The term ‘Complications’ umbrellas so many possibilities when it comes to labor.  As a mother, giving birth is already scary enough, but if you hear the doctor label your labor it can mentally throw you off and hinder your birth plan.

Before becoming parents to a human baby, many couples are mom and dad to a furbaby. Typically, this furry, four-legged animal has been placed on quite the pedestal over some long period of time. Bringing home a newborn can present a lot of worry for the expecting family.

Did you know that breastfeeding for 2 years or more significantly lowers the chance of having cancer later in life? Yep.  It’s amazing how our bodies work.  It’s as if we were meant to birth babies AND FEED THEM.  Crazy.

It's not easy to move on after losing a baby. It's not easy to watch as the rest of the world continues spinning like normal while you find it hard to put one foot in front of the other. Somehow, though, we do it, but we don't have to do it alone.

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.