Karuna Doula Denver

21/10/2019

Americans need to normalize conversations about pregnancy loss.

13/08/2019

This.

New mothers reveal how unprepared they felt for the severity of postpartum physical changes.

18/05/2019

You know you want one...

Midwives provide a wide range of family-planning services, but not every expectant mom is a candidate to give birth with their assistance.

06/03/2019

A new law to help states investigate deaths from childbirth complications is a start, but experts say what is really needed is reducing C-section rates.

13/02/2019

The task force of experts recommended at-risk women seek certain types of counseling, and it cited two specific programs that have been particularly effective.

12/02/2019

Who knew that a woman could fit so many fruits through her cervix! ;)

On this International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2019, we honor and celebrate around the world who center an , while practicing a .



Art by: Duvet Days

16/01/2019

Straight from the editors at Scientific American.

For better birth outcomes, the U.S. should rethink maternity care

14/01/2019

I expected childbirth to change my body. What I didn't expect was how long it would take, and how hard it would be, to get back to normal.

04/01/2019

Women grow organs!!! Look how amazing the placenta is!

An ephemeral organ, long dismissed merely as afterbirth, increasingly is viewed as critical to understanding the health and course of pregnancy.

19/12/2018

So much YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!

"Breastfeeding is the most normal thing in the world," photographer and magazine founder Claire Rothstein wrote.

26/11/2018

The US falls behind other affluent countries in midwife use. A deeper look at history may explain why.

24/11/2018

Love!

"A mom's love is universal."

12/06/2018

Midwives rock! What a great idea!

With teen pregnancy rates in some communities stubbornly high, one school district is trying something different: staff the schools with a midwife.

23/04/2018

Progress!! So exciting!

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a series of initiatives aimed at addressing a disturbingly high rate of maternal mortality among black women.

04/04/2018

This is a really unique and inspiring project. Check it out!

You've never seen motherhood like this.

19/03/2018

The updated “dos and donts” of pregnancy.

A leading obstetrics journal lays out the state of the data on the most commonly asked pregnancy questions, from back-sleeping to air travel.

29/01/2018

Labor can take a loooooong time...it’s OK!

It can take a long time, and that's perfectly healthy.

10/12/2017

This is perfection!

21/11/2017

So beautiful.

10/11/2017

Too sweet not to share.

So sweet!

07/08/2017

Glad the word is spreading!

Some hospitals in the U.S. already have implemented waiting to bathe newborns based on WHO recommendations as well as evidence-based practice.

27/06/2017

The infinite wisdom of mothers and grandmothers...

Many American women want to breast-feed — and try to. Only about half keep it up. It's like they've lost the instinct. One researcher thinks she's figured out why and how to get the instinct back.

14/06/2017

Don't forget the dads!!!

Dads FTW!

01/06/2017

A wonderful article by my friend Terry Rubin about how music therapy helped his preemie son while in the NICU.

On the second day of my son's life, born 11 weeks early, a woman approached me in the NICU with a guitar and other instruments. As a music therapist, she said she had scientifically proven ways of alleviating the stress that both my son and his roommates felt with the use of music and other sound-ma...

18/05/2017

Birth trauma is real. I'm so glad to see it acknowledged so publicly.

Often mistaken for postpartum depression, postpartum PTSD affects 9 percent of women post-delivery.

15/04/2017

Well, duh! :)

When moms in a recent study had one more hour to push, the C-section rate was cut in half.

29/03/2017

Doulas work really hard at what we do. This post shows the strength and beauty of what we do every time we support a mama. Lovely.

"These doulas are giving their clients the gift of judgment-free support."

24/03/2017

The relationship between a mother and her doula is a very sacred and beautiful one.

These images capture the amazing bond between moms and doulas.

24/02/2017

This looks like a parent's dream!

07/02/2017

This really works. Skin to skin is magical!!!!!

Skin-to-skin contact sustains premature babies where incubators are limited. It may even be the best form of neonatal care, period.