Descent Into Motherhood

Since I started breastfeeding, I've become an avid reader of breastfeeding discussion boards, sites like kellymom.com, journal articles,...

You'd think that a love song would be sung to the love of one's life, but in the case of the song below (Dana Glover's It is You...

As my readers know, I experienced PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) after the birth of my first child. It was because the process of giv...

It is known that anxiety interferes with the hormones of labour - and what perfect sense this makes. In nature if a woman is anxious it may ...

Today, I visited the Nordic Heritage Museum where I learned that it is the Finnish who are famous for the inventions of the sauna (correctly...

This article was passed on to me by Carla Hartley, founder of the Trust Birth Initiative. A new book says that women should routinely have ...

As a mama, I'm just discovering the beauty of bartering; trading skill for skill, or skill for goods, etc. Now that I have discovered it...

I realize now. I live in a climate of willfull ignorance, refusing to be aware. Instead, hiding behind my excuses. "I didn't know....

I have been wanting to see video of the breast crawl (the newborn's ability to latch on to mother's nipple without assistance). Ther...

I walked through wide open fields, mists of fog, along a flowing river, until I came to a path that ran straight and true. Culminating in a ...