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My final Flatiron School assignment was to build a React app. I think the idea is a good one and while I’ve met the requirements to pass my assessment the app is far from being finished.
Here are the requirements…
Use the create-react-app generator to start your project. Your app should ha... | ['Flatiron School', 'React', 'API', 'Rails', 'Redux'] |
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A requirement of the Flatiron School is to write a blog post every three weeks. After each person submits their blog, we’re encouraged to clap their blog post 50 times. One of my coaches sent out a chall... | ['Coding', 'Web Development', 'Flatiron School', 'JavaScript'] |
Getting Sleep() with Promises in JS
Recently, I started building a very basic single page app to illustrate Fetch API usage in a cute and simple way.
When the user clicks a button styled like a tennis ball, a new dog image is fetched from the Dog API, and given a name fetched from the Namey API.
The dog’s image is l... | ['Promises', 'Flatiron School', 'Programming', 'Asynchronous', 'JavaScript'] |
Learning to make difficult syntax easier.
Dogs love to fetch and you could too!
Hi there, I’m Nic and I’ve been going through the intensive process of learning multiple computer languages at a coding bootcamp. This means in 12–15 weeks, I’m supposed to grasp things that take people several years of college to get to ... | ['Flatiron School', 'Ruby', 'JavaScript', 'Ruby on Rails', 'Rails'] |
Codepocalypse Now Redux (or when to dispatch a fetch to your API in the Redux life cycle) aaron blum Nov 17, 2019·6 min read
This is me in the midst of learning Redux.
Can I just say how much I learn from the Net Ninja? Tons. I know that ninja’s are supposed to always hide their identity- this is rule number three of... | ['Flatiron School', 'React', 'JavaScript', 'Bootcamp', 'Redux'] |
Lorem ipsum, the standard filler text that is known across the world by developers and designers alike, has an interesting history that has been widely misunderstood.
Sometimes using Lorem ipsum is called “Greeking” - however, that is a misnomer, as the text is actually Latin and not Greek. This text is primarily used... | ['Lorem Ipsum', 'Flatiron School', 'Design'] |
Learning How To Learn.
My bootcamp experience lasted fifteen short weeks. Some are shorter, some are longer. Despite the length, no bootcamp is going to teach you everything you need to master in tech.
They do you one better and teach you HOW to learn.
Rewind to early bootcamp Sarah: I remember struggling to use Goo... | ['Coding', 'Technology', 'Flatiron School', 'Software Development', 'Careers'] |
(Photo courtesy Amanda Reyes/Photos by Elisabeth Millay/BreastfeedLA)
The Asian Breastfeeding Task Force of Los Angeles, a group of advocates committed to normalizing breastfeeding in Asian-American communities, is launching its first photo project in honor of National Breastfeeding Month August 2019.
As part of the ... | ['Birth', 'Babies', 'Asian American', 'Women', 'Breastfeeding'] |
Pregnancy and SPD
SPD – What is it? SPD is also known as Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction and Pelvic Girdle Pain, when your joints become stiff or move because of hormones, SPD can be felt in the pubic region, groin , in the buttocks, hips and even down your thighs. You do not have to have all these symptoms to have SPD, s... | ['Birth', 'Spd', 'Children', 'Babies Babies Babies', 'Pregnancy'] |
The title says it all really: this is not a birth story of rose petals in a lavender oil bath where the mother has 3 cramps, splashes around in a bath for 2 hours, pushes 5 times and low and behold there he is. That would have been lovely, and that was the aim, but as I knew full well everyone’s birth is different. The... | ['Birth', 'Hypnobirthing', 'Midwife', 'Birthstory', 'Pregnancy'] |
A proposed way to improve maternal health outcomes and eliminate racial and socioeconomic health disparities is through community-based doula services. The word Doula is a Greek word that means women’s servant[4]. With our modern understanding of gender identity, it would be more fitting to alter our interpretation of ... | ['Birth', 'Doula', 'Maternal Health', 'Medicaid', 'Abortion'] |
“What the bloody hell does a Yank know about the NHS?” I can just hear Boris Johnson, Nicola Sturgeon, Theresa May, Frasier and Niles from Frasier, the Queen, Queen (the band), and The Band*, all of whom are the most British people I can think of and will definitely read this article, collectively shouting from their r... | ['Birth', 'Nhs', 'American', 'Comedy', 'Midwives'] |
Here’s The Problem
Society does a poor job of preparing women and families for pregnancy and birth. We live in a censored, clean field of view and anyone who knows about birth knows that this is problematic when things start to get real. IYKYK.
