By Ali Weatherford in consultation with Stacey at femSTRONG Movement for Every Trimester: Adapting Your Routine as Your Body Changes There have been so many fitness trends in my longish life. It’s hard to know what to believe sometimes. And [...]
By Ali Weatherford If you are or have ever been pregnant, you probably know exactly what pregnancy brain is. But if you try to describe it to someone who has never heard of it, you might not be able to! [...]
By Ali Weatherford A breastfeeding strike is when a baby refuses to breastfeed. Some people might also indicate that their baby “self-weaned”. These things can happen… sort of. But it’s really important to understand the differences and how to manage [...]
By Ali Weatherford in consultation with Amy Tucker of Life With Baby, Postpartum Doula and Perinatal Mental Health Coach I love to talk about birth plans, write about birth plans, and help people make birth plans. You’ve probably heard about [...]
By Ali Weatherford in consultation with Belinda Rico (Trigger warning: discussion of prematurity and NICU stays) A NICU is a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. These special units in the hospital are for newborn babies who need some extra care. Not [...]
By Ali Weatherford (Trigger warning: some discussion of premature birth, stillbirth, and maternal/infant mortality) Statistics was my most AND least favorite class in college. I had to take this class for my major, but I wanted nothing to do with [...]
By Ali Weatherford The focus of our last article was tandem nursing, which usually means breastfeeding a toddler and a newborn at the same time. A lot of people do not plan to breastfeed a toddler, but most babies start “toddling” [...]
By Ali Weatherford Tandem nursing refers to breastfeeding more than one child at a time when they are also different ages. Feeding twins or multiples is a little different. Tandem nursing is not a common practice in our modern culture, [...]
By Ali Weatherford (Trigger warning: discussion of maternal and infant mortality rates) Or maybe you’ve heard this one, “Healthy baby, healthy mama. That’s what counts.” Are these platitudes true? I think they are absolutely true. But are they really all [...]
By Ali Weatherford I love to learn about nutrition. During pregnancy, I was SO careful about what I ate, and it was easy because I had constant morning sickness and no terrible cravings anyway. No food sounded good, so I [...]
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