I just read a fantastic news article that explained what many midwives have been proclaiming all along. A pregnancy does not last a set amount of time. In fact, it can vary up up to five weeks! Previously attributed to flawed methods of estimating due dates such as conception and …
UPDATE: Thank you to everyone who immediately and profusely reported that page. Twenty minutes after this post originally was published, two hundred of you had already read it and many of you have let me know you reported the page. It has now been taken down. NICE WORK…. You are …
In 1998, Crystal, the owner of Everything Birth, attended her first hospital birth as a doula. The doctor at that birth was an advocate of birth choices. After that hospital birth with a supportive doctor, Crystal set her sights on becoming a midwife. Her long term goal was to help change …
Omega-3 fatty acids are crucial during all stages of life, but especially during pregnancy. We were issued a friendly reminder yesterday by Live Science staff writer, Bahar Gholipour, when she spotlighted new research just published in PLOS ONE about how eating fish during pregnancy reduces anxiety. She wrote about the study, …
It sucks that we have to worry about MRSA infecting our babies. With the abundant use of antibiotics in our food and the overuse of it in our medicine, however, we do. It’s a very common problem. Some people choose to use disposable diapers citing MRSA concerns. That is understandable, …
At OSU’s Wexner Medical Center, researchers are looking into a natural approach for the treatment of children with depression and a kind of bipolar disorder. I’m sure many of you in this natural parenting community find this news as positive as I do. There are just too many medications being …
Data compiled over a 40 year span seems to indicate that breast cancer screening through mammography makes no actual impact on breast cancer mortality statistics. The research was published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. It analyzed mortality trends in the Oxford region of England before and after the …
When discussing natural foods, the topic of meat regularly comes up. Just recently, someone suggested to me that meat that comes from animals raised without antibiotics is disgusting because it’s somehow “dirtier” than meat that comes from animals who were given antibiotics. The idea presented to me was: Farmers who …
MRI results show the dramatic impact that breastfeeding has on the brain development of babies. A study out of Brown University was able to find actual evidence that by the age of 2, babies exclusively breastfed (for at least three months) babies had greater development in important areas of the brain …
To be an informed parent, we have to do our own research. I’ve gone through a process from trusting the information handed to me by professionals to learning to do my own research. It didn’t hurt that I learned in college where to find the information and how to decipher …
