Sage Village Nurturing Home Support

08/15/2025

The free event is open to families attending the city’s public schools, and will feature more than 100 youth-serving community partners.

03/10/2023

RECALL ALERT: Dorel Juvenile Group (Dorel) is recalling certain Safety 1st and Maxi-Cosi child seats. A detached child seat may not properly restrain the occupant, increasing the risk of injury in a crash. Consumers should refer to Dorel's recall report for specific model numbers and makes. More: http://bit.ly/3Ljlki6

07/10/2022

07/02/2022

In the last trimester, the placenta begins to secrete a corticotropin-releasing hormone, or CRH, which enables the mother to mentally and physically handle extreme amounts of stress; by the time of birth, most mothers have up to three times their pre-pregnancy levels of CRH[1] (or what we like to call the super-hero hormone).

I clearly remember wandering around my home in the postpartum period, unable to figure out how to accomplish my daily tasks because of an inability to act decisively in the presence of normal toddler activity, mess, and demands.

The ability to multi-task, overcome problems, and discover new solutions when obstacles arise are all skills directly affected by CRH hormones.

When the placenta is born, the feedback system that regulated the hormone’s production is interrupted, and the mother is left with only the CRH production of the hypothalamus. Because of this, postpartum mothers have low levels of this stress-fighting hormone making them more vulnerable to depression and less able to perform well under stress.

Studies from the National Institute of Health have found that consuming the placenta stimulates and stabilizes CRH levels. Endocrinologist George Chrousos, who led the NIH study, concluded that since the placenta contains large amounts of orally-active CRH, ingesting the placenta will stabilize CRH levels resulting in “a more stable emotional life for the mother.”[2]

[1] Chrousos, G. “Baby Blues-Postpartum Depression Attributed to Low Levels of Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone After Placenta Is Gone.” Brief Bnet., 1995.

[2] Makrigiannakis A, Zoumakis E, Kalantaridou S, Chrousos G. “Endometrial and Placental CRH As Regulators of Human Embryo Implantation.” Journal of Reproductive Immunology. 62(1-2), 2004, pp 53-9.

05/09/2022

There are so many of them;
they stand behind our backs,
long trails of mothers stretching out over the frozen lakes,
spilling beyond the skyline and eventually
lost far inside dark shadows of time.
There forms a river of women's blood,
a mesh of women's bones,
a web of women's lives
into which we are profoundly, intricately woven.
As we walk back along our line of ancestral women
they reach out their hands to touch us
We are being wrapped in the enduring life force of our
many ancient mothers.
Each ancestor we pass has given some part of herself to
the women we are now.
There are so many mothers whispering inside us.

~ Carolyn Hillyer, from the Weavers Oracle
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