When you have a newborn, the consistent worry of making sure your baby is getting enough to eat is completely normal! Whether you are breastfeeding or bottle feeding, the key to feeling confident about having a fed baby is optimizing each and every feeding. Below are a few of our favorite tips:
Mantras for Parenthood
We often talk with our birth doula clients about using affirmations and mantras to help with the birth process as they can be extremely helpful to cope. And in the same light, using affirmations as a new parent can be encouraging. Here are a few of our favorites:
Pregnancy, Birth, and Having a Newborn During A Power Outage
Whether you are (fast) approaching your estimated date of delivery, have a newborn, or just have little kids, the possibility of Hurricane Frances hitting Raleigh in the next few days is a bit scary!
Decoding the APGAR Test For Newborn Babies
The test is divided into 5 sections with each section receiving a score of 0 to 2. It is to help determine if the newborn needs immediate medical attention, but not to predict long-term health issues.
Provider Spotlight: Kelly Raney, Pelvic Floor PT
We have had the privilege of knowing Kelly Raney, PT, DPT, CFm, PRPC of EmergeOrtho, for a few years now, and are so happy to have connected with her.
Spinach Smoothie with Chocolate
Affirmations for Labor and Delivery
A popular way we support our birth clients is through verbal affirmations during labor and delivery.
Entertaining a Toddler While Nursing a Newborn
Learning about your new baby and how to nurse can be challenging enough, but also dealing with a busy toddler AND nursing a newborn? Well, that is when the Mom Superpowers really show.
You put that where? All about Period Cups!
Transitional Engorgement
As your body is transitioning from colostrum to milk, breast engorgement can be a common, but very uncomfortable, symptom of that transition.
Breastfeeding Should Not Hurt
Building Your Frozen Breast Milk Supply
A few of our favorite tips to building a freezer stash from our friends at Aeroflow Breastpumps!
Provider Spotlight: Veronica Kemeny of Women's Wellness Space
We have known Veronica Kemeny of Women's Wellness Space in Raleigh for about a year, and we so happy that we do!
Tips for Dealing with Unhelpful Family Members
Everyone gets excited to see a new baby, it is just natural. You should see the way my head whips around when a baby rolls by in a stroller. But sometimes, new parents don’t want those extra visitors coming to their home, even if it those visitors have the best intentions.
Protective Factors to Help Strengthen Your Growing Family
These five protective factors can help protect, build, strengthen and promote healthy parent and child development.
Itchy Skin during Pregnancy
There are times when mild itchy is normal and there are times when extreme itch is a sign of something serious.
Tips For Dealing With Morning (All Day) Sickness During Pregnancy
Pregnancy books saying morning sickness just happens during the morning, and will be over soon. But sometimes that is always true!
The Golden Hour Redefined
The “Golden Hour” has become very popular to discuss within the birthing community in the past few years.
Provider Spot: Autumn Ehsaei, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN)
At a recent health fair where we providing cooperate chair massage, we had the pleasure of running into Autumn Ehsaei of Perennial Nutrition, and we hit it off!
Tips For Birthing A Posterior Baby
You may have read about or seen in your ultrasound that a baby can be posterior, and that news can sometimes be not exactly what you want to hear. However, our birth doulas are well trained in how to provide physical support prenatally and during birth to help, while also are able to direct you to other resources that may help.
