by Homegrown Families | Feb 20, 2017 | Birth, What's the 411?
Dear Doulas and Team: I am currently 24 weeks pregnant and am wanting to change care providers. I am curious about exploring the option of an out-of-hospital birth in the Asheville area but I don’t know enough about it. I’d like to find a care provider with an...
by Homegrown Families | Feb 20, 2017 | Birth, Postpartum, Pregnancy
“What a cruel scheme to keep a woman from knowing her power. To put the focus on what pregnancy did to her body rather than focus on what her perfect body just did. Here we sit, creating and nourishing the future and we are diminished to “baby weight.” I will not...
by Homegrown Families | Jan 9, 2017 | Parenting, Postpartum, What's the 411?
Q: After the holidays, with lots of sugar and “treats,” I’m having a hard time getting my family back into a groove with healthy eating and energy levels. Do you have any advice on setting the re-set button post-holidays? A: Oh holiday eating! I think we all do it,...
by Homegrown Families | Jan 9, 2017 | Blog, Postpartum, Uncategorized
Was there an explosion of paper and packages and pretty bows at your house over the holidays? Grandparents, aunts and uncles dutifully spoiling your little one on their first Christmas or eight days of little trinkets and treasures given? Now the New Year has dawned...
by Homegrown Families | Dec 16, 2016 | Birth, Blog
When I was 23 years old, I was held at gunpoint with my three month old baby in my arms by local, drunk, women on my great-grandmother’s front porch in Osage, West Virginia. There were three of them to be exact, but only one had a rifle. She was waving it...
