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    🍃Herbal comfrey works absolute magic! 🍃While there are quite a few wonderful plants that help...
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    Restoring the fierce protective nature of motherhood - by protecting, supporting, empowering women...
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    Postpartum herbal baths are great for newborns as well as mamas! Yes you are right, generally...
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    ♥️ Labor is big work that truly benefits from continuous support. Achieving a natural birth in a...
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    💗This is an important expectation of our chosen birth attendants. And an important topic to...
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    🍃*SEE today’s stories for the homeopathic carousel!🍃YES, there is a LOT that you can do yourself...
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    🍃 Postpartum herbal baths are safe and healing for newborns as well their mamas. Properly done,...
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    🩵 Men are becoming fathers at birth; it’s an honor to witness such a profoundly tender and sacred...
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    If having a natural birth is your priority, take special care hiring your birth attendant as they...
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    🌹Women over 35 years old are now often pushed to induce before their due date or at least BY their...
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    Mothers & babies sometimes struggle with yeast or thrush infections after birth, though moms...
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    Quality maternity care is thoughtful towards all aspects of becoming a mother- the normal...
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    💧To safely navigate a normal pregnancy and birth, the body maintains its own physiological...
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    ♥️ Planned home birth is very safe for those women having a normal healthy pregnancy, studies and...
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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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    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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    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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    @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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