As a result of my own experiences, I have a goal to ensure that the birth... | ['Birth', 'Machine Learning', 'Women', 'Data Science', 'Pregnancy'] |
What Giving Birth Abroad Teaches You About Hospital Visitors
Do you remember that moment?
That one terrifying moment when you don’t hear a cry when you don’t know if your new baby is breathing or not. Then the new baby shrieks the first of many. You tear up as they lay the naked child, still wet and goopy, on your sk... | ['Birth', 'Culture', 'Family', 'Love', 'Parenting'] |
Fostering Livable Communities for Birthing People: Harnessing Data to Advance Maternal Health and Wellbeing Ariadne Labs Mar 9·5 min read
By Leigh Graham, PhD, MBA
The U.S. is the only high-income country in the world where maternal mortality and morbidity is on the rise. Racial inequities in mortality and morbidity ... | ['Birth', 'Maternal Health', 'Data', 'Community', 'Pregnancy'] |
Meet Mira: Birth in the Time of Corona
She was blue before she was pink. Quiet before she moved. Umbilical cord wrapped twice. Christie clamped the cord, ready for Mike to cut it. But seeing Esther with the blue, still baby, changed course in seconds. "There's no time. I'll do it." Esther flipped the baby around, back... | ['Birth', 'Pandemic Diaries', 'Covid 19', 'Miscarriage', 'Pandemic Babies'] |
Our family was plagued with miscarriages and fetal deaths. In the course of 30 years, my mother lost two babies, my eldest sister, four. I, too, lost my firstborn. Of the seven children, only two saw the light of day. In a sense, they lived longer than the rest — in the womb for 40 weeks, in the world for a few hours. ... | ['Birth', 'Pregnancy Loss', 'Autoimmune Disease', 'Mothers And Daughters', 'Motherhood'] |
People shouldn’t ski. Mountains are too steep, too jagged, too riddled with tree wells and unknown contours, to serve as recreational spaces. Even outfitted with ski lifts and manned by burly ski patrol officials, they remain ancient and hungry. Skiing is laborious, expensive play: it requires specialty gear and heavy ... | ['Birth', 'Skiing', 'Motherhood'] |
The consultants decided that it would be best to use induce labour, my wife has also requested to get epidural anaesthetic injection during delivery to manage the pain.
That night, the atmosphere was tense, we were told that because our first boy’s delivery was a c-section, the vaginal delivery might be challenging bu... | ['Birth', 'On Call', 'Production', 'Doctor On Call', 'DevOps'] |
“When you change the way you view birth, the way you birth will change.” ~Marie Mongan
Have you ever watched a cat give birth? A cow? A dog? Paws in stirrups. Laying on its back. Waiting for Dr. Spot to bark the order, “PUSH!” Screaming and crying as little puppies come through that open door to another universe.
Yea... | ['Birth', 'Hypnobirthing', 'Childbirth', 'Moms', 'Pregnancy'] |
Induction did hit me hard and fast.
After the midwife has broken my waters by attaching a tiny little heart rate monitor into the baby’s head, we waited for two hours for labor to start.
That did start me feeling like it’s all about to happen but no contractions.
What did start the labor was the artificial oxytocin ... | ['Birth', 'Feminism', 'Children', 'Women', 'Pregnancy'] |
Double denim divas included for attention.
June 2013. It was just before midnight and I was lying on my back, in a brightly lit hospital theatre, legs hoisted into medieval stirrups whilst eight strangers loomed up from between my legs, dutifully telling me their names and roles. I recall thinking a much more profane ... | ['Birth', 'Twins', 'Pregnancy'] |
Benefits of moving online
One big reason we felt the need to move online was the increased demand for birth certificates. This is thanks in large part to the REAL ID Act, a piece of legislation passed in 2005 by the federal government. The act mandated an “enhanced driver’s license” be issued separate from standard li... | ['Birth', 'Technology', 'Innovation', 'Civictech', 'Digital'] |
To slash the birth rate amongst Uighurs and other minorities the Chinese government is taking some measures. According to an investigation, they are doing this as a part of a campaign to restrict the Muslim population.
According to an App investigation based on government statistics, state documents, and interviews wi... | ['Birth', 'Covid 19', 'Control', 'Life', 'China'] |
One of my recent articles said that white nationalism was a crucial part of the Republican Party platform. At first, I thought that was too harsh, and then I read the news. Former President Donald Trump might be out of the White House, but white supremacy hasn’t left the Republican Party.
