Heart2Heart Birth Matters & EOs

10/04/2015

when they don't call you until too late...... WA-HOOOOO they DID it.... and when you knew they were going to? even more awesomeness!! congrats momma!!!

09/11/2015

09/04/2015

When parents' egos are more fragile than newborn babies' bodies, it is the babies who will suffer.

"The elephant in the room is that some cultures do practice non-therapeutic infant circumcision as a traditional practice. Perhaps this is a ‘grandfather right’. But it is not consistent with modern standards of law, ethics or human rights to remove a normal fo****in from a normal unconsenting child."
http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/pdf/Dalton_2007.pdf

09/03/2015

love these! and in a place where the c-section rate is well over 50% and they had a homebirth.... SO AWESOME!!

Photographer Gustavo Gomes said that he hopes his daughter will be able to experience "a bit of the great adventure it was receiving her".

08/07/2015

session B.... HAS BEGUN!! whoop whoop

06/15/2015

get your b***y movin......

Moderate exercise during pregnancy reduces the risk for gestational diabetes and decreases maternal weight gain, according to a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

05/08/2015

wow... THEY don't have TIME or ROOM for her to TRY.... what would YOU do?

05/05/2015

This photo was posted on my timeline, in a private message and I posted it on my page. It kept being removed. It was removed by other people who posted it too on their pages. It's not a new story b...

05/03/2015

Many women have never been given a chance to labor naturally.

03/08/2015

Big Fat Lie.... Doctors do not urge patience and longer labor to reduce c-sections... but they SHOULD!

For many women, a safe, healthy labor lasts longer than the times cited as normal, according to guidelines from the nation's obstetricians. Giving women more time ups the odds of a vaginal delivery.

03/07/2015

Sounding the alarm about keepsake ultrasounds Mar. 07, 2015 @ 12:01 AM Everyone has a favorite keepsake stashed in a drawer somewhere - a withered corsage from the prom; a yellowing newspaper write-up of the first high-school soccer game you played in; or something less conventional. Actress and pop…

03/02/2015

Being worried about Child Protection Services (CPS) taking her child was the last thing on the mind of Anne Giroux, a mother living in Washington State who was seeking medical treatment for her son, Kevin Kulman. Kevin started having concerning symptoms which drove her to take him to multiple doctor…