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11/28/2021

CORVALLIS, Ore. — Oregon State University researchers have conducted the largest study of water births to date and found they were associated with better overall outcomes than non-water births. Water births had a lower risk of several maternal and neonatal outcomes, including postpartum hemorrhage...

11/16/2021

10/26/2021

The United States is exceptional.

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08/31/2021

07/12/2021

Postpartum depressive is real and any parent can suffer from it.

"Paternal PPD isn’t on the radar of many fathers yet."

07/08/2021

They are two healthy babies, three months old, both exclusively breastfeeding and, believe me, neither the one on the left is obese, nor the one on the right is undernourished. They are variations of normality! Most likely, when they start crawling, the one on the left will slim down a little and the one on the right will gain muscle mass.
Do not compare your child to other children.
Each of us is different.

06/19/2021

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06/01/2021

When I was in my late teens, I overheard an elder relative make a disparaging comment about one of my uncle’s wives and how her “old nasty breast milk” was to blame for some minor ailment my baby c…

05/02/2021

04/24/2021

How shameful is it that the United States gives ZERO weeks of paid maternity leave? About as shameful as it gets.

04/19/2021

NEW REPORT: Untreated Maternal Mental Health Costs Texas $2.2 Billion Per Year

Building on its seminal report in 2019, which estimated the cost of untreated maternal mental health conditions (MMHCs) in the United States at $14.2 billion, a new Mathematica Report puts the spotlight on Texas, estimating the cost of untreated conditions at $2.2 billion per year.

Read the full report on Texas here:https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5728d34462cd94b84dc567ed/t/60401649d964b7095ce349eb/1614812746062/mathematica-issue-brief-tx-mmhc.pdf

Read the 2019 report here: https://www.mathematica.org/our-publications-and-findings/publications/societal-costs-of-untreated-perinatal-mood-and-anxiety-disorders-in-the-united-states

03/26/2021

The policy will give parents the right to three days of paid leave when a pregnancy ends in stillbirth. "Their grief is not a sickness, it is a loss. And loss takes time," said the bill's initiator.

02/03/2021

Working from home has made breastfeeding easier. Let’s hope the flexibility lasts even after the pandemic ends.

12/17/2020

11/10/2019

PERSPECTIVE | I was born into the hands of a midwife. It’s a tradition that shouldn’t fade away.

11/06/2019

Solano HEALS is doing something about this. Go to their page and attend their upcoming event in Vallejo.

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 44 of 100,000 African American/black births result in the mother dying due to health and treatment related complications. This statistic is significantly higher than any other ethnic groups.

Please come join us at Solano HEALS to see how we are addressing these issues through the strategies determined by the community. Our next Community Action Meeting will be on Wednesday, November 20, 2019, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM at the JFK Library Joseph Room in Vallejo, CA.

11/06/2019

This.

11/04/2019

https://www.facebook.com/100004923497331/posts/1318189901688447/