It’s always been there. For e... | ['Birth', 'Politics', 'Race', 'Immigration', 'White Supremacy'] |
**Unfortunately, I do not have a perfect memory of my labor. I was running on less than 3 hours of sleep and I deliberately did not pay attention to what time it was. I did not want to spend time worrying about how long labor was, I just wanted to be in tune with my body and go at its pace. Luckily, my doula Meagan too... | ['Birth', 'Baby', 'Labor', 'Delivery', 'Motherhood'] |
Freddie and me, our first official picture.
When you decide to have a baby it is a big thing. Life changing in so many ways. We live in a society that is so dictated by what you see online, you expect it to be very Instagram worthy; however my pregnancy journey was far from that. Sadly in 2019 I had a miscarriage and ... | ['Birth', 'Birthstory', 'Birth Trauma', 'Pandemic', 'Pregnancy'] |
Giving Birth in Portugal: A COVID-19 Odyssey
Photo by the author. Can you tell I’m smiling?
What follows is my birth story. It isn’t short; it’s more of an odyssey.
Although I have shared this account with close friends a few times over, I have yet to find a way to tell it that does not sound dramatic, or make me so... | ['Birth', 'Covid 19', 'Mothers And Daughters', 'Motherhood', 'Portugal'] |
On Tuesday, June 1, 2021 I gave birth to my beautiful daughter Triniti Leona Callender at 11:28 PM in our apartment here in Toronto. The happiest and physically hardest experience of my life. I was supported by my beloved partner, my midwifery team and my parents, Howard and Heather.
When I discovered I was pregnant n... | ['Birth', 'Story', 'Homebirth', 'Birth Story', 'Pregnancy'] |
Absolutely Positive
By all accounts, I appeared to be healthy and so did my baby, who looked and measured great on my ultrasound that afternoon. I happened to go into natural labor a few hours after I got home from my appointment, and after thirtyish hours of at-home contractions (“crazy” contractions, according to on... | ['Birth', 'Covid 19', 'Pandemic', 'Motherhood', 'Parenting'] |
It’s important to remember that even the people that failed showed up when it mattered the most.
“Here you are!” I said as I pulled two bottles of Jack Daniels out of a black, liquor store bag, and plunked them on the counter. “You’ve got six weeks to finish these.”
It was the spring of 2014. I was 37 weeks pregnant,... | ['Birth', 'Forgiveness', 'Divorce', 'Childbirth', 'Family'] |
The Unexpected: Postpartum Anxiety
Anxiety. This one word pretty much sums up my family. Yep, Anxiety. And I never realized or acknowledged it until it hit me in the face with sleepless nights after giving birth to my first child. I just never even thought of it. Not something I would have or even have thought about. ... | ['Birth', 'Postpartum', 'Anxiety', 'Postpartum Anxiety', 'Pregnancy'] |
Bringing life to this world is a lifetime dream for every woman. It is one of the most beautiful phases of her life. And not to forget is very crucial too. As one has to take care of herself and the baby too. The responsibilities of being a mother start 9 months before the baby is born. Yes, you heard it right. Mother ... | ['Birth', 'Health', 'Medical', 'Pregnancy'] |
As much as it was my dream to be a mother, I was terrified of labor pain. Terrified. And the impression of labor that the movies paint for us didn’t make things any better!
I wanted a baby, and now I was pregnant. Between being pregnant and having the baby, there’s labor! May be I’ll have a C section. But guess what, ... | ['Birth', 'Natural Birth', 'Labor Pains', 'Anxiety', 'Cesarian Section'] |
True Joy
I think I’ve always been an anxious person. Since maybe ten or eleven years old, I have been filled with tension, and what I would call “edges.” Nothing flowed smoothly through my brain, from one side to the other. Thoughts I had were always met with an edge and then took a hard, sharp turn somewhere else, an... | ['Birth', 'Motherhood', 'Postpartum'] |
Around the sun.
I'm walking.
I'm dancing.
I'm playing.
Im singing.
I'm laughing.
Into my 41st year. This week I break into another, through the Grace of God. The past year, and all that is this, I dare not even say lightly. That there was pain and suffering at every corner and around the bend. I do say there was ... | ['Birth', 'Death', 'Birthday', 'Angels', 'Ancestors'] |
Note: I wrote this in 2018. Working as a volunteer Doula helped me understand that revolutionary work can be as subtle as telling someone, “You’re strong. You can do this.” I will forever appreciate the opportunity I had to work and talk with BIPOC Women and Mothers at San Francisco General Hospital. However, this essa... | ['Birth', 'Doula', 'Sex Education', 'Revolution'] |
First Time Mamas — You know that you are not feeling yourself, but your partner is equally stressed about juggling the pressures that come with a new baby or, awkwardly, they’re on cloud nine and wondering why you’re so moody.
