Yearly Archives: 2013

Soup is a quick and easy meal for postpartum, and is also a great choice for preparing ahead and freezing. The best way to make your soup as healing and sustaining as possible is to always start with a rich bone broth base. Bone broth contains minerals in a form […]

Postpartum Nourishment – Soups on!

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Breast feeding your baby is a full time job. It requires you to nourish yourself and to make time to nourish your baby. This is not a time to skip meals or cut calories, but often mom’s have a hard time finding an opportunity to feed themselves well, and many […]

Lactation Cookies

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Stretch Marks. Ugh. Women all over the world lament this common side effect of pregnancy.  The majority of women will get some stretch marks during pregnancy, usually appearing at around 30 weeks. But whether or not you get them, and how many you get, depends a lot more on your […]

Stretch Marks – not as simple as you thought.

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Most moms are familiar with the small hand held doppler used to listen to your baby’s heart beat at prenatal appointments.  But once you are at the hospital there are other options for fetal heart monitoring. Which is best, when and where, is not the topic for today. We will […]

They want to do WHAT to my baby’s head!?

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Let’s face it, being a labor partner can be pretty stressfull;  especially when you slept through most of the childbirth class.   You might not even be sure if you really want to see everything that may happen between the time you pull into the hospital parking lot and your […]

Two Simple Ways ANYONE Can Be a Super Hero in ...

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