By Katie Kelly, former babywearing educator with Babywearing International of Central Iowa. So you’re interested in babywearing? It’s a long tradition in much of the world to wear your baby close and visible at all times. But sometimes the terms and carriers used can...
This is a PSA to the women who are told their gynecological and obstetric pelvic pain require surgery or drugs to improve. I got my period when I was 9 and shortly after started taking massive doses of ibuprofen monthly. As a young girl I regularly visited the...
My body has become completely foreign to me after baby #2…any of you feel like that?!? I don’t even know how clothes are suppose to feel anymore, and I haven’t felt “good” about how I look in 5 months. Every shirt I pick out in the...
If baby is 6 months old and you’re back to your pre-baby weight, but still look pregnant, or if you’ve been doing ab exercises but don’t seem to be getting anywhere, then a Diastasis Recti Abdominis (DRA) might be to blame. To start re-building your abs after baby...
Question… When you think about the experience of giving birth, what words or images come to mind for you? Did your answer happen to include empowerment? My hope is that perhaps some of those adjectives came to your mind. More commonly when I ask this question in the...
Written by: Melissa Schnurr, PhD, CD(DONA) During my first pregnancy, I continued to attend my regular yoga class and my instructor did the best he could to help me modify. After my daughter’s birth, I reflected on how I used my breath and connection to my body to...
