I'm Meg, a 30-something mom to three kids under six. My husband,

Rick, and I live in Atlanta with our kiddos and two dogs. And while I technically

became a mother in 2020, I've been "Mama Meg" since college. Always the helper,

the one who texted to make sure everyone got home safe and pledge mom senior year,

I was the "mom" of my friend group. Ten years later, the nickname came back stronger than

ever when I had my first.

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While I was pregnant, I felt the most intense joy and gratitude, but I also felt something I didn't expect: fear. Fear that I didn't really know literally anything about becoming a parent. Fear that I was going to mess up the thing I'd wanted most my entire life. And because I'd just moved across the country and there was a little thing called a global pandemic, I didn't have a group of mom friends I could lean on for advice while I navigated this transition.

 

So, I turned my anxiety into my superpower and started doing what I do best - researching the hell out of it. I read everything I could get my hands on, watched webinars and took classes. I then started compiling recommendations to have ready for my sister and best friends. When their time came, I wanted to help even the slightest bit by giving them a place to start. 

 

Turns out, that time came pretty quickly! One of my best friends got pregnant a few months later. So I sent her what at the time was a lengthy Google document with advice about pregnancy, baby prep, and registry items. Shout out to the real ones who saw that original version! Along the way, I added new sections about postpartum recovery, breastfeeding, bringing home baby, traveling, transitioning to toddlerhood and more. Once the information was already together, I started offering it up to other pregnant friends to see if they wanted it. Spoiler alert: they all did, because they had that new mom fear too. 

 

Before I knew it, my little Google doc had been shared to friends of friends and beyond - hundreds of women, most of whom I didn't know and would reach out to thank me for softening their landing into motherhood. While on mat leave with my second, I decided to get things into a better format, and this website was born. 

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Fast forward to today: I'm now a mom of THREE (our daughter joined the boys in 2024), and this past year brought the biggest plot twist of my mom era. I've spent thirteen years working in tech. Which means I understood better than most exactly how social media apps were engineered to keep me scrolling — and I still couldn't stop. I'd look up from a "quick check" and thirty minutes were gone. Minutes -- which turned into HOURS -- that I wanted back. 

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So I did something drastic: I deleted the social apps off my phone. All of them. And it was the single best decision I've ever made.

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These days I'm up at 6am some mornings, not doomscrolling in the dark like the old me, but building things I actually care about while the house is quiet. The projects I'd been "too busy" for got finished. I handed my life admin over to AI. And the version of me my kids get now is more present, more patient, and honestly? More ME than she's been in years.

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So this space has grown right along with our family. You'll still find everything that started it — the honest pregnancy, postpartum, and baby advice I wish someone had handed me. But now you'll also find my favorite non-toxic and actually-worth-it product finds, real talk about mom life with three littles, and the AI prompts and systems that gave me my brain back. Want a head start? My free guide — 5 AI Prompts Every Mom Needs — is waiting for you, right here → itsmamameg.com/subscribe.

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All that said, please know that ALL of the advice and information I share comes from a place of "this is what worked for me, in case it's helpful to you!" I am never here to judge another parent's choices or say that my way is the best or only way. My hope is to help any new mom out there as she's entering this incredible, scary, beautiful, exhausting, amazing new chapter. It's the best scary thing you'll ever do. This is all information I wish I'd had when I was pregnant with my first - and again, it's just a place to start. And to be very clear, I am not a medical professional, though I do have a lot of trust and faith in the ones in my life. 

 

Thank you so much for being here! Reach out with questions or comments, I love to hear from y'all!