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No need to take a cough home in your Easter baskets! It’s a powerful preventative to keep your...
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Birth too? This is one way I encourage women to approach the sensations of labor and birth. It’s...
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🍃 Being outside and working on land without chemicals offers many health benefits for everyone,...
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🍃Anxiety is a significant part of many women’s lives. During pregnancy and postpartum women have...
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☀️The first rays over the horizon at sunrise deliver bands of light with colors that provide...
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Very unique. And an honor walk with women on some of the most empowering, heroic, sometimes...
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When we’ve heard frightening stories about something going wrong at birth, it’s both possible and...
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These simple remedies are effective when moms need a little help with their first pee after birth....
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Pitocin is the most commonly used medication in the US to induce or augment labor, but because it...
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✨You are your own best expert, even if you wish to consult or need additional expertise. ✨You have...
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Moms often express feeling conflicted when they have their second baby. Thrilled yet worried about...
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Irritated?! A happy gallbladder is a happier you, pregnant or not. (Though many pregnant women...
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Do not ramp up in early labor, REST! Respecting the work of early labor makes things more fun, more...
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Comment HEALTHYWATER by Tues 3/25 for the link to enter our Boroux water filter give-away! Many...
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*Giveaway ended 3/25/25. Good info below, though! Let’s make it easier to get on the path to a...
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Long documented fact. Intermittent monitoring of babies in normal labors (not induced) through...
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Legs cramps (‘Charley horses’) in pregnancy are an agony, but they are preventable and treatable....
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♥️The 3rd and final stage of labor is the birth of your baby’s placenta. There tends to be a lot of...
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🌷We all need to hear a friendly voice once in a while, reminding us that we’re doing our best, and...
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Grace and dignity are key. They actually can improve safety, if for no other reason than a calmer...
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YES! Small women CAN birth big babies! 1. The internal dimensions of the pelvis matter, not the...
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✨The disruption of the time change can feel like a big curveball to overwhelmed and already tired...
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*DO check out the wonderful APPPAH, Association of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health....
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This is a powerful reframe of how today’s generations tends to see the birth process. Dr. Odent has...
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💙After a bruising birth, especially if it includes a shoulder dystocia or instrument delivery with...
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A labor that seems to have stalled out might have. And there’s a 1000 possible reasons, and all...
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✨Nutrition is the foundation of preventing and resolving swelling during pregnancy. (🙄 oh dear, I...
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@emoryhall is the author! CORRECTION💗 🩵 This melted me when a wise friend shared it this week....
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🍃Herbal baths traditionally help women ease into their postpartum recoveries with relief and...
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Round ligaments are two rope-like bands of connective tissue that stabilize the uterus, and they...
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Midwives and doulas notoriously hate the “What to Expect” Series. Although it’s very well marketed:...
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“Birth is made to work if no one’s there,” as Karen Strange, NRP Instructor teaches. Honoring...
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🍃Healthy alternative to Tums help resolve root causes instead of leaving lasting negative effects....
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When we’re pregnant, we worry about every little thing. Here are some safe, holistic approaches to...
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*update below The magic of nebulizers is that they are wildly effective with the right ingredients,...
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This is one of the most important issues I can teach clients. Sometimes we are up against their...
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What’s your experience with cervical checks and vaginal exams in labor? They can be an intrusive...
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🍃Postpartum herbal baths are a longstanding tradition in the homebirth world, and have become...
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Pregnant? Make this your home screen. Babies are very visual, including preborn. this position is...
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Snotty baby are so miserable, aren’t they?! If you have a home shower, you have one of the easiest...
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I’ve had women consulting with me share that they were told by OB’s and clinic staff that they...
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💧When the amniotic waters break but it’s not time for labor, or labor doesn’t start as quickly at...
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In the top 5 things for a healthier pregnancy and family are…. VEGETABLES! (#1 is purified water,...
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We use the tools that we train with. Traditional midwives train with tools like being patient with...
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When interviewing a homebirth midwife, start here - 1. “How many clients do you take each year?”...
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By special request… Cradle cap can be so annoying, can’t it? Both my boys had it… but a little...
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It is dehumanizing and disempowering to women to be denied food and fluids in labor- THEY AREN’T...
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Newborns and their mothers are a unit, each doing better when the other is also. Rest, nesting...