Sharing knowledge and experiences for the Natural Momma
The Golden Hour After Birth: Enjoy it Momma!
The first hour after baby is born is often referred to as The Golden Hour. When momma and baby are able to spend an undisturbed hour practicing skin-to-skin care after birth, the Golden Hour has a number of benefits for both mom and baby. This is a special...
How To Create The Perfect Birth Plan For Your Home Birth
When it comes to planning your home birth, one of the most important things you can do is create a detailed, researched, and thoughtful birth plan. Now I want to say right off the bat, I hesitate to use the term “birth plan”. My own midwife exclusively uses the...
Congrats! You’re Pregnant: 13 Things You Need to Think About or Do Now
When we find out we're pregnant, so many thoughts, ideas, and questions are swirling around in our heads! After all, it is the scariest, most exciting time in our lives! It gives us so much to look forward to, but with all the excitement, it can be hard to figure out...
HypnoBirthing: A Complete Guide to this Natural Childbirth Technique
As a momma who is planning a home birth, or natural birth in a birth center or hospital, it’s smart to get prepared with a variety of pain management techniques and natural child birthing strategies. Approaching your birth with a toolkit of strategies and preparations...
Must-Know Positions for Laboring During Your Home Birth
With your home birth approaching, now is the time to read and learn as much as you can about the childbirth process. You’ve already made the decision to birth in your home, so you know your space will be calm, relaxing, and optimized for the birth you desire. As...
Essential Guide to Home Birth: Tips, Supplies and More
Have you ever wondered what it might be like to give birth? Sure, what woman hasn't, right? But have you ever entertained the idea of birthing at home, without a doctor, perhaps even without a midwife? There are different types of home birth—from unassisted to...
What to Expect From a Home Birth: A Home Birth Momma Tells All
Natural childbirth is an amazing feat. Women have been giving birth to their babies without epidurals or other pain medications for centuries. While our modern-day society has led many astray into the belief that birthing at home without a doctor is inherently unsafe,...
28 Must Ask Questions to Ask Your Doula: And a Few For Yourself
Let's start things off right, because not everyone truly understands what a doula is and what they do, even though it's become a rather trendy thing to talk about these days in the birth circuit. What Is A Doula? Many expectant mothers enter into their first pregnancy...
Tips For Recovery After A (Natural) Home Birth
There's so much excitement surrounding a baby. We're thrilled to try to conceive (if we get the memo that we're TTC before we conceive, that is). We're elated to see those two pink lines pop up on the test stick—and the other sticks that follow that we can't help but...
What To Do With Your Placenta After Your Home Birth?
After you give birth to your baby, your midwife will be carefully watching and waiting for the delivery of your placenta. You might not have thought too much about it before now but, what should you do with your placenta after birth? There are actually a lot...
5 Ways to Find Out the Gender of Your Baby
It can be an antagonizing waiting game from the time you get the exciting news that you are pregnant until the doctor can tell the gender of your baby. Believe me, I didn't find out I was having a boy until I was 7 months pregnant. Wouldn't it be awesome if we could...
The Fourth Trimester: Physical and Emotional Changes and How to Handle Them
Can I be real with you for a moment? Postpartum recovery isn't always easy. I know, I know; we love to pretend it is. We want to believe the women who swear they were up and loving life just hours after birth—especially natural birth. I'm not saying that can't happen....
