Image by Ingrid Franz Moriarty By the second month, most moms-to-be know they’re expecting. This stage may seem a bit surreal in your mind, while your body faces reality head-on. Many experience fatigue, breast tenderness, digestive upsets and “morning sickness,” which can honestly be “all day sickness.” Nausea and throwing up lie on a spectrum…
Earlier this Spring I had the amazing opportunity to listen to Dr. Michel Odent, MD speak at BINI Birth in Sherman Oaks, CA. A French surgeon who is a true pioneer in the history of childbirth, well known as an advocate for natural birth, champion of the innate capacity of a woman to know how to…
Photography by Ron Hamad, all rights reserved The day I went into labor is now my daughter’s birthday, but it is also my birth day, something we will always share. Some of that day is just a daze, a birth daze. Yet there is a vividness too. I had no idea 9 years ago…