I Can't Afford a Homebirth and Other Money Issues

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First Babies Can Fall Out But Often They Don't

Taking Back Birth

Are You a Birth Witch?

Spirituality

How We Named 
Our Babies

Mothering

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***Hundreds of women every day come here to read this story. You are not alone, dear one. And if you need more support, we do offer virtual midwifery sessions that include miscarriage support, preconception support and holding space for pregnancy loss. The weeks and months after miscarriage ARE a postpartum (literally meaning “after pregnancy”) time […]

A Miscarriage Story

Pregnancy

Sometimes I forget that the idea of doing your own prenatal care isn’t something most people have ever thought about or heard of. Someone asked me about my pregnancy at a dinner party the other day, and another guest asked if “they know what I’m having”. I explained that I’m not having any unwarranted testing […]

DIY Prenatal Care at 16 Weeks

Pregnancy

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I am super excited to share my recent experience with ordering my own lab work. I have a pretty clear plan for this pregnancy as far as what labs I want and when I want them, and I have been fortunate enough to have a very good friend and naturopath order my early pregnancy labs […]

Ordering Your Own Lab Work

Pregnancy

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I haven’t written anything new in a while now because for the last two months I’ve been in the midst of my own pregnancy experiences again, waiting until I actually felt like I had something I could say about any of it. It’s hard to write about pregnancy and birth from a third party perspective […]

Pregnancy After Loss

Pregnancy

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It is no secret that most women in the US have serious emotional issues around their weight and their size. We are bombarded by media images of stick thin models and movie stars, we hear our mothers talk about their disappointment with their own weight, perhaps we were even told directly by parents, sports coaches, […]

Revolutionizing the Way We Think About Weight

Pregnancy

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Birth photography is booming, and we are seeing more and more birth photos of all varieties circulating online. Jenni Goldman, an incredibly talented photographer and Indie Birth Trustee, has come along to some Indie Births, and her photos are truly awe inspiring. They have created dialogue and discussion, and have served as educational tools for […]

Birth Photography – Digging Deeper

Midwifery

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In honor of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day today, October 15th, I want to acknowledge all of those who have lost babies too soon – my prayer on this day is that we can collectively shift our culture so that all of us are supported and nurtured on every level through our process in […]

Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day – Honoring the Mamas and Those That Support Them

Miscarriage and Loss

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This isn’t a post about how to chart your fertility, or use fertility awareness to avoid or achieve pregnancy naturally (posts and classes on that in the near future though!). These are four reasons that charting your fertility is awesome, beyond the obvious avoiding/achieving pregnancy aspects. 1. Because it is a super interesting science project. […]

4 More Reasons to Chart Your Fertility

Fertility

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