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Postpartum Traditions from Around the World: Latin America
The postpartum period, aka the fourth trimester, is a critically important transitional time that should focus exclusively on bonding with your baby, healing your body, and adjusting to parenthood. Unfortunately in the United States, the postpartum period is often rushed through or ignored entirely; birthing…
Setting Boundaries with Family After Baby Arrives
Pregnancy brings so many new things into our lives that are both exciting yet often overwhelming because they’re happening to us all at once. While it’s normal and reasonable for us to focus most of our attention on our ever changing bodies and preparations for…
How To Help Parents With A New Baby
When it comes to support in the Postpartum time – there are so many things that are different now. Just a few years ago – our grandparents parented at a time when we were guessing on so many ideas without any factual, science-based evidence for…
Setting Yourself Up For Breastfeeding Success
You’re through the first two trimesters of your pregnancy, and now entering the “home stretch” – yaaaay! This whole “I’m having a baby” thing is becoming more and more real! You may have already set up the nursery (or not!), set up your gift registry,…
Breastfeeding Is A Journey You Can Get Through
Allison’s Story “I think the majority of mamas hope to breastfeed. I had my heart SET on it. I grew up hearing stories from my mom about nursing my brother and me into our toddler years, and I expected it to be no different for…
Who’s Teaching Who?
When I found out my daughter was pregnant I began to imagine what it would be like to be a grandma. I fantasized about the kind of grandma I would be. I conjured up elaborate scenarios of teaching my grandchild about life, about the importance…
The Survivor’s Road to Parenthood, Postpartum and Breastfeeding, Part 4
We’ve all heard the stories, whether from friends, personal acquaintances, or on the news: A postpartum woman has done the unthinkable, whether to her baby or to herself, leaving her loved ones and so many others in unimaginable shock and grief. Seldom are we ever…
Aligning Heart and Mind for Humankind’s Evolution
Innate’ is that which is natural and inherent. ‘Traditions’ are those teachings that are passed down from one generation to the next. Our innate physiological design offers us a map to health and wellness. We THRIVE when we follow that which has been laid out…
Expectations
We all do it…all the time. We anticipate, we project, we imagine, we fantasize; we EXPECT specific results to everything that happens in life. This is a perfectly human thing to do, but we need to be aware that expectations more often than not lead…
Physiolgic Postpartum Care: Re-Membering Our Global Postpartum Tradition
The original postpartum traditions throughout the world while specific to the cultural context in which they come—all share deep, common roots. Postpartum traditions all mandate: heat-inducing therapies; an extended resting period; specific foods that are warming in nature and easy to digest; and bodywork. These…
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