by Abby Larsen | Dec 5, 2020 | Feed Your Baby, Informed Consent, Origin Stories, Pregnancy
Fetus Betus I didn’t think anything of my glucose tolerance test leading up to it. After all, I had no risk factors for it as far as I knew. I was 31, not a young mom, but not yet what the medical establishment refers to as a “geriatric pregnancy” by any means...
by Abby Larsen | Sep 19, 2020 | Advocacy
WE ARE BACK!! I got to attend a birth the other night. That doesn’t sound super exciting to most of you, after all, I am a doula. It’s what I do. But like countless other industries that were affected by the novel coronavirus and its subsequent disease,...
by Abby Larsen | Aug 27, 2020 | Advocacy, Birth Trauma, Human Rights in Childbirth, Informed Consent, Parenting, The F Word
What We Do P. 2: The Nitty Gritty …And what we don’t do, because that is also important. We get asked what we “do” all the gosh durn time. And like Stephanie mentioned in her previous post (that I just conveniently linked for you to catch up...
by Abby Larsen | Jul 15, 2020 | Advocacy, Birth Trauma, Human Rights in Childbirth, The F Word
The Fear Culture that Follows Birth Maybe it was your mother, maybe it was your best friend. Maybe it was your Uncle Stan, your aunt’s creepy second husband who never knows when to stop. It could also have been your grandmother. Maybe it was all of them. Somewhere...
by Abby Larsen | Jun 25, 2020 | Human Rights in Childbirth, Informed Consent, Origin Stories
I was always envious of people who grew up knowing exactly what their career trajectory looked like. How did they know that? Were their parents more strict? Did I lack some internal barometer of my own abilities? I still don’t know the answer, but now I am too...
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