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Sleep In one way, this seems counter-intuitive. When I’m depressed, I tend to want to sleep too much. The girls get up before dawn (when does the sun come back, anyway??), and I just want to pull the covers over my head and stay there all day.   However, sleep is important for your brain […]

Socialize I notice that I tend to withdraw when I start to feel down. I don’t want to go out, I decline social invitations from friends, and dread turning on the computer to a flood of emails.   This year, I will not let this start to happen. Luckily I have some great friends who […]

The new year has hit, and here comes the post-holiday letdown. I tend to slide into a funk in January, as many of us do. Winter transitions from being quaint and festive to simply being cold and dark. And way too long.   To fight the winter blues, I’m going to share the tips and […]

This story is disturbing to me, both on a professional and personal level. Assuming these allegations are true, then there has been a serious breach of trust. Trust is the one thing that birthing women need in order to feel safe and birth their babies in the way Nature intended. This has shaken the natural […]

The Miami Maternity Center is responding to the situation, and saying that there are many false allegations in the original press release.   This statement from Shari Daniels was passed on to me, so I wanted to post it here:   “…I would like to thank all my friends in midwifery who have called, stopped […]