While breastfeeding is the most natural thing in the world, it doesn’t always come easy to moms or babies. Even if mom has breastfed before and knows what she is doing, baby hasn’t and may need some help learning the right way to get fed. Try to wash your hands before each feeding, or use […]

You spend your whole pregnancy researching and seeking advice from different sources; your care providers, your mom, your grandma, your best friend, facebook mom groups, etc. You learn everything you think you could possibly need to know about pregnancy and childbirth. Then you come home from the hospital, where you had nurses and professionals to […]

Breastfeeding in Real Life: Doula Molly’s story. When I was pregnant with my first son, I had “planned” to breastfeed him. Though it wasn’t really a plan. It went more like this”I’ll try to breastfeed.” I was indifferent  about it. It wasn’t a goal. It wasn’t the most important thing. It was just a thing […]

Sarah is preparing to go to nursing school and some of her pre-requisites required that she write certain types of essays. As you can imagine, most of the essays were birth related if it fit the criteria for the essay. This last essay due is a persuasive essay. So of course Sarah had to write […]

Having a cesarean birth is too common in this country, about 1 in 3 births are surgical. I’ve blogged about my births before, mainly my vbacs. I want to talk about what it’s like to be the one on the operating table and what it’s like to be supporting the mother going through the operation. […]

Your baby is finally here! You get through the first 24-48 hours at the hospital with the nurses everywhere and offering assistance at every turn. Then you go home. You nurse your precious baby, she drifts off to sleep and all is right with the world. Then what seems like instantly baby is hungry and […]

It’s no secret our society has over sexualized women’s breasts. It’s too common of an occurrence that a woman is scolded and shamed for feeding her child the way nature intended in public. People like to rebuttal that urination is also natural but they don’t do that in public. This is an idiotic statement because […]