Did you know that you have options for comfort and pain management that strike a balance between “all-natural” and an epidural? If you haven’t heard of nitrous oxide, ask your midwife, doctor, or care provider about it. Women say that it takes the...
When you feel overwhelmed, do you have an easy time asking for help? When I ask mothers this question, about 95% of the time they say that they feel guilty when they ask others for help! This needs to change!! As mothers, we used to live in tribes and raise our...
Our culture, our media, and our communities like to share the worst-case scenarios. Calm, peaceful, normal stories and situations are not as “exciting” as the dramatic ones. They don’t get as much attention. In birth, especially in home birth, we...
I knew that becoming a mom would by physically exhausting…the sleepless nights, the constant physical carrying, the taking care of and tending to needs…but I didn’t know how emotionally exhausting it would be. I’m an empath so I feel others’...