My name is Reedu Taha Wood and I was born in Nigeria, raised on Long Island and became a mom in Brooklyn. I am a mother, but I am also very passionate about animal rescue and protection. Which means that if I bump into you on the street, I’ll admire your baby but what I really want to talk about is your dog.
I have been processing my mental laundry on morning runs for over 10 years. The load seems to be endless, though, and so I turn to this blog to work on the hard-to-get-out stains. My 30-hour drug-free labor unexpectedly turned me into a natural birth advocate and I breastfed my son far longer than I ever planned. Becoming a mom has a way of making you do things you never thought you would.
But I’m not just serving up reheated breast milk here.
I have a deep appreciation for cold beer, affordable fashion, wifi in the sky and being on the beach. I find the Weather Channel strangely comforting and am still mourning the end of HBO’s Six Feet Under.
I share my home with my best friend, lover, husband and babydaddy, Jason, our amazing baby boy Mylo, our handicapped pitbull Ella, our geriatric cat, Bug, and Franky, our unusually large ficus tree. Yes, in this busy Brooklyn home, even the plants have names.
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