First-time parents are strongly advised by obstetricians, labor and delivery nurses, midwives, and doulas to recommend prenatal classes, also known as labor and childbirth preparation classes. Through a women’s health group, birth center, or hospital, numerous classes can be taken in person. However, what if you are unable to attend an IRL class for other […]
It is normal for women who get close to their due date to overthinking everything. Not only do they get worried about the labor itself, but also about the period after the baby comes. Once the nesting takes place, pregnant women want everything goes smoothly and perfectly. In that sense, in the last weeks of […]
Eating placenta might sound like the most hippie of hippie-dippie pursuits. But if an article in New York magazine is to be believed, eating your afterbirth (or placentophagia) is trés, trés chic. In Western hospitals, placenta has traditionally been disposed of alongside medical waste. Some women would ask to take their placenta home with them […]
It always amuses me when something concerning pregnancy, birth, or parenting pops up as a “trend.” Odds are, that “trend” has been in practice for ages, but most likely in non-urban, non-privileged, non-U.S. areas. Take, for example, the notion of using midwives to deliver babies over OB-GYNs. Only when it hit Brooklyn and the New York […]
Birth: one of the most private, personal and intimate moments of a woman’s life. And for good reason — most usually end with a baby being pushed out of a vagina, and that’s pretty damn intimate. Yet at the same time, how one births has been long debated, challenged, and talked about in public, with […]
If you have been in a one mile radius of me anytime in the past few weeks, you have probably heard me tell you all about how I love “Call The Midwife,” mention I’m going home to watch “Call The Midwife,” or suggest you watch “Call The Midwife.” That is because — yup — I […]