When you are feeling like this, it can be very hard to rationally explain to someone else ho... | ['Birth', 'Children', 'Motherhood', 'Moms', 'Parenting'] |
From the very beginning they told us our baby’s condition was “incompatible with life” — it’s a term that never really rung true to me, seeing that our baby was living and growing inside of me. I could feel him moving!!
It seems to be a common theme when your baby isn’t going to survive. Pretend they don’t exist, get ... | ['Birth', 'Women', 'Family', 'Abortion', 'Parenting'] |
The storm
After many hours of waiting and watching the entire 10th season of Friends on my iPad (hospital wi-fi sucks), the clock struck midnight. My wife had just fallen asleep and the doctor came in for a dilation check. “Okay, 10cm, 100% effaced and +2! You are ready to go”. We both burst into laughter out of disbe... | ['Birth', 'Birthstory', 'Vbac', 'C Section', 'Cesarian Section'] |
Is it odd to say I knew the moment in which we conceived her? Because I do. It was the middle of May 2019, and my husband’s and my relationship had grown strain. As much as we were becoming undone, there was this energetic pull to hold on a little while longer — like the work between us was not quite done. A couple of ... | ['Birth', 'Induced Labor', 'Black Mother', 'Birth Story'] |
Written by Gina Jones
One year ago today, I had to send my sister-in-law a pic of my chonies because I thought my water may have broken. I know this sounds weird AF, but I was having active labor for almost a whole month up until now, landing my husband and myself in the hospital three weekends in a row to try to stop... | ['Birth', 'Nicu', 'Birthstory', 'Vbac', 'C Section'] |
Due to coronavirus, pregnant women in the United States have been exploring home birth in record numbers. I don’t blame them. Even before the pandemic, US hospitals have been problematic places to give birth. Things are only amplified as a result of the pandemic.
So what’s wrong with US hospital birth?
For one, hospi... | ['Birth', 'Covid 19', 'Home Birth', 'Coronavirus', 'Pregnancy'] |
Brief background: After almost 4 years of struggling with infertility and trying to conceive, I became pregnant through In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF). Once pregnant, I knew I wanted something different for this baby’s entrance into the world. I dug deep into reading everything I could get my hands on and talking to anyo... | ['Natural Birth', 'Birth', 'Labor And Delivery', 'Home Birth', 'Midwives'] |
A Physiological Birth, at home, without trauma, interventions, or tearing
The birth of my son has been the single most empowering experience of my life. I was blessed to have a completely natural, physiological, healthy, supported, informed, planned, and peaceful pregnancy and home birth. My life’s priorities changed ... | ['Birth', 'Water Birth', 'Childbirth', 'Baby', 'Home Birth'] |
In Vedic astrology, 6th house deals with employment or job whereas 10th house deals with business and professional career. It is said that without a proper career no individual can shine and thrive in his or her life. Astrology gives us clear indication in which direction or field an individual is likely to succeed.
T... | ['Birth', 'Astrology', 'Vedic Astrology', 'Career Advice', 'Careers'] |
I’m not sure about other mums or mums-to-be out there, but I think most of the time as we move through pregnancy and towards birth we’ve got a rough idea of how we’d like our birthing experience to go. For me, I imagined candles, soft music and the ability to ‘breathe the baby out.’ But I was conscious of not telling t... | ['Birth', 'Home Birth', 'Natural Birth'] |
Enter, Exit
At the Paddington pub, there existed only one cue for the pool table. The other three had gone missing in a variety of devilishly creative ways: one had been cracked over the head of an unruly patron by his on-and-off girlfriend (off that particular night), another had been broken into even pieces and atte... | ['Short Story', 'Birth', 'Pool', 'Death', 'Fiction'] |
It is the small of the night. The moment in the ever-ebbing, daily tide of light that is briefly paused. A wave turning so that it may suck back its force and contents.
At this moment it is darkest. Most still.
Neither a breath in nor a breath out.
A pause.
I am sat in this dark space. My hands on a swollen, fur-co... | ['Birth', 'Heart', 'Puppies', 'Nomad', 'New Beginnings'] |
Birth is exciting, sexy, transformative and follows a narrative that pleases us. Postpartum, however, is messy, decidedly UNsexy, and seriously lacking in resources, dialogue and visibility benefitting the desires of a modern woman.*
Following the UNsexy goes against culture, but exposes the greatest need. I thought a... | ['Birth', 'Doula', 'Women', 'Postpartum'] |
This is a question that can’t really be answered until you know what a Doula is. So first we will look at What is a Doula? There is a plethora of reasons for hiring a Doula, including evidence-based statistics and emotional reasons. We will explore what a Doula does. And importantly what a Doula doesn’t do.
