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Natural Birth During COVID-19
Read more: Natural Birth During COVID-19Listen to Janice’s story and learn how, with no doula, Janice’s husband supported her through natural birth during the COVID-19 crisis in NEW YORK where the most rigid hospital restrictions exist.
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Mama Bear Awakened: From Adversity to Advocacy
Read more: Mama Bear Awakened: From Adversity to AdvocacyFor me…stories are data. So the more people that will tell their story, and the more people that will listen to others tell their stories, I think that’s really when you start to see change; because as much as we need science, we also need lived experience. We need people who are living this day…
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Preeclampsia & Stillbirth: Insight from a grieving Mother
Read more: Preeclampsia & Stillbirth: Insight from a grieving MotherI had swelling so bad. I was a size and a half higher in my shoes…I didn’t have ankles for months…The swelling later on spread to my hands and face…more indicative to preeclampsia. Miranda Hernandez My name is Miranda Hernandez, and a little over 3 years ago, my son Adrian James was stillborn at term…
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Fall Mood: On A Dark September Morning I Birthed a Brown Baby and Telling This Story Is Giving My Family Peace
Read more: Fall Mood: On A Dark September Morning I Birthed a Brown Baby and Telling This Story Is Giving My Family PeaceThis fall blew in like a mighty rushing wind–kind of how my 5th pregnancy unfolded. The times were muddy, but clouded in a fog of oxytocin and birth, we saw bounty and celebrated instead. We invite you to re-reminisce with us this fall.
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Doula and Founder of Malawi’s House, Shayla Bryant Encourages Black Women To Birth Fearlessly
Read more: Doula and Founder of Malawi’s House, Shayla Bryant Encourages Black Women To Birth FearlesslyWhen it comes to giving birth, Shayla Bryant wants Black women to realize their power and celebrate the joy of bringing life into the world with the absence of fear.
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PCOS and Endometriosis Diagnosis Fueled Raye the Doula To Heal Herself and Help Others
Read more: PCOS and Endometriosis Diagnosis Fueled Raye the Doula To Heal Herself and Help OthersThough diagnosed in 2016 with PCOS, endometriosis, and infertility, Raven—aka Raye the Doula—was determined to maintain her future and her dream of becoming a mother by healing herself and by extending that healing to her community through a career in birthwork.
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Unassisted Births Are On The Rise During COVID-19: Here’s Why—Genesis Birthing and Living
Read more: Unassisted Births Are On The Rise During COVID-19: Here’s Why—Genesis Birthing and LivingFaced with the COVID-19 pandemic, the rapid closures of maternal healthcare facilities, overextended home birth midwives, and a national housing crisis that left us homeless; my husband and I took refuge in natural, home, and unassisted birth in the urban southwest and in the rural southeast. Here’s how. By Shayla Brown The National Problem In…
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Envision Health: Creative Expression Workshop
Read more: Envision Health: Creative Expression WorkshopSaturday, January 25, local Phoenix organization, Our Mothers and Us (OMUS) held its first event of 2020. The event entitled; Envision Health: Creative Expression Workshop; is the brainchild of OMUS founder and Arizona native, Bianca Comer. The event is “designed to encourage knowledge-sharing, fellowship, self-advocacy, and self-care to ensure healthy pregnancies and transitions into parenting.”…
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What to Expect: Materni-TEA Mixer for New and Expecting Moms
Read more: What to Expect: Materni-TEA Mixer for New and Expecting MomsMy goals for Materni-TEA: Mixer for New and Expecting Moms are to:
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Believe and You WILL Achieve: 1 Mom’s Guide to a Natural Childbirth
Read more: Believe and You WILL Achieve: 1 Mom’s Guide to a Natural Childbirth“Labor is not a medical emergency”, that’s what I kept telling myself before I gave birth. It was a phrase my doula extended to me…
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