Having a Baby Can Age You on a Cellular Level
By Julia Ries Between the sleepless nights, endless worries, and persistent temper tantrums, parenting can feel like a fast track to gray hairs and wrinkles….
Pregnancy & Birth
So You Have A Prolapse – Now What?
By Kimberly Johnson You’re feeling heaviness, sagginess or even a bulge in your pelvic floor. Or maybe you even feel like your organs might…
Birth Injury – Common But Not Normal
By Kimberly Johnson Rant alert. Each week women come into my office with a troubling problem that their doctor, midwife or even physical therapist…
Prolapse. Help!
By Caitlin Day Vaginal prolapse. Pelvic organ prolapse. Cystocele. Rectocele. Uterine prolapse. Sounds terrifying right? Images of a woman’s uterus hanging around her knees…
What’s Going On With Your Post-Baby Vagina?
By Kimberly Johnson When it comes to your post-birth nether regions, don’t believe everything you hear-that is, if you’ve heard anything at all! Whether…
My Rainbow Baby: Pregnancy After Loss
By Cheree Sheldon *** Trigger warning – baby loss *** That feeling that you get when you see the double lines on the pregnancy…
Honouring Our Bellies – A Living Canvas
By Hannah Schenker Are you nearing the end of your pregnancy, your body completely transformed like a ripening bud, ready to flower? Some may…
How You Can Conquer Mummy Brain With Proper Nutrition
By Zooey Strong New babies can be the harbingers of so much love, joy, and forgetfulness. Yep, the “mummy brain” struggle is real! Sometimes…
Happy Birthing Days: New Book Shares Amazing 3-Step Method
Pizza and Parcels Should be Delivered But Babies Should Be Born! In her bestselling book Happy Birthing Days: a midwife‘s secret to a joyful, safe…
Jaundice In Newborns Could Be An Evolutionary Safeguard Against Death From Sepsis
Richard Hansen, University of Glasgow; Elaina Collie-Duguid, University of Aberdeen, and Georgina Hold, UNSW In newborn babies, jaundice is so common as to be…
Pregnancy, Exercise and Diet: How To Ensure a Healthy Pregnancy
By Laura Lucas It’s positive. You are pregnant! A completely new world of mixed emotions has suddenly opened up. Disbelief, contentment, acceptance, joy and…
For All The Mothers Who Feel Lost At Times, This Is How I Found ME
By Kim Newing When I became a mother for the first time almost 8 years ago, I had no clue what was ahead of…
I Had a Baby At 40, And It Was Awesome
By Jessica Delfino Let me start by saying I didn’t mean to have a baby at 40. I meant to have a baby, but…
10 Tips For Expectant Fathers From My Second Time Around
By Matt Paolelli As we are currently in the second trimester of our second pregnancy, I’ve found myself increasingly surrounded by other pregnant family members,…
Mindfulness and Water Freed My Fears: A Positive Birth Experience
By Sarah Silver Just over 12 months ago my husband and I were honoured to be able to purchase H2 Oh Baby, a nationally…
Forget “Bouncing Back”: New Gear for the New You
By Hannah Schenker Many women that go through pregnancy are shocked by the changes to their body, struggling to reconcile the image in the…
Birth Trauma Website Launched on International Maternal Mental Health Day
* Suicide is the main cause of death in new mums in Aotearoa; 1 in 3 women consider their birth traumatic (1). * Online…
Breastfeeding Our Toddlers: A Full Term Nursing Series
By Hannah Schenker Loving our postpartum bodies isn’t something that comes easy to everyone. Such huge changes in our physicality as a result of…
Postnatal Recovery For New Mums
By Simone de Cunha Many new mums, like I was, are either overwhelmed with information about breastfeeding (told to “scoff cheese” so I had enough…
The Ugly Truth…About Pregnancy
By Lucia Laubscher Pregnancy is one of those exclusively female experiences, which leaves most men uncertain as to how best approach the mum-to-be in…