Nausea During Pregnancy: Causes and Solutions

Nausea During Pregnancy: Causes and Solutions

Nausea during pregnancy is a common and sometimes miserable experience. Whether your clients feel nausea during pregnancy depends on many factors. Thankfully, by understanding what’s causing nausea, you can offer support to your clients and help reduce it. Nausea...
Healthy Gut Flora During Pregnancy

Healthy Gut Flora During Pregnancy

Probiotic Balance By reinforcing the balance of probiotic microorganisms during pregnancy, you can pass on a healthier microbiota to your baby for a healthy start in life. Your microbiota and your baby’s health Your baby’s digestive and immune function depends on the...
Home Sweet Home…Insemination: A Midwife’s Journey

Home Sweet Home…Insemination: A Midwife’s Journey

Home sweet home…insemination: A midwife’s journeyby Michelle Borok, LM, LMP In this special guest post, midwife Michelle Borok recounts her experience with home intrauterine insemination (IUI). When I was in midwifery school in the Southwestern United States, I forged...
Dangers of Scents and Fragrances

Dangers of Scents and Fragrances

Scents and fragrances harm us and the environment Artificial scents cause grave harm to people, pets, wildlife and the environment. Fortunately, small shifts in your purchasing habits can drastically reduce their use. Unless you live under a rock, you know how harmful...
The Nursing Mother’s Village

The Nursing Mother’s Village

It takes a village to raise a child, as they say. It also takes a village to support new mothers as they bond with and feed their growing baby. A village is a real network made up of familiar people and places that support you and put you at ease. Many people today...