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Demystifying Midwife-Supported Natural Childbirth Part 2: Safety

When I tell people that I birthed my son in a free standing birth center with a midwife attending, and that we will be birthing our second child at home with the same midwives, one of the first questions out of people’s mouths is “What if something happens?”. As I mentioned in Part 1 of [...]

Demystifying Midwife-Supported Natural Childbirth Part 1: Misconceptions and Facts About Midwives

Women’s strongest feelings [in terms of their birthings], positive and negative, focus on the way they were treated by their caregivers. ~Annie Kennedy & Penny Simkin Normally when I tell people I birthed my son in a freestanding birth center with a midwife attending, I am met with either blank stares, a confused “Oh” with [...]

Natural Morning Sickness Remedies

It is estimated between 50-80 percent of pregnant women suffer from nausea and vomiting during pregnancy. Commonly called morning sickness, this nausea and vomiting can last all day long. Although I did not have any morning sickness during my pregnancy, before I was pregnant I gathered lots of information about natural remedies for morning sickness [...]