Slow Down After Baby

Slow Down After Baby

When can I start exercising again? How long do you think I have to keep the baby in the house and away from people?  How soon can we start having sex again? How young is too young if we wanted to go away? When can I start pumping breastmilk?  How soon will the baby...
I Don’t Care How You Want To Give Birth!

I Don’t Care How You Want To Give Birth!

OK, maybe that came out wrong. I care about how you want to give birth. If you tell me you want to have your baby in a certain way I’ll care very much about that and help you with that kind of birth. What I don’t care about is what I think about your way...
What To Wear To The Hospital?

What To Wear To The Hospital?

This is a question I get asked a lot.  What should a woman wear for birth? There are lots of options.  A few companies out there even make special skirts and dresses for labouring.  But what if you don’t want to buy anything special?  I have a few practical...
Ina May Is Wrong

Ina May Is Wrong

I trained to be a doula at The Farm in Summertown TN. I met and had dinner with Ina May Gaskin.  We talked about knitting socks.  I had read her book Ina May’s Guide To Childbirth during my first pregnancy and found it so inspiring that I had brought not only my...