How to Do Baby Kick Counts: A Calming Daily Check-In
Learn a simple, research-informed way to do daily baby kick counts so you can track fetal movement, reduce worry, and stay more connected to your baby’s well-being in late pregnancy.
Nourishing Winter Meals for Pregnancy & Immunity
Nourishing winter meals for pregnancy and postpartum: root vegetables, bone broth, healthy fats, and food‑based vitamin A to gently support your immune system
How to Relieve Those Sharp, Shooting Pains in Pregnancy, Naturally!
Feeling sharp, stabbing, or pulling pains low in your belly, groin, or inner thighs during pregnancy and worried it might mean something is wrong? Learn what round ligament pain is, how to tell it’s normal, and simple holistic ways to ease it so you can move with more comfort and confidence.
5 Easy Ways to Focus on Your Wellness New Year’s Resolution
Healthy New Year’s resolutions for moms: 5 easy, natural wellness habits that change everything for the better —better water, more veggies, movement, outside time, and gentle natural remedies.
Why Do Breastfeeding Moms Complain That Holidays Reduce Their Milk Supply?
Wondering “Why does my milk supply decrease over the holidays?” Learn how travel, stress, and routine changes affect breastfeeding—and how to boost supply.
Meaningful Gift Giving: Creating Memories, Not Clutter
When gift lists grow longer and meaning feels lost, it helps to pause and rethink what giving is really about. This piece offers down-to-earth ways to bring heart back to the holidays—through shared experiences, handmade gifts, simple traditions, and moments that turn into lasting memories.
How To Keep Sick Kids Hydrated (Without Losing Your Mind)
Hydration tips for sick kids: holistic, kid-friendly ways to prevent dehydration with broths, teas, juicy foods, red flags, natural remedies and supports.
Healthy Baby, Healthy Birth: Why You Are Not Safer When Doctors Rush Your Pregnancy
Time is a frequently unnamed and unacknowledged medical complication plaguing most births currently taking place in hospitals and even birth centers. Considering the fast-paced nature of modern culture, perhaps it follows that the issue of time is having a never-before-seen, and increasingly disastrous effect, on pregnancy, birth and postpartum recovery.
What To Consider Before Flying in Late Pregnancy
The question of flying while pregnant comes up quite a lot around the holidays. It’s a common season for moms to be overwhelmed by family expectations and traditions, while simultaneously trying to act like their usual energetic selves even though their reserves are already low. The most important question to ask yourself is, How do you really feel about this trip?
Eight Ways to Have a Lovely Postpartum Recovery
Social media promotes and popularize a quick ‘bouncing back’ into life after having a baby. However, as a midwife I’ve seen the wonderful and far-reaching benefits of slowing down after your birth for a few weeks of physical and emotion restoration. The postpartum window is a precious and critical time for mother and baby to recover and settle in. And it helps the entire family to adapt to your new little family member too. Here are eight starting points that help protect you during your postpartum period…..