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Bringing Home Baby- Five Things You Should Do
Your baby is born, you and baby are doing great and your nurse comes in to let you know that you are free to go home. Great news, right? It’s the news that you have been waiting for, so why does it feel so scary? You are not alone. Yes, you may have taken every...
Surviving the Holidays with Family- Five easy tips
Surviving the holidays with family can be tricky. Families, although usually well intentioned, can be stressful and overwhelming at times. Add one child or more to this mix and you’re in over your head. The traveling, cooking, shopping, and family dynamics can be so...
Easy to Make Gift Ideas
Easy to Make Gift ideas for creating an all-natural postpartum gift bag for any pregnant mom’s on your holiday shopping list Why- Many women will experience post labor contractions. The uterus has grown and expanded for the past nine months, and so for the next 4-6...
5 Ways Art Can Help Women and Couples Prepare for Birth
Creating Birth Art can help women and couples prepare for birth. This purposeful art has been known to provide strength, discovery and vision to women and couples for their relationship, self understanding and birth experience. Birth Art is not the kind of art we did...
Top 5 Reasons Daytime Postpartum Help is Amazing
Postpartum doula support is the most incredible service for families! Most families are familiar with the overnight support doulas provide, but are less familiar with the daytime care. Both types of support are wonderful. Many families find that having a combination...
Finding Yourself After a Baby- Five Self Care Tips
Finding yourself after you have a baby is so important! We all know that having a baby is so consuming emotionally, physically and mentally. It can take months and even years to feel like you are strong again. The feeling of being drained, overwhelmed and...
The Moment We Became A Family
The guilt and self doubt that most women feel after becoming a mother is overwhelming. I’d love to say it gets easier, but it really doesn’t. Always worrying that you are not spending enough time, that your response to their misbehaviors will damage them for life and...
The Scary Truth About a Growing Family
Adjusting from no children to one has many challenges including a huge learning curve, coping with relationship changes, adjusting to your new role as a parent and dealing with insecurities and unknowingness. It is hard becoming a parent for the first time. Life as...
Top Five Things You Must do After You Have a Baby
Having a baby is exhausting! As if pregnancy and labor aren’t enough to make you feel exhausted now you have to recover and care for a new baby. Did you know newborns are supposed to eat 10-12 times a day? And they can eat for 40 minutes to an hour at each feeding. So...