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  • Ten most essential postpartum items for mom

    Your baby's due any day now. What will you need on hand those first few days post-delivery? Here's our 10 postpartum must-haves.

  • Plan ahead for baby's first weeks at home

    During your first weeks together, you and your baby may feel just as dazed and confused. What can you do to make it easier? Get ready! You owe it to yourself and your baby to prepare in advance and line up as much support as you can.

  • Postpartum Nutrition for the New Mom

    If you're pregnant, you could be daydreaming about holding your precious baby for the first time or hopefully fitting back into your favorite jeans. Another topic that you'll want to consider is your body's post pregnancy needs.

  • Postpartum Anxiety

    Now that the baby's here, have you become a professional worrywart? One of the most common symptoms of postpartum depression is anxiety. Use these helpful suggestions to help keep it under control.

  • This is Your Brain on the Postpartum Blues

    Elevated levels of a brain protein known to deplete the body of feel-good hormones like serotonin may be responsible for triggering powerful feelings of sadness in new mothers.

  • C-Section: Not What They Were Expecting

    Experts say the advice women receive prior to discharge from hospital after c-section needs to be revised to consider the context of women's and their families' lived reality.

  • Selma Blair Gets Real About Postpartum Hair Loss and More!

    Selma Blair is refreshingly candid about the realities of postpartum hair loss following the birth of her adorable son, Arthur Saint.

  • Top Ten Tips for New Moms

    You may find that some of the expectations you had for your first weeks with new baby are far from the reality. Below you will find some of our favorite mom-to-mom tips for helping you through this initial honeymoon period with your new baby:

  • Normal Postpartum Cycle?

    QUESTION

    Dear Midwife,
    I had my first child seven months ago. I have been breastfeeding her all along, and I introduced baby foods about two months ago.

  • LUNA Beads Kegel Enhancers

    Reviewer's Name: 
    jadamson

    LUNA Beads are the perfect aides for anyone interested in exercising and maintaining their Kegel muscles. Before giving birth to my son, my gyno told me that doing Kegel exercises would help me to avoid postpartum incontinence, and suggested a number of exercises including these beads.

    Rating: 
    6 - Highly recommend
    Product Link: 
    LELO Luna Beads

  • Help Your Baby Breastfeed Before It's Even Born

    A growing body of research reveals profound connections between a woman's birth experience and her ability to get breastfeeding off to a good start. But if you think of putting your baby to your breast as the fourth stage of labor it can help you visualize this connection.

  • Laughing Through the Chaos - 5 milligrams is all it takes

    I've got a great support network of other moms online, and one day I told them that I was really irritable and stupid little things were really pissing me off. I told them that I'd cry really easily over stuff that never would have bothered me before. Postpartum depression was brought up. I shrugged it off and said - nope, not me, not depressed.

  • Placentophagy: "Ewww! Why Would You Eat That!

    Most mammals eat their placenta. Would you? Studies show eating the placenta can curb postpartum depression, replenish nutrients, increase milk production, and slow postpartum hemorrhage.

  • Selma Blair Gets Real About Postpartum Hair Loss and More!

    Selma Blair is refreshingly candid about the realities of postpartum hair loss following the birth of her adorable son, Arthur Saint.

  • C.C.: A Story of Courage

    by C.C. Howell

  • Pregnancy Hair Loss

    Telogen effluvium is the excessive shedding of hair that occurs one to five months following pregnancy. This is not uncommon, affecting somewhere between 40 to 50% of women

  • Top Ten Tips for New Moms

    You may find that some of the expectations you had for your first weeks with new baby are far from the reality. Below you will find some of our favorite mom-to-mom tips for helping you through this initial honeymoon period with your new baby:

  • What is a Cesarean Section?

    What is a Cesarean Section? A cesarean section is the surgical delivery of the baby through an abdominal incision. Supposedly, Julius Caesar was delivered in this manner, hence the name.

  • Swollen Feet After Delivery?

    QUESTION

    Dear Midwife,
    I delivered 5 days ago and everything went well except that my feet became more swollen than they were before delivery. What could be the reason and could it be serious?

  • Bringing Baby Home: Your Postpartum Plan

    Bringing a baby home is not about what color is right for the nursery or do the socks I bought match the outfit Aunt Doris sent? There are more important issues to consider before you carry that cuddly sweet bundle across the threshold.