Everyday Blessings Midwifery

12/13/2025

Help make workplaces better

As the year comes to a close, we’d like to remind you that the Menopause in the Workplace survey is as well. The survey will be closing on December 31st at 11:59 PM so go to
go.mi.gov/zg9wj1553 and take it before time runs out! It only takes 10-15 minutes to complete, all of the questions are optional, and your response is anonymous.

Regardless of your ability to go through menopause, your responses are valued, and we encourage you to take the survey as well. Thank you to everyone who’s already taken it, we look forward to sharing our findings with you in 2026!

12/11/2025

She discovered that breast milk changes its formula based on whether the baby is a boy or girl. Then she found something even more shocking: the baby's spit tells the mother's body what medicine to make.

2008 Katie Hinde stood in a California primate research lab staring at data that didn't make sense.

She was analyzing milk samples from rhesus macaque mothers—hundreds of samples, thousands of measurements.
And the pattern was impossible to ignore:
Mothers with sons produced milk with higher fat and protein concentrations.
Mothers with daughters produced larger volumes with different nutrient ratios.
The milk wasn't the same. It was customized.
Her male colleagues dismissed it immediately. "Measurement error." "Random variation." "Probably nothing."
But Katie Hinde trusted the numbers. And the numbers were screaming something revolutionary:
Milk wasn't just food. It was a message.
For decades, science had treated breast milk like gasoline—a delivery system for calories and nutrients. Simple fuel.
But if milk was just nutrition, why would it be different for sons versus daughters?
Katie kept digging.
She analyzed over 250 mothers across more than 700 sampling events. And with each analysis, the picture became clearer—and more astonishing.
Young, first-time mothers produced milk with fewer calories but dramatically higher cortisol (stress hormone) levels.
Babies who drank this high-cortisol milk grew faster but were more nervous, more vigilant, less confident.
The milk wasn't just feeding the baby's body. It was programming the baby's temperament.
Then Katie discovered something that seemed almost impossible.
When a baby nurses, tiny amounts of saliva travel back through the ni**le into the mother's breast tissue.
That saliva contains information about the baby's immune status.
If the baby is fighting an infection, the mother's body detects it—and begins producing specific antibodies within hours.
The white blood cell count in the milk would jump from 2,000 to over 5,000 during illness. Macrophage counts would quadruple.
Then, once the baby recovered, everything would return to normal.
It was a conversation. A biological dialogue between two bodies.
The baby's spit told the mother what was wrong. The mother's body responded with exactly the medicine needed.
A language invisible to science for centuries.
Katie joined Harvard in 2011 and started digging into existing research.
What she found was disturbing: there were twice as many scientific studies on erectile dysfunction as on breast milk composition.
The world's first food—the substance that nourished every human who ever lived—was scientifically neglected.
So she started a blog with a deliberately provocative title: "Mammals Suck...Milk!"
Within a year: over a million views. Parents, doctors, scientists asking questions research had ignored.
Her discoveries kept coming:

Milk changes throughout the day (fat peaks mid-morning)
Foremilk differs from hindmilk (babies who nurse longer get higher-fat milk at the end)
Over 200 types of oligosaccharides in human milk that babies can't even digest—they exist solely to feed beneficial gut bacteria
Every mother's milk is unique as a fingerprint

In 2017, she delivered a TED talk that millions have watched.
In 2020, she appeared in Netflix's "Babies" docuseries, explaining her discoveries to a global audience.
Today, at Arizona State University's Comparative Lactation Lab, Dr. Katie Hinde continues revealing how milk shapes infant development from the first hours of life.
Her work informs care for fragile infants in NICUs. Improves formula for mothers who can't breastfeed. Shapes public health policy worldwide.
The implications are profound.
Milk has been evolving for 200 million years—longer than dinosaurs.
What science dismissed as "simple nutrition" was actually the most sophisticated biological communication system on Earth.
Katie Hinde didn't just study milk.
She revealed that the most ancient form of nourishment was also the most intelligent—a dynamic, responsive conversation between two bodies that has been shaping human development since the beginning of our species.
All because one scientist refused to accept that half the conversation was "measurement error."
Sometimes the most revolutionary discoveries come from paying attention to what everyone else dismisses.

12/11/2025

I love this perspective! Congratulations as you evolve!

12/03/2025

Enjoy 😉

12/01/2025

You DO deserve care - compassionate, educational, supportive care - for all aspects of you!

11/11/2025

11/05/2025

We need a paradigm shift here: Menopause care is health care. Treatment with hormones (especially early in menopause) shows great potential in REDUCING risk for heart disease (the most common killer of women), reducing osteoporosis, reducing dementia. Hormone therapy has a very small impact on breast cancer (both positive and negative impact). In addition, hormones are necessary for muscle growth, bone integrity, strength to reduce fall risk, skin integrity, brain function, and so much more.
On top of the actual health benefits, symptom management leads to better quality of life (less joint and muscle pain, better sleep, less hot flashes, less dryness - eyes, skin, nether regions - and less brain fog).
Hormones are not for everyone (although everyone can use vaginal estrogen to help with issues and reduce risk for bladder infections). There are other options for symptom management too.
The point is, your health is important, and menopause impacts your health. You get to deal with it however you want - but you need to be informed so you can make choices that are right for you.

MONDAY, Nov. 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Women are gritting out menopause without seeking any treatment for their symptoms, a new Mayo Clinic study says.More tha

11/04/2025

I don’t know anything about red light therapy. But I do know about hormone therapy, and collagen. Hormone therapy helps a lot of women with this. If you see yourself in this, consider finding the certified menopause practitioner to help you.

11/04/2025

Important info about heart disease

11/03/2025

💊 Let’s talk about Vi**ra.

When a man struggles with sexual function, it’s called a medical condition.
When a woman struggles with desire, arousal, or pain—it’s called normal aging.

Men get medication.
Women get a pep talk.

That’s the hypocrisy of Vi**ra.

We’ve built a healthcare system that decided men’s pleasure is biological and women’s is emotional. But women’s sexual health is just as real, just as physical, and just as deserving of research, funding, and treatment.

It’s time to stop normalizing male sexual function as medical—and female sexual struggles as “just stress.”

Your pleasure isn’t a luxury. It’s health.
And we’re done waiting.

Read the full piece on Substack — link in bio.