If you want to grow a baby that’s delicious enough to nibble on (this is a real thing), it’s good to start off from a healthy and nourished place. Here are some of the tools I use as a midwife to help folks planning a pregnancy.
All in Pregnancy
Swiping Right on Your Provider
You wouldn’t go on a second date with a guy who didn’t listen to you, or belittled you, or made you feel like he didn’t have time for you. Why would you go to a second prenatal appointment with a provider who makes you feel that way?
Recent research suggests that supplementing with probiotics in pregnancy can minimize GBS colonization.
Being pregnant during periods of anxiety, grief, and anger can be complicated. We know that the stress that we experience in pregnancy is also experienced by our babies. Cultural traditions worldwide recommend that pregnant women not look at or think about upsetting things. Unfortunately, that's not the reality that we live in, or that of many of our sisters around the globe.
Did you know that bacteria outnumber your human cells by about 9:1? Yup. We are more bacterial than human, by far.