by Savannah | Apr 26, 2018 | blog
Babies need to eat and, due to obvious reasons, they’re not exactly ready to chomp into a salad on their birth day. For mammals, this is where the lactation aspect comes in, and the mother begins producing milk to feed the baby. But, for a complex and widespread...
by Savannah | Jan 22, 2018 | blog
With the 2017-18 flu season being considered moderately severe, many people are staying home from work and school with fevers, muscle aches, fatigue, and chills[1]. Because this is my youngest’s very first winter, my family has been taking some extra steps to...
by Savannah | Nov 15, 2017 | blog, pregnancy and natural birth
Childbirth has become more and more of a medicalized process. An act women have been capable of completing alone for thousands of years has turned into a major, invasive surgery in an operating room nearly 40% of the time[1]. And though more than 98% of all births...
by Savannah | Oct 11, 2017 | blog
October – the month that everything is pink. Grocery stores, fast food restaurants, even sports teams are going pink to help raise awareness at the second most common cancer to affect American women[1]. The problem? Everyone already knows about breast cancer....
by Savannah | Sep 22, 2017 | blog
By the time I hit 43 weeks pregnant, I was done. I was hot, I was tired, and I was ready to meet my baby. Up until that point, I’d really let things continue on naturally, not doing much to encourage baby’s arrival – aside from walking and sex which...
