Edited by Cristin Tighe and Christine Wood Pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, and skin-to-skin are times that establish the baby’s best health! They provide essential exposure to their mother’s microbiome. For now, we can be confident that the way nature empowered women to carry children and birth naturally, hold their babies, and breastfeed aligns exactly with what …
Edited by Cristin Tighe and Christine Wood Part of the BirthWorks Common Sense Nutrition program From the moment of birth, parents want to give their babies a healthy, long life. For our children and ourselves, the foods we eat and how they are cooked matter to our health now and in the future. Some processed …
BirthWorks is committed to supporting all women, in all places, equally with evidence-based information and a holistic and values-based philosophy. We want every woman to understand their own embodied power, the process of labor and birth, the risks of interventions, as well as informed consent, and their rights. When those all align, women (and their …
The phrase “breast crawl” refers to what a baby does instinctively after birth. Put on their mother’s lower abdomen the baby initiates a natural crawl process where – with time – the baby moves their body up toward mom’s breasts. Given skin-to-skin contact with their mothers almost all babies can get up to the breasts …
Water birth has many wonderful benefits and is safe (for most mothers and babies*). There is a strong connection between mother’s fear, feeling safe in birth, the impact and importance of birth place, and how to assure love pervades the birthing context (learn more here). Water birth helps all of these very significant things. When …
Women who already experienced past trauma – and others who also experience the loss of a child and/or other related perinatal losses – have doubly challenging circumstances to overcome on their path to parenthood. There are not many resources about trauma’s real impact in birth, and even less on the combined impact on survivors AND …
It is no surprise that we are contaminating our environment with toxins. What is not as well known is that some of these “forever chemicals” cannot be destroyed, and may be still another cause of preterm birth. A premature birth by definition is one that occurs before the 37th week of pregnancy. Causes of premature births include: multiple …
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