Birth and Postpartum Doula by Lilly

06/14/2014

06/02/2014

“Daddy!!! Diarrhea is coming out of Mommy’s mouth!!!” Ahhh, morning sickness. The quintessential pregnancy experience in which a woman heaves a whole plate of eggs into her own hair. We’ve come to expect it as a normal part of pregnancy, but is it? Not necessarily, says Kristen of Food Renegade.In h…

05/24/2014

When I became a parent at the ripe old age of 24, I was glad to kiss a difficult pregnancy goodbye and embrace the joys of new motherhood. But while the joys were many, so were the challenges. I thought I had been adequately prepared to reach a whole new level of sleeplessness, to feed someone from my own body more than I fed myself, to answer every beck and call and do it effortlessly.

05/23/2014

“You are 10 weeks 4 days for today’s ultrasound.” - Ultrasound tech (prior to a scan) to a woman who had a D&C two weeks before. The same technician had diagnoses the miscarriage two weeks previously.

04/21/2014

03/26/2014

Birth should be an awesome thing with as much focus on making it as easy and safe for you as possible, and of course, as safe as possible for the baby...

03/17/2014

Hmmm. Makes you think...

Pamela Wible, M.D., is a family physician born into a family of physicians. Her parents warned her not to pursue medicine, but she followed her heart only to...

03/17/2014

After some time off and life taking its blows.... ive decided im coming back to what i loved and felt so passionate about. Time to catch up on my readings and get my ass back in gear.