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A Labor Nurse’s Love Letter to Her Patients

Dear mama, When I felt my first baby girl kick me for the first time, I felt a million different things. The joy of new life. The fear of the unknown. The awe of the human body. All the things I’d been told that I might feel, I think I felt.  But in that sweet […]

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inspiration + education for empowered mamahood

inspiration + education for empowered mamahood

You don't have to be one of them.
Fear, tension, pain - it's all related.
You don't have to leave this all up to chance.
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Birth is not only about making babies.
Birth is about making mothers -
strong, competent, capable mothers who
trust themselves and know their 

inner strength.

Barbara Katz Rothman

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