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There are so many things to talk about when it comes to breastfeeding... We could get down to business and talk about how much it hurts, but also how worth it is to continue because there are so many benefits of breastfeeding. Or we might discuss more "embarrassing" topics: what to do about engorgement, how to know […]
If I have one regret from both of my birth experiences, it is that I didn't have a designated "picture taker" around. Not so much for the labor. But for the birth and immediately after the birth. I think I would have liked to capture those early moments of life in all their messy glory. […]
"Is your hospital bag packed?" That's what everyone asked me in the final trimester of my first pregnancy. I almost always answered, "partly." I said that because my bag was partly packed and partly because I had no idea what to put in there!?! For my second pregnancy, I knew what I needed/wanted: Bikini Top […]
My first birth experience was attended by an OB in a hospital. My second birth experience was attended by a midwife in a birth center. The two experiences were black-and-white; night-and-day. There were countless differences between the hospital and the birth center, but perhaps the most significant difference was that the hospital treated me as a […]
A blogger from Our Green Nest recently said something that I can't stop thinking about, "It's so sad that many people still don't see the importance of the birth experience...they think that as long as the baby is healthy that's ALL that matters...obviously that's the most important thing, but nearly as important is the overall experience […]
Please welcome Dr. Bob Sears back to Metropolitan Mama. Sears is a nationally known pediatrician, father of three, and author of The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for Your Child. Sears has graciously offered to extend his expertise about vaccines through a bimonthly column where YOU ask the questions…and he answers them. See the bottom of this […]
Two and a half years ago: I am sitting in a lactation consultant's office at my local hospital with my week-old baby. I proceed to latch my baby on under the consultant's watchful gaze. I bite my lip and try not to scream, my shoulders hunching forward impulsively from the pain. The consultant observes and […]
"Lovely controlled birth; hands and knees in tub." Those are the words that my midwife wrote on my birth records under "Delivery Comments." I'm not sure I would use the word "controlled" to describe my labor experience. After all, it involved plenty of screaming and moaning (and singing, incidentally...). But I WOULD describe it as […]