Some say that having a birth plan sets up unrealistic ideals for your births. And while if you have rigid expectations, that may be true. However, we feel that writing the birth plan isn’t what is important.
Local Business Spotlight: Grow, Eco Baby
Grow, Eco Baby in downtown Cary is a wonderful boutique and the feature of local business spotlight this month!
Optimizing Feedings With A Newborn PLUS Printable Feeding Log
When you have a newborn, the consistent worry of making sure your baby is getting enough to eat is completely normal! Whether you are breastfeeding or bottle feeding, the key to feeling confident about having a fed baby is optimizing each and every feeding. Below are a few of our favorite tips:
Mantras for Parenthood
We often talk with our birth doula clients about using affirmations and mantras to help with the birth process as they can be extremely helpful to cope. And in the same light, using affirmations as a new parent can be encouraging. Here are a few of our favorites:
Pregnancy, Birth, and Having a Newborn During A Power Outage
Whether you are (fast) approaching your estimated date of delivery, have a newborn, or just have little kids, the possibility of Hurricane Frances hitting Raleigh in the next few days is a bit scary!
Provider Spotlight: Kelly Raney, Pelvic Floor PT
We have had the privilege of knowing Kelly Raney, PT, DPT, CFm, PRPC of EmergeOrtho, for a few years now, and are so happy to have connected with her.
Spinach Smoothie with Chocolate
Entertaining a Toddler While Nursing a Newborn
Learning about your new baby and how to nurse can be challenging enough, but also dealing with a busy toddler AND nursing a newborn? Well, that is when the Mom Superpowers really show.
You put that where? All about Period Cups!
Transitional Engorgement
As your body is transitioning from colostrum to milk, breast engorgement can be a common, but very uncomfortable, symptom of that transition.
Breastfeeding Should Not Hurt
Provider Spotlight: Veronica Kemeny of Women's Wellness Space
We have known Veronica Kemeny of Women's Wellness Space in Raleigh for about a year, and we so happy that we do!
Tips for Dealing with Unhelpful Family Members
Everyone gets excited to see a new baby, it is just natural. You should see the way my head whips around when a baby rolls by in a stroller. But sometimes, new parents don’t want those extra visitors coming to their home, even if it those visitors have the best intentions.
Protective Factors to Help Strengthen Your Growing Family
These five protective factors can help protect, build, strengthen and promote healthy parent and child development.
The Golden Hour Redefined
The “Golden Hour” has become very popular to discuss within the birthing community in the past few years.
Provider Spot: Autumn Ehsaei, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN)
At a recent health fair where we providing cooperate chair massage, we had the pleasure of running into Autumn Ehsaei of Perennial Nutrition, and we hit it off!
CBW As A Top Birth Blog
We are so excited to be featured on the Top 30 Birth Blogs from Feedspot.com!
What To Do With Your Placenta After Birth
Birth is commonly divided into 3 stages: labor, pushing, and placenta delivery. So often the first two stages are well researched, but the third stage can be overlooked. Not today!
Infant Behavioral States
Just like you, infants sometimes are not in the mood for certain activities. While they cannot verbalize that, parents, babysitters, and other guardians begin to notice signs of what the baby is feeling.
Postpartum Toolkit + Free Printable
Planning for a new baby is full of unknowns. Will your baby sleep? Will you sleep? Will your baby eat? Will you feel like yourself? And so many more questions that you won’t know the answer to until your baby arrives.
