Happy World Doula Week! As the years go by more and more people are choosing doulas to accompany them during pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood. Whether it be your best friend or the duchess herself, doulas are getting two thumbs up for playing an important, supportive role during this huge life transition. But the work… Read more →
“But I don’t understand. How does the baby get in to the uterus?” The truth is, when your adorable progeny asks the question it can be very awkward and seem to come out of the blue. Some of us stumble. For those of you who’d prefer the talk didn’t go as badly as it did for Lee,… Read more →
What sounds like Darth Vader and looks like a half-melted wax sculpture from Madame Toussaud’s? Me with pneumonia! That is what my winter break looked like, home with the kids and being the sickest I have ever been in my adult life. Thank god for grandparents and a doting partner, or I would be dead. Like,… Read more →
The first birth I ever attended took place on September 25, 1994. I wasn’t there in any professional capacity, as I was all of 11 years old. My stepmother had a home birth attended by midwives in our rented house in Nanaimo, BC (a town our blended family would live in for less than a year before… Read more →
Pets are basically the best. They love us when we’re down, they don’t care how we look, they keep us company, provide stress-relief, comic relief, and an excuse to get out of a boring encounter (“Oh sorry, I have to go walk my dog/feed my fish/count my sea-monkeys). Many of us parents have pets in… Read more →