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 Matt DeVriendt | Sep 24, 2020 | Origin Stories, Parenting
Why I’m here I’ve known I wanted to be a Dad from a very young age. The vague memory I can muster of the first time it came up is my devoutly religious mother giving me my first Bible. (That’s right, I would be gifted many more Bibles over the course of my life,...
by Stephanie Freeman | Aug 20, 2020 | Advocacy, Birth Trauma, Human Rights in Childbirth, Origin Stories
So what do doulas… you know… do? The World: So what did your doula… you know… do? Me: Do? The World: Yeah, do? Did she massage you? Positions? Bring a unicorn? Me: HA! Not much. Not like that. I mean we called her and she showed up about 3-4 hours before...
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...
by Stephanie Freeman | Jun 17, 2020 | Advocacy, Human Rights in Childbirth, Origin Stories, Reproductive Justice, The F Word
I love to fall in love. I remember when I was growing up and I was (sadly, shamefully) called “BoyCrazy”. Now I won’t go down the rabbit hole of my own hot mess of a childhood – but I can tell you something that I have realized throughout my life – I...
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