What is a ... | ['Birth', 'Doula', 'Advocacy', 'Benefits'] |
By the time I traveled to Mexico City to learn from the Luna Maya chapter there, I felt prepared to learn similar things I had learned in Chiapas. And though there was a bit of overlap organizationally, my experiences were actually quite different — especially because I had two weeks here this time around, instead of o... | ['Birth', 'Midwifery', 'Traditions Around World', 'Mexico', 'Pregnancy'] |
After Keisha (our nearly 5 year old pug) decided to hit the Angel Zone, we weren’t quite the same. My family and I busied ourselves in the busyness of life. I grieved ‘constructively’ by volunteering for the Rainbows Bridge, an online portal for families of deceased pets and service animals. 10 years ago, I would have ... | ['Birth', 'Pets', 'Adoption', 'Letters', 'Condolence'] |
The island on which I spent these two weeks…. breathtaking…
So getting to Brazil has kind of always been a lifelong dream of mine. I can’t really tell you exactly what it was that was drawing me there, but it definitely (along with Thailand) was always at the forefront of my mind if someone asked me where I dreamed to... | ['Birth', 'Midwifery', 'Traditions Around World', 'Brazil', 'Pregnancy'] |
What do you get when you put three doulas in a room with a voice recorder?
The answer to world tension.
A bit of a stretch perhaps, but let us explain.
Recently we had the privilege of sitting down with three Birth for Humankind volunteer doulas, Laura Lee Berlingieri, Julie Isaacson, and Maison Levot.
They are all... | ['Birth', 'Doula', 'Maternal Health', 'Volunteering', 'Pregnancy'] |
What I Learned After Two Births in American Hospitals, Plus 9 Tips
In the birth world, I feel there’s a big divide between two sides: all technology/medicine/science, and what’s seen as natural/unmedicated/intuitive. It’s easy if you can put yourself into only one camp, and either have a home birth or just go to the h... | ['Birth', 'Pain', 'Agency', 'Movement', 'Pain Management'] |
A True Story
“You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this frail world’s decay.”
― Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji
I gave birth to my death. 8 times. I wait for the day when I am not here to count anymore.
Age 1- A cord wrapped around my throat but th... | ['Birth', 'Medium', 'Mwc Death', 'Death And Dying', 'MWC'] |
My two birth stories, two years apart
Photo by Tim Bish on Unsplash
March 2018
Around week 36 or 37 of pregnancy, Dr. R. said that I was not at all dilated, but I was very effaced. I had been expecting to deliver late, since I had heard that the majority of first-birth cases are late, but being effaced meant my wate... | ['Birth', 'Mwc Reentry', 'MWC', 'Childbirth'] |
No one knew if I was giving birth to a healthy baby or not. Ali Burns Follow Aug 11 · 5 min read
There are some things that doctors cannot be certain about (in both the pregnancy and the birth).
Photo by Hollie Santos on Unsplash
The sonographer paused and shifted the ultrasound tool. She frowned at her screen again... | ['Birth', 'Fetal Development', 'Doctors', 'Family', 'Pregnancy'] |
I cannot believe I actually gave birth. I’ve always been really apprehensive because giving birth sounds really scary and in fact it is. So many things can go wrong and even though I knew the probability that something goes wrong in a German hospital after what was a relatively problem-free pregnancy is really low, it’... | ['Birth', 'Pregnancy', 'Baby', 'Parenting'] |
“You’re going home soon.”
These were the words we’d waited longingly to hear from the doctors for five terrifying months, but the thought of re-entering whatever constituted a normal life again filled us with about as much dread as when we’d originally left it.
You see, a premature birth tends to be a traumatic exper... | ['Premature Birth', 'Birth', 'Nicu', 'Premature Babies', 'Mwc Reentry'] |
I look at my 6 year old now and find it hard to imagine not having my heart fill with love when I look at him. Truth be told, it wasn’t always this way.
He was conceived around the time I was planning on leaving his father. Just one of those random nights of random sex. We hardly ever had sex at that point. But it onl... | ['Birth', 'Depression', 'Mental Health', 'Motherhood', 'Parenting'] |
With prodromal or “false” labor starting around 37 weeks, I thought for sure that this little one would come early. I couldn’t imagine going past 40 weeks, let alone until 42 weeks.
