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...
by Homegrown Families | Dec 9, 2016 | Blog, Pregnancy
The holidays come with a lot of expectations and emotion, and it’s easy to begin to feel overwhelmed. Most family gatherings center around the table during the holidays and having an intentional strategy to follow for eating well is the ideal. It can be challenging...
by Homegrown Families | Nov 22, 2016 | Blog, Pregnancy, What's the 411?
Traveling for Thanksgiving? Pregnant? Worried about the discomfort sitting in the car or on an airplane? Concerned about the stress of being around “loving” family for too long? Fear not! Homegrown Babies has got your back. Here are a few tried and true tricks to keep...
by Homegrown Families | Oct 24, 2016 | Blog, Breastfeeding, Postpartum
When you are pregnant people are always quick to tell you how you should birth your baby and be prepared to function on very little sleep. You’ll turn into a “mombie” they tell you. At first you think you can handle it. Afterall, you were in your...
by Homegrown Families | Oct 18, 2016 | Birth, Blog, Newborns, NICU/Loss
October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. Talented photographer and blogger, Helen Joy, shares this touching visual story with us in memory of Thompson, diagnosed with trisomy 13, and would not live very long once he was born. Re-posted with permission....
by Homegrown Families | Sep 26, 2016 | Birth, Blog, Doula Training, Social Justice and Activism
Why would a white family hire a black doula? Good question, right? This blunt, layered quandary was posed to me at a recent meeting with African American community leaders in the Hillcrest and Pisgah View Public Housing Apartments in Asheville two weeks ago. It came...
by Homegrown Families | Jul 12, 2016 | Birth, Blog
There are many reasons why an induction might be strongly recommended or suggested to you. There is so much to say about inductions, but I’m focusing here on how to best prepare for your induction experience. My favorite source for evidence based information on this...
by Homegrown Families | Jul 9, 2016 | Birth, Blog, Social Justice and Activism
Facts: The Infant Mortality Rate Non-Hispanic Black 11% Non-Hispanic White: 5.1% (CDC 2015) This is for my white friends, the 1,000+ white families who have taken my Lamaze childbirth classes, my white birth professional colleagues and anyone else who will listen....
