Beyond Baby Talk with Ayelet Marinovich For first time parents, babies can be scary since they have extremely limited communication skills. (After multiple children, it can be nice when they’re pre-verbal for a while.) How do we effectively communicate with our babies when they can’t talk yet? When should they talk? How do we encourage […]
Podcast Episode: Postpartum Support with Doula Lynsey Haynes In the United States, postpartum recovery can seem like a competitive sport. How fast you can get “back” to your pre-baby body/weight/jeans/life/etc. But what if we took a page from cultures around the world who focus on the postpartum period as a transition for the parents and […]
My first birth almost three and a half years ago was an unmedicated vaginal birth in a hospital. We had a doula and everything went well. He was born just under 12 hours from my first contraction which got steadily faster and stronger until he was born. I’ll post more about the process of […]