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Healthy Pregnancy and Healthy Babies, Are you pregnant, a mom, and aware?

What’s all “the buzz” about health? Is it important to you to have an easy and healthy pregnancy? Who’s dreaming of a safe and uncomplicated birth? How many of us are interested[...]

Taking Time for Self Care

By Mirranda Reinhardt for Pregnancy Awareness Month® Being a mother can simultaneously be the hardest and most rewarding job in the world. Day in and day out we pour our hearts an[...]

Babywearing Basics 3: Slings

By Mirranda Reinhardt for Pregnancy Awareness Month® So far in our Babywearing Basics series we’ve learned why babywearing is beneficial and we’ve learned about front strap [...]

Moms Rising - #3

In the first post in this three-part series, I explore the Circumstances for Moms Rising (working and returning to work after bearing a child or children). In the second [...]

Swag Sunday Giveaway June 10th

Vitafusion & L’il Critters Gummy Vitamins Gift Basket Contents: 2 Vitafusion PreNatal, 1 Vitafusion Calcium, 1 Vitafusion Vitamin D, 1 Vitafusion FiberWell, 1 Vitafusion Pow[...]

A Turn for the Better

Four years ago, when my wife, Jama, was pregnant with our first daughter, Adeline, we wanted to play music to her belly. Why? Well we weren’t really sure to be honest with you. [...]

Go Inward

As I write this a Fall wind is wrapping itself around my house. My six-year-old is back in school and I can hear my son, just two running around the yard. I smile briefly because I[...]

The Balancing Act of a Working Mom

There are times when my comfort in stating that I am a full-time working mom is just not that great. I love what I do, I have a passion for it, but there can be pangs of guilt asso[...]

Birth Day with Val: From Inspired to Inspiring

Becoming a doula really started when I was working as an EMT for an ambulance company on the Central Coast of California. I had the opportunity to go into the OR with a respiratory[...]

From One Mother's Arms into Another

New moms can be your best resource in transferring crucial parenting and bonding techniques. After my daughter was born a friend came to visit with a gift, a bottle of Weleda Cale[...]