Another great video on why to wait to clamp and cut your baby’s cord right away.

Lori Bregman

www.rootedforlife.com

My friend Jenna Binder and I have been creating and gathering pregnancy recipes for our pregnancy cookbook for a while now. I first met and worked with Jenna when she was pregnant with her son Max and am now taking her through her second pregnancy. While at her house t...

All of you expectant mama’s that are at your due date and are sooooooooo ready to have and that baby of yours will just LOVE me for this post!!!!

My client/friend just trekked all the way over to studio city to get the magic maternity salad. According to many women thi...

Juicing For Morning Sickness

3 organic apples

4 organic stalks celery

1 small piece of organic ginger (1/4 -1/2  inch)

Juice all together and drink throughout the day if needed.

Anyone who I have taken through labor (especially lately) knows that I am BIRTH BALL CRAZY for using  during labor, pregnancy and after.

Using a birth ball (a large exercise ball) has so many benefits! It opens and creates space in the pelvis, allows your baby to...

The book True Power of Water by Masaru Emoto demonstrates the energetic power of our thoughts and feelings with water. I found it fascinating when someone thought or felt love, happiness and gratitude towards someone or something it makes a beautiful shape in the water...

When I prep someone for pregnancy the first thing I do is pull unhealthy things out of the diet. After I detoxify them, I begin adding healthy things back in. A gardener always gets the soil as healthy and nourished as it can be before planting precious seeds and plant...

Time has been the focus and theme of my life right now. It seems with more on my plate that there isn’t enough time in my day. I have been working on how to manage it, pace myself and allow enough time to get things done.

Being that it is the theme of my life right now...

I read this piece on the Huffington Post today and it really spoke to my heart. I’ve been working on myself in the same way this author has — noticing how often I try and hurry my daughter up so that I can make all my appointments, meetings, classes, etc. “on time.”  I...

A few incredible moments from a homebirth, I had the honor of attending a few weeks ago. Witnessing her labor, was a transcendent experience. She showed such grace, power and focus.

http://notesfromadoula.tumblr.com/post/55831429318/a-few-incredible-moments-from-a-home...