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With the COVID-19 pandemic, more moms are choosing to give birth at home or in free-standing birth centers. And for good reason! Fear of…
At Healthy Mom&Baby, we’re all about health. And just like you, we like to look good, too. So, when it came time to write…
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Giving birth is a powerful, joyful, and yes, painful experience. Happily, birthing people have lots of choices to help cope with pain relief during…
So, you’re planning to breastfeed. You’ve read books and blogs, and maybe you’ve taken a breastfeeding class. You know that breastfeeding is “natural,” but…
The idea of a Mother’s Blessing is based on a sacred Navajo ritual called a Blessing Way. Modern women created the Mother’s Blessing (sometimes…
We live in a world where love, gentle parenting, LGBTQ activism, social justice reform and science have brought us to a place where people…
Did you know that you can still breastfeed your baby even if you did not give birth to them? Even if you were never…
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