At 40 weeks, I started to get the usual antsiness. We were walking every day and eating all the pineapple and spicy foods.
Even though w... | ['Natural Birth', 'Home Birth', 'Birth', 'Pregnancy'] |
These are suggested techniques to prepare your body for labor, starting 1 month out from your due date. These suggestions will tone your uterus and support your cervix in getting ready for the big day — your baby’s birth date!
As always, be sure you consult with you care provider before trying anything new.
1. Evenin... | ['Birth', 'Natural Birth', 'Doula', 'Labor And Delivery', 'Pregnancy'] |
130 million people give birth around the world every year. Up to 50% of these will have surgical intervention. Medical procedures require consent — but how? Femtech startup founder Amy Haderer is on a mission to make sure that millions of birthing parents are having their most basic human rights resepcted — with techno... | ['Birth', 'Technology', 'Startup', 'Women In Tech', 'UX'] |
Photo credits to blissful motivation
As I approached the hospital gates, my heart was heavy, my spirit weary. I worked in a baby manufacturing plant. A human conveyor belt. That’s what my perception had become. But it wasn’t always this way. It started as a dream. A dream to make a difference. But one day I woke up an... | ['Birth', 'Health', 'Doctors', 'Decision Making'] |
Stepping back a bit, we were on track for a November 20th due date and coincidentally the 20th is Jacoby’s birthday. For the most part, Jacoby’s pregnancy was smooth. We became pregnant the first month of trying, Jacoby avoided morning sickness and overall dealt with the strain of having a baby smoosh her organs like a... | ['Birth', 'New Dad', 'Natural Birth', 'Dads'] |
The world reached peak lockdown on April 8th 2020, when the majority of the global population, over 3.9 billion people, were legally required to stay at home. Many people spent more time together with their cohabitants than ever before. One might expect that couples, forced into close proximity and with little else to ... | ['Birth', 'Covid 19', 'Fertility', 'Lockdown'] |
Having a Baby During Lockdown Gave Me Parenting Peace I Didn’t Know I Needed
Photo by Jordan Whitt on Unsplash
My son was born on Easter Sunday in a year when everything was broken.
We hadn’t left the house in over a month. Schools were closed and we didn’t know when they’d reopen. Sports and play dates were cancele... | ['Birth', 'Children', 'Motherhood', 'Parenting'] |
Around R’s 3rd birthday is when I finally felt the suffocating grip of postpartum depression start to loosen. I remember walking around New York City one afternoon with R and feeling funny — feeling different. I realized that what I was feeling was ease and even joy. In that moment, there was an absence of the heavines... | ['Birth', 'Postpartum Depression', 'C Section', 'Motherhood', 'Pregnancy'] |
Credit to St Louis FD Foundation
Laws and licensure requirements vary from state to state, so it is paramount to research and understand your own state’s regulations regarding the legality of midwifery practices, but there are typically different types of midwifes such as Certified Registered Nurse Midwifes (CNM). The... | ['Birth'] |
Meet Our Marvellous Mumpreneurs|Becky Roberts
Meet Becky, our next Marvellous Mumpreneur. She tells us the inspiration behind starting her business and what services she offers mums to be and mums in the local area.
1. Describe your business or the service you offer.
“My Business is called Blossom and I offer pre & ... | ['Birth', 'Mum', 'Mumpreneur', 'Hypnotherapy', 'Aylesbury News'] |
We should rest inside, though. (Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash)
I love the cross-quarter days, the pagan holy days that fall halfway between solstices and equinoxes. These are the days when I really notice the changing light, when the seasons really feel like they’re shifting. Unlike the poor unsung Lammas (at the ... | ['Birth', 'Groundhog Day', 'Paganism', 'Imbolc', 'Holidays'] |
As I sit down to type this, I have beside me, a 3.23 kg boy who bears an uncanny resemblance to my husband and I’m pretty annoyed at that — in a good way! Why? Read on.
(This is going to take a while. I’d recommend a nice hot/cold cup/glass of your favourite beverage for you to sip along)
On Monday, 22nd January, my ... | ['Birth', 'Birthing', 'Mothers', 'Motherhood', 'Pregnancy'] |
She’s Carrying The World
I have this thing for pregnant bellies. I love them! For as long as I can remember, I have been drawn to the wonder of a woman’s belly — how it can be home to a miracle growing inside. Currently, at work, there are two co-workers who are pregnant. Both are carrying boys. I have an army of boys... | ['Birth', 'A Cornered Gurl', 'Children', 'Nonfiction', 'Pregnancy'] |
In the middle of Belgrade there was a meeting / lecture for the future moms and dads, given by none other than a person coming from the marketing area (Nataša Vukićević), who mostly works with selling baby equipment and she did not miss the opportunity to advertise about this at the beginning of the meeting.
