounds and try something new. Our most recent "something new" was venturing out to see a puppet show at...
The Struggles of the Working Mom vs. the Stay-at-Home Mom
Since becoming a mother, I have gone from working full-time, to working from home, to staying at home. And I can definitively say, it’s all hard.
I never anticipated being a stay-at-home mom. I worked...
Why I Didn’t Wait Until My Second Trimester to Tell People I Was Pregnant
With my first pregnancy, as soon as I found out I was pregnant, I felt the pressure to keep that information secret. I went out to dinner with friends and discreetly ordered a sparkling...
A Letter to My First Born
Dear Number One,
As I sit here in the first trimester with Number Two, I can’t help but think about how our lives will change. You have been the focus of my whole world, Number...
Making a List and Checking it Twice
I’m making a list, I’m checking it twice…or three times, or four, or actually, I’m running through the list in my head constantly all day long.
I am talking about the never ending “to-do” list....
Advice for New Moms from a Physical Therapist
I am a mom and physical therapist. There are some things I learned in physical therapy school that helped prepare me for being a new mom. These things, I believe, should be public knowledge...
How to Care for a Sick Toddler While Being Sick Yourself
While I was busy preparing for the first week of preschool, little did I know I also should have been mentally preparing to care for a sick child while being sick myself. Just as...
Listen up! 9 Parenting Podcasts to Inspire and Encourage You
There are a lot of ways to get information these days. While there is a surplus of information coming at us fast and furious through our screens, sometimes it is helpful to give our...
We Dropped TV Cold Turkey and Here Is What Happened
My son is two and half years old. Since he was 17 months, we have been letting him watch some TV. We started with some Kidsongs (a show from the 80s with real children...