10 Tips for Eating Mindfully as a New Mom
Mindful Eating We all have a relationship with food. These relationships are as complex and unique as each one of us. We eat to nourish, to connect, to soothe, to heal, to celebrate, and a hundred other varied reasons. The relationship changes over time. The relationship you had with food …
Grieving the Loss of the Pre-Baby Body
“I love this baby and I love being a mom but I just want to look and feel as good as I did before.” Whether a woman says this aloud or keeps this belief quietly to herself, this sentiment is both common and expected during the Motherhood Transition. This shared …
Healing from a Traumatic C-Section (Mentally and Physically)
Some women choose a cesarean birth and it is an empowered and educated decision; we fully support those women. But some women don’t plan to birth surgically at all, and end up with a birth story that is drastically different from the plan they had in place. This blog is …
Healing from a Traumatic Vaginal Birth
If there is one thing that you can count on during birth, it is that birth is an unpredictable process. Birth can leave deep emotional wounds, some of which we may want to erase. Unfortunately, as conscious humans, we cannot just erase these unfavorable memories and we must process these …
I tore down there during birth; how do I heal?
You have just completed a major life event, giving BIRTH! You imagined you would be thrilled, ecstatic, and at peace enjoying the new life you brought earthside, yet somehow you find yourself IN TEARS, suffering, and still in PAIN! I tore WHERE during birth? You had an idea of how …
Quick Tips for Combating Nausea and Vomiting
First Trimester Nausea Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy: it’s classically called morning sickness, but let’s not sugar coat it – morning sickness is not exclusive to the morning. As someone just coming through her first trimester, this topic feels personal. Fortunately, about 60% of women experience a decrease in symptoms …
How to restore fertility while breastfeeding (and maintain breastfeeding)
Imagine a world in which women can sit down and share their wisdom about pregnancy, fertility, breastfeeding, and child spacing. Imagine how much support and love and information would be passed from to each of us to our friends and future daughters. While many of us did not get the …
Four Lab Tests Every Mom Needs After Baby Arrives
After baby arrives, everyone is rightfully concerned with testing and monitoring the health of this brand new bundle of life. From nearly their first breath, babies are pricked, tapped, and tested for everything under the sun. Unfortunately, the standard postpartum testing for mom still leaves something to be desired. As …
Second Trimester BIRTHFIT Lifting Modifications
Working out in the Second Trimester – Weightlifting Welcome to the second trimester! By the numbers, this timeframe is widely regarded as weeks 13-27. This can be both an awesome and frustrating time for the pregnant athlete. It’s awesome because her cardiovascular and respiratory adaptations will have taken place resulting …
Chiropractic Care: Supporting the Breastfeeding Relationship
Chiropractic Care and Breastfeeding As a chiropractor who specializes in prenatal and pediatric care, I often have women bring babies into my office because they heard chiropractic can improve their breastfeeding relationship. And that is true! Regardless of how your baby enters the world, the birth process places a great …