The other night, a friend called me, half panicked about what she considered unusual signs and symptoms. I listened to her story and said, “You’re…
These days, we hear women proclaim the importance empowerment. We hear them express their need to become empowered. They help other women to become empowered.…
During thirty-plus years in maternal-child nursing, mothers have told me many reasons for why they believe they can’t breastfeed, or why they don’t want to.…
The American Psychological Association reports that up to 1 in 7 mothers experience postpartum depression. The prevalence of postpartum depression among mothers who have experienced it previously is…
Military service members and their families are often stationed miles, and even oceans, away from extended family. Certainly a doula is a wonderful asset during…
Now that marijuana is legalized in several US states, parents often assume that it’s safe to use marijuana while breastfeeding or during pregnancy. But before…
As I’ve explained before, breastfeeding protects against breast cancer. But YES, it’s absolutely possible to breastfeed after having breast cancer. True, the treatment you’ve had…
I’ve had chiropractic care for decades, so I thought I pretty much knew what chiropractors did (and didn’t do). Yet, only moments before I opened…
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that the flu results in between 9.3 and 49 million illnesses each year in the United States alone.…
Breast pump manufacturers have done a great job of convincing mothers that their product is as much a “must have” new-parent item as diapers and…