Uplifting Black Voices: Jasmine Creighton on the Importance of Community Connections
Uplifting Black Voices: Jasmine Creighton on the Importance of Community Connections By: Jasmine Creighton, CLS, Perinatal Health Specialist, Doula This month marks the one-year weaning anniversary of my second child, and I am met with bittersweet emotions, mostly...
Top Nutrition Questions from Breastfeeding & Pumping Parents
Top Nutrition Questions from Breastfeeding & Pumping Parents By Grace Goodwin Dwyer, MS, MA, RD, LDN, IBCLC As a Registered Dietitian who also works as an IBCLC, I get so many questions about how what we eat affects lactation – and vice versa! Most parents are...
Honoring Indigenous Heritage: How Traditional Birthing Practices Strengthens Communities
Honoring Indigenous Heritage: How Traditional Birthing Practices Strengthens Communities By: Iktomi Wašte Winyan Favel The Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center’s Traditional Birthing Team Thunwinna’s (Thunwinna means non-blood auntie. Our own version of a Doula)...