More than 1/3rd of unplanned c-sections that occur in the United States are due to women “Failing to Progress” during their labor.   This statistic is upsetting.  If mothers were properly educated on labor, birth, and their rights during the entire process, the statistic would be drastically lower. A failure to progress generally means a failure to wait, a failure to allow the woman’s body to work

Let’s Talk Vitamin K and Newborns Vitamin K is necessary for normal blood clotting in adults and children. But newborns are different.  They are not born with sufficient amounts of the vitamin.

The truth is that winter means something different depending on where you live.  A 70-degree day in Florida will not require the same baby items as an entire season of ice, snow, and freezing temperatures in other parts of the country.  If you are lucky enough to live in the cold areas of the country, you may need some help figuring out everything you need for baby this winter!

I have breastfed forever... over 70 months and counting.  If you think for one second that I have completed this momentous milestone without wine, then you do not know me at all. Another hypothetical question: How you think I keep getting pregnant? Duh. WINE.   (Oh – and my husband is incredibly good looking.)

It seems that the only acceptable vaginal birth is one that follows the not-so-normal bell curve that people assume labor to be defined.  You know, the dilating a centimeter an hour, and pushing immediately at 10 centimeters.

This topic generally goes one of two ways while pregnant: “WHAT THE F*$& ARE YOU THINKING?? I Do NOT want sex at all right now!” Or “OH.MY.GOD. YES PLEASE. PLEASE. SEEEEEEEEEEX.”

It’s hard to find an infant sleep study or research that has not been funded by crib manufacturers, in which the information is not swayed in favor of cribs and against bed-sharing.  

Evidence based clinical guidelines recommend not suctioning a baby’s airways unless they are unresponsive, floppy and require resuscitation. And even then only to do so using a laryngoscope so that you can see what you are doing.  

Let’s get real here.  Those pinterest lists of perfect diaper bag items are wonderful, in theory.  Don’t lie.  Baby #1, that list was wonderful and lasted the first few months, until baby outgrew the newborn clothing you had packed as backup, you run out of wipes, you hoard your receipts, and you spill Starbucks in the bag from lack of sleep.  Then you get real and decide that your bag packing has