Month: August 2016

No, not the romantic kind (Although those are also important in late pregnancy for ‘you’ time!), we’re talking the sweet dried fruit of the date palm. A recent research study found that women who ate 4-6 dates daily in the last 4 weeks of pregnancy, are more likely to: Have a more ‘favorable’ cervix when…

The article “Monstrous Births: Pushing back against empowerment in childbirth” is making the rounds, and some are taking exception to it. But here’s the deal- she’s not wrong. Birth isn’t always awesome. Birth is always, on some level, a transformative event; because who you are when you begin, is not who you are after the…