November 18, 2019

Dr. Harvey Karp: 7 Steps to Take Care of Yourself…While Taking Care of Your Baby

If you’re feeling like you walked into the deep end of the pool, you’re not alone. For the first time in human history, parents are expected to take care of babies on their own. Up until about 100 years ago, most parents had 5 nannies…their moms, sisters, cousins, and neighbors....

November 18, 2019

Want a Simple Bone Broth Recipe for a New Mama?

New mothers need warm foods to restore their life force, referred to as “qi” in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Warm foods help balance a woman’s energy, as she’s lost blood, passed a hormone-rich placenta and is slowly closing in all the places that opened to hold and birth a baby. 

November 18, 2019

Dr. Robin Fawcett: What if One of the Most Powerful Things You Could Do as a Parent Was Also One of the Simplest?

Parenting in a new culture is a great excuse to think critically about best practices. One of the surprises for me was the European focus on getting children outside in nature. As I began reading about Scandinavian outdoor preschools and German forest kindergartens, I found startling connections between environment and...

November 18, 2019

Allison Oswald, DPT on Things You Should Know About Your Pelvic Floor - Before, During & After Pregnancy

When women think of the pelvic floor, they most often think kegels. But it’s time for women to know there is so much more to the pelvic floor than just that.