To make t... | ['Birth', 'Serbia', 'Pseudoscience', 'Charlatan', 'Pregnancy'] |
Can you tell us a bit about your own story and what brought you to this work?
Rebecca Orozco
I’m originally from Los Angeles (Tongva land) and I’ve been living in the Bay Area (Ohlone land) since 2011. I moved to the Bay for UC Berkeley to study Medical Anthropology. Before and through school, I worked as Early Child... | ['Birth', 'Social Justice', 'Labor Justice', 'Racial Justice'] |
On a cold and misty Sunday afternoon, I thought I would check if I was pregnant. I bought the cheap Rite Aid brand pregnancy test, thinking the possibility of a pregnancy was slim to none. As a couple, Tyler and I tried for a baby at the beginning of the month, but everything that I had read said it would take one or t... | ['Birth', 'Grieving', 'Miscarriage', 'Death', 'Loss'] |
Birth certificate attestation is the act of legalizing your birth certificate so that it can be used in foreign countries. A birth certificate is an official document stating the birth of an individual. It includes the name of the individual, his place of birth, date of birth etc. The act of authenticating your birth c... | ['Birth', 'Certificate', 'Services', 'Qatar', 'Attestation'] |
‘It’s all in the timing’: 100 days not out - my reflections on fatherhood so far (Part A) Sunny Dhillon Jul 26·8 min read
‘You’ve got to take a few on the body in this game, son’: Sachin’s arrival to the crease
Our son, Sachin, arrived following a home pool birth at 17:57, Monday 19th April. This beauty was on repeat... | ['Birth', 'Fatherhood', 'Home Birth', 'Medical', 'Pregnancy'] |
Nigeria,
Birthing is messy.
It’s sad that we have come to romanticise childbirth and the labour that precedes it. That’s one of the mistakes we’ve made. In a society where women did not necessarily talk about what went in the other rooms, the media’s been our only teacher.
Birthing is Sacred.
No doubt,
Every cultu... | ['Birth', 'Nigerian Writing', 'Nigeria', 'Nationals', 'Pregnancy'] |
So I asked my brother. “So the second day after Labor Day in 1954” and I am interrupted by him. “Well, I don’t know what day of the month of” he stated gruffly. And I interrupted him. “Ahhh, I could look that up. So the second day ahh, after Labor Day. You think it was a Wednesday, in 1954, was the day you think I was,... | ['Birth', 'Family History', 'Long Island', 'Birthday', 'Life Lessons'] |
When it comes to trauma events, we shouldn’t feel we are different or broken through experiencing an event in our lives that intrudes in our daily living; when in actual fact; we all have experienced the traumatic event that is birth. This is not a call to arms to start a witch-hunt against those who might be accused o... | ['Birth', 'Trauma', 'Jesus Christ', 'Mental Health', 'Life'] |
Star phases
Looking at the natural world around us, we see beautiful landscapes that fascinate us with their beauty. Mountains and forests seem to be there forever, and in that beauty — few people think that everything has a beginning and an end. Although it all takes millions of years — natural landscapes and geograp... | ['Birth', 'Life', 'Death'] |
It’s 5am on June 18, 2018, 2 days before my due date. I am sleeping with my bump on a wedge pillow. My cat loves to steal that wedge when I’m not around. I wake up having to pee, like I often do. And I don’t mean from being pregnant, that was already my life, having to pee all the time. I go to the bathroom to find blo... | ['Birth', 'Epidural', 'Labor', 'Pregnancy'] |
For most of my life, and probably most of his, my late father was the master of items that he called “unsorted but significant” — slivers of serendipity that were both highly meaningful and extremely, assertively miscellaneous, and tended to turn up in the most unexpected of places.
A box labeled by my father sometime... | ['Birth', 'Poetry', 'Death', 'Parents', 'Memoir'] |
The path of becoming a mother, without a mother.
Let me inside you
Into your room
I’ve heard it’s lined
With the things you don’t show
I meet your face.
I’ve seen it before, but only in black and white, and always behind your hand. I’ve waited
a long time for you,
ached not for maternal pastels or
the softenin... | ['Birth', 'Grief', 'Death', 'Motherhood', 'Parenting'] |
Antinatalism: A Moral Perspective
From Google images
So far I have only covered the global and environmental effects of overpopulation. Anti-natalism, or the anti-birth movement, also known as the voluntary human extinction movement, also encompasses moral perspectives.
