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What Helps a Stuffy Nose? Moisture

Reposted from our blog from December 21, 2011 due to the number of colds and flu being reported. The first time my daughter had a seriously stuffy nose she was 7 month[...]

PAM is More Than A Pretty Face (Reposted from EcoFabulous)

May is pregnancy awareness month (PAM), and though I have no intention of re[...]

Alisa's Top 3 Picks for Baby Products

My #1 baby product....well it isn’t really a product, but I see it as CRUCIAL! 1. A Post Partum Doula 2. Breast pump 3. Baby sling My #1 baby product pick isn’t a product at[...]

Why Pregnancy Awareness Month®?

We were 2 relatively new mom’s who were also teaching prenatal and mommy & me yoga at a very popular studio in Los Angeles. I’d had a spontaneous and completely unplanned home[...]

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[...]

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[...]

The Postpartum Blues & What You Can Do

When I go back 7 years ago to when I was pregnant with my first child, Jasper, it was very difficult for me to even entertain what life would be like postpartum. It was all I could[...]

The Incredible and Well Worth Investment of a Post-Partum Doula

The word doula has gained incredible popularity in the past decade. The joke in big cities is not if you have a doula but WHO is your doula. Women have become familiar and embraced[...]

Visioning Your Sacred Birth

I’ve often said that we do a wonderful job in America of preparing a woman and her mate with all that she needs to know about the physical aspect of birth, but very little about th[...]