Pregnancy + Adoption

You're probably familiar with some of the benefits of being pregnant. There's the famous "glow" and thick, shiny hair. The motivation to be more active and take better care of your body. The excitement you get to share with...

Natural childbirth. What does it mean to you? The process of childbirth is, of course, natural, but exactly HOW natural you want your birth to be is up to you. Some moms see their perfect birth experience in a...

Support for families through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum has been around for pretty much forever. Modern Doulas are quite a bit different than what you may have loosely learned in history class, seen on Call the Midwife, or even heard...

It doesn't matter if you are having baby #1 or baby #8... moms need support! We are fortunate to have a variety of resources available to us in the Cincinnati/NKY area. This guide is designed to hopefully get you started on the right path towards accessing the resources you need in pregnancy and beyond.

As a mother of a toddler, my experience with breastfeeding seems like a blip in the past, but I know how impactful those moments were to me when I was living through them. Like many moms-to-be, I had every intention...

Now, more than ever before and due to COVID-19, families are considering having home births. But wait, before you get all judgy on me, it’s not like the 1800's midwife preconception that so many people have. I had the...

Awwww, pregnancy. That one little word provokes so many emotions – excitement, love, fulfillment. The list can go on and on. When I learned I was pregnant with my second child, I experienced all of the above. My body...

When I was 6, I had a bad case of food poisoning that developed into a lifelong phobia of vomiting. My entire adult life, I've been terrified of pregnancy for one reason and one reason only: morning sickness. Knowing...

In May of 1980, my parents got married. They recently celebrated 39 years of marriage. Like all couples, they had plenty of ups and plenty of downs. Almost immediately after they were married, they found out they were expecting...

I am part of two clubs that pregnant and new mothers don't ever wish to join: the long-first-labor club and the postpartum depression club. My husband and I did 54 hours of labor, mostly alone. Afterward, I developed postpartum depression,...