Moral #1: Life is essentially suffering and an... | ['Birth', 'Anti Natalism', 'Pro Choice', 'Life', 'Abortion'] |
It was joy. It was relief. It was love.
You were finally here. You were almost a week late. It was a Thursday morning, the last day of February. I started having contractions the night before, but they never got any stronger or faster. So, following the pattern your older siblings set before you, the doctors had to he... | ['Birth', 'Cleft', 'Baby', 'Cleft Lip', 'Pregnancy'] |
Healing the Trauma through Home Birth
It is impossible for me to tell my 2nd birth story without telling my first. They go hand in hand as my first birth experience, I realise now, was essential, in order for me to experience the second.
So, to my beautiful daughter Charlotte, I thankyou, for all that your birth has ... | ['Birth', 'Healing', 'Kinesiology', 'Birth Trauma', 'Home Birth'] |
Ever had the desire to write something? Because that’s the only way you can bleed the pain not everyone can see.
It’s a complicated situation where you want to scream, but you don’t people to hear your scream yet you expect them to understand that you’re screaming. Too complicated? Maybe. Who am I to judge?
In life, ... | ['Birth', 'Sarvesh Jain', 'Values', 'Opinion', 'Life'] |
Introducing a new online birth education platform “Learning to Birth” where expectant mums learn from experts how to give birth calmly, easily, on time, at home or in hospital — your way and on your terms.
Hi, I’m Akasha. I’m creating a global online platform called “Learning to birth.”
I’m creating this platform bec... | ['Birth', 'Women', 'Motherhood', 'Health', 'Pregnancy'] |
In one of the triage rooms at UCSF Children’s Hospital, there’s a crack just above the door frame. Or maybe it’s a hole where something once hung. I can’t remember even though that was where my eyes focused for about four hours.
At around 7pm, after 15 hours of early labor, we jumped out of the Uber and walked up to t... | ['Birth', 'Labor', 'Pregnancy'] |
I lay in the doctor’s office. My husband’s two hands grasp my right as my other hand is limp, next to my dictated, resting body. The doctor is to my left. My belly exposed, its content reflecting slight movement on a screen. The doctor introduces an injection first. I look away. Then he inserts a long needle into the s... | ['Birth', 'Poetry', 'Slam Poetry', 'Ultrasound', 'Pregnancy'] |
Can anyone justify imposing life on another person? Every human is born without any consideration of whether they want to be. If we knew the facts of our life before we were born: who our parents are, what environment we are born into, what freedoms we will be allowed, what our DNA will be like, how others will treat u... | ['Birth', 'Philosophy', 'Children', 'Love', 'Parenting'] |
3:50 AM: The nurse wakes me to let me know we’re going to do another check, and then we can go home. And we should come back once she’s actually in labor, which are contractions every eight minutes. (Which is exactly what we did, but we didn’t know the drinking water trick.)
The longest 1.5 hours of my life were waiti... | ['Birth', 'WWE', 'Baby', 'Atlanta', 'Pregnancy'] |
Pack and organize what you will need for the hospital or birth center you are delivering in to avoid the last minute scramble of needing to pack while in labor, or having to rely on your partner or a family member to organize and pack your belongings. Aim to have your hospital bag ready to go by 36 weeks of pregnancy, ... | ['Birth', 'Pregnant', 'Childbirth', 'Labor And Delivery', 'Pregnancy'] |
Can giving birth be an ecstatic, rather than a traumatic and disempowering, experience?
I am writing this on the morning of the ‘due date’ (or shall we say ‘guess date’) of my second child. I am in eager anticipation, not just of finally meeting my new baby and holding her in my arms, but of the actual birthing proces... | ['Birth', 'Birthing', 'Homebirth', 'Birth Trauma', 'Pregnancy'] |
On Tuesday Nov. 6th, my dad drove me to what I thought would be my third to last appointment before giving birth to my baby girl, Gabrielle Joy Holmes. Due to gestational diabetes, I was having at least 3 weekly appointments. We got to the doctor’s office and I took the non-stress test, everything seemed to be normal a... | ['Birth', 'Labor', 'First Birthday', 'Pregnancy', 'Parenting'] |
Photo from Atlanta Black Star
This fall in a graduate writing class, a Black woman said,“The Black body has a harder time with pregnancy and labor. That’s why more Black women and babies are dying.” The Black woman sitting next to her nodded. “It’s a biological thing. Black women are just not as good as white women at... | ['Birth', 'Labor And Delivery', 'Maternal Mortality', 'Maternal Health', 'Atlanta'] |
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