It’s not just a matter of male/female copulation to procreate anymore. There is a plethora of methods to merge chromosomes into nine months of gestation; IVF, surrogacy, artificial insemination, frozen embryos, PGD, donor, cytoplasmic transfer, nuclear transfer, we’re even close to offering personal cloning!
THE most miraculous gift we women will ever know – growing a human being within our belly is just a divine and intricately complex phenomenon. Amidst the excitement, nausea, and raging hormones, it is quite easy to lose sight of what is actually occurring in the little universe growing at a remarkable rate right in...
Prenatal Yoga is a delightful way to decompress, stretch, breathe and connect with the little yogini inside. Not only is it therapeutic in the present moment, it is extremely beneficial for natural childbirth and the physical, emotional recovery of labor and birth.
An important point to remember as you prepare your home for Baby is that less is more. We become very caught up with consumerism as we get closer to the due date. They call it “nesting” but I call it merchandising. Most of the advertised baby equipment just isn’t necessary and can in fact be...
The EPA has a big problem with disposable diapers. And we should too. Afterall we are leaving the earth to our children so it simply makes no sense to fill our landfills with hazardous waste that takes 500 years to decompose.
Labor and birth has become somewhat of a cliché portrayed in movies as crazy amounts of screaming pain, demanding as many drugs as quickly as humanly possible, a team of nurses and doctors pulling Baby out, while baby daddy frantically records all the drama.This, however is a fallacy.
It is incredibly frightening to know that your little human is coming early. There are so many questions, fears, concerns that can cause either direct panic or total numbness when faced with early delivery or c-section. Once you are in the safety of the prenatal unit, you should feel rest assured that the experts have...
To think that more than one baby can grow between your ribs and pelvis seems somewhat ridiculous. One burgeoning infant is plenty – but two or three or four…? With the advent of IVF in the last 40 years, multiple births have multiplied considerably. The question of how many fertilized eggs to implant is brandished...
When Baby is born we pray for her to be in perfect health, for her organs to function normally, for her brain to be fully developed, for her to have all her limbs, fingers and toes.
The utter devastation when we lose our Baby cannot possibly be captured in a sentence. The sorrow can be overwhelming and the disappointment during pregnancy, catastrophic. At this time, there feels like there is no comfort substantial enough to support a grieving mother. No arms, no words, no deity. While you mourn the loss of...
