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Be Well Baby Support for pregnancy and postpartum including physical therapy, yoga, bodywork, lactation support, and birth education.

Over-prepare for birth and postpartum with Dr. Emily Spaeth.

04/25/2026

“The room wasn’t built for me” 🤍�
Malakai Benson (they/them) is a non-binary parent, Baba, and baker — and they said some things in this episode that I genuinely cannot stop thinking about 🫶🏼�
🎧 Hit play. You’ll understand. 🌈�
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!�
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Episode 27- Nonbinary Birth: How Language Builds Worlds 🌈💚 Representation in birth spaces isn't just about a pronoun on ...
04/24/2026

Episode 27- Nonbinary Birth: How Language Builds Worlds 🌈

💚 Representation in birth spaces isn't just about a pronoun on a form

It's about whether you feel safe enough to show up. Whether you trust that the people caring for you actually see you. Whether you'd even walk through the door in the first place.

This week's guest, Malakai Benson (they/them), is a non-binary parent (Baba 🥹), Head Baker at Moxie Bread Company, and one of the most grounded, generous humans I've had the honor of knowing — and sitting down with on this podcast 🎙️
They talk about being pregnant while their identity was still unfolding, choosing to skip prenatal community spaces entirely, a hospital lactation encounter that changed the course of their feeding journey, and what it looks like when your eight-year-old becomes your biggest advocate on the soccer field. 🫶🏼

If you work with birthing families, please give this episode a listen.

🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!

04/22/2026

“I didn’t realize how much we NEEDED this.”

One mom told us she started doing just a few minutes of massage before bed…
and within days, her baby was settling faster, passing gas more easily, and sleeping longer stretches.

THIS is why we teach infant massage (and carry that in our toolkit on home visits too!).

And once you know how to do it, you have that tool for GOOD.

If you’re in Portland and want to learn, we have just a couple seats left for our Infant Massage Workshop this Friday at the !

Bring your baby and walk away with skills you’ll use every single day.

If you’ve been thinking about it, this is your sign!! Comment CALM and we’ll send you the sign up info!

April 24 | 12–2 PM
📍 The Flourish Center
2505 SW Spring Garden St, Suite 200
Portland, OR 97219

04/19/2026

Giving your baby a massage is often described as “relaxing.” And it is...

But it’s also SO MUCH MORE than that. tells us that she wishes all new parents knew this one thing.

Intentional touch can support many of the things new parents are quietly trying to figure out:

• helping a baby settle when they’re overstimulated
• supporting digestion and easing gas
• improving sleep
• bringing awareness to tight or tense areas in the body
• improving feeding

We’ll learn and practice on your baby, and there’s still room to sign up! Comment CALM and we’ll send you the link,

April 24 | 12–2 PM
📍 The Flourish Center
2505 SW Spring Garden St, Suite 200
Portland, OR 97219

Episode 26 | Reframing Grief in Pregnancy & Postpartum with Alyssa Rose 🌿Grief isn't just about death, and it doesn't ha...
04/17/2026

Episode 26 | Reframing Grief in Pregnancy & Postpartum with Alyssa Rose 🌿

Grief isn't just about death, and it doesn't have an endpoint 💛

In this episode, Emily sits down with Portland-based Grief Guide and Ritualist Alyssa Rose to explore why grief shows up in parenthood in such surprising ways and what becomes possible when we stop trying to reach the other side of it.

Alyssa weaves somatic bodywork, ritual practice, and deep grief literacy into her work, helping people move through loss in ways that build connection rather than isolation 🤍

This is a conversation we think every parent needs to hear 🎙️

🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts

Episode 25: You're Not Just Flexible: What EDS Really Means for Pregnancy, Birth, and PostpartumA solo episode from me t...
04/09/2026

Episode 25: You're Not Just Flexible: What EDS Really Means for Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum

A solo episode from me to you 🩷

If you've ever been dismissed, told your pain was "just pregnancy," or knew something was off with your connective tissue and couldn't get anyone to listen... this one is for you.

Hypermobile EDS affects up to 1 in 500 people — and most don't even know it. It's time to change that.

🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.

04/08/2026

Babies deserve to know what’s about to happen to their body even before they have words.

We put all these in place to get the baby’s body ready for a massage:
• Auditory cues. Simply rubbing your hands together with the oil can be a great, natural signal!
• Visual cues. Making eye contact, letting them see your hands, slowing down
• Touch prep. Resting your hands gently before moving, giving their body time to respond

Then we watch.

Do they soften?
Do they turn toward you?
Do they engage?

That’s their version of consent.

When babies feel prepared, their nervous system settles.
They’re even MORE receptive, MORE relaxed, and MORE able to benefit from the touch.

This isn’t about doing a routine TO your baby.
It’s about doing it WITH them.

If you want to learn how to read your baby’s cues and confidently incorporate massage into your routine, join me for our Infant Massage Workshop.

We’ll walk through all of this together in real time, with your baby. Comment CALM and I’ll send you the link to sign up!

April 24
12-2 PM
Wise Mama Collective
1616 SE Ankeny St, Portland, OR 97214

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Portland, OR
97219

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Monday 7:30am - 2:30pm
Friday 7:30am - 2:30pm

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+15038938310

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