Signing off for a bit to inhale, exhale, say goodbye to the Baby Botanica physical space, work on the next chapter of my business, help @goose.works with the next iteration of babybotanica.com, relish the last days of Summer, and get my kiddos ready for their school year. See you in a week or so! Thank you for loving our business, our team, and me so kindly. I adore you all!
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My Nestwell is a village, online, linking parents to professionals in the world of fertility, pregnancy, birth, and the post-partum period.
Follow @mynestwell to become a wellness expert on the site and/or to find a wellness expert in your area.
Baby Botanica is proud to support this novel approach to improving the parenting journey.
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Do you have questions about how homeopathy might help your family?
Rebekah Azzarelli is an experienced, dedicated, warm, and thoughtful homeopath, right here in Beacon, committed to working with you and your children toward better health.
Learn more at beaconhomeopathy.com
#homeopathic #homeopathy #homeopathicmedicine #homeopathicremedies #homeopathicremedy #homeopath #virtualsessions #virtualhomeopathy #beinghuman #stayhealthy #naturalremedies #naturalremedy #westchestercounty #beacon #hudsonvalley #putnamcounty #dutchesscounty #babybotanica
Do you all know about the incredible local parenting resource, NY Babywearing?
#nybabywearing provides support and education about wearing your babies, from birth through the toddler years. Visit their website to learn more about their offerings and meet-ups (link in their bio)
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Katherine Anderson will be offering more online group childbirth classes throughout the Fall, through her website (above).
DM @kathpooch to learn more and register for this beautiful, comprehensive, evidence-based series that will leave you prepared, confident, and well-informed.
#childbirth #childbirthclasses #childbirthclass #motherhood #pregnancy #pregnant #expectingparent #expectingmom #becomingaparent #childbirthprep #birthclass #virtualchildbirthclass #virtualchildbirthclasses #mom #parent #parents #dutchesscounty #westchestercounty #hudsonvalley #putnamcounty #babybotanica
Just posted: "Life is Just a Bowl of Chia Seeds" by Jeni Howe, featuring Jeni's bestie @kjmarkin (pictured below), as well as lots more about snacks, friendship, birth, parenting, and adulting. Enjoy!
https://www.babybotanica.com/life-is-just-a-bowl-of-chia-seeds/
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Thank you GooseWorks for a new website I love!
Check out www.babybotanica.com to see more about my birth and education offerings, to read my blog, and get recommendations for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum professionals and resources in CT & NY.
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That's my belly back there, and I remember this moment well: 36 weeks pregnant, helping with fishing lines for Reid, and trying to deal with a splinter in Michaela's finger. Feeling love for my oldest kids and wondering how in the world we would love another one so fiercely... or have enough hands for all of them!
I have a few second or third time parents as clients in 2021, and we speak often of the labor plan with tots at home (especially during Covid), the sibling adjustment, and how to get the support needed postpartum during this pandemic.
Please let me know if I can help you sort through these emotions or logistics, even if you're not my client. I am always happy to help pregnant people sort through all of it and make referrals as needed. Go to the "Let's Chat" page on my website (https://www.babybotanica.com/contact/) to get in touch.
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Reproductive rights are human rights. Personally, I will continue to vote and fight to ensure that the rights of birthing people -- particularly those in the BIPOC and LGBTQIA communities -- are protected, maintained, gained, or recovered. Let this be a new day where reproductive voices, INCLUDING voices of those deciding NOT to remain pregnant, are safe, honored, heard, protected, and respected.
#reproductivehealth #reproductiverights #sexualhealth #reproductivejustice #birthcontrol #pregnancy #sexeducation #abortion #contraception #prochoice #mybodymychoice #birthrightsarehumanrights #blackbirth #blackbirthmatters #transbirth #lgbtqiabirth #mybodymychoice
My client delivered a beautiful baby last week with the midwives at the birth center in Danbury. I marveled at her stunning labor and the smoothness of the delivery, and celebrated my client having the birth she so hoped for, with no interventions and such.
Her wiser sense of the birth and what made it wonderful, humbled me and reminded me what birth work is, and can and should be: “As much as we can plan and prepare for our perfect birth it is very hard to control the actual outcome. An ideal birth is one that you walk away from feeling like you were not only supported but in the drivers seat the entire time.”
Oh how I wish every birthing person could feel this empowered, supported, and like the person making all the decisions! Welcome to the world Baby Wren, congrats to big sis Slate, and a job well done to their lovely parents. #doulas #birthcenter #vernix #danburybirthingcenter #magicalhour “babybotanica
A client recently told me about these mindfulness classes for birth and postpartum, facilitated by nurse midwives with backgrounds in mental health, public health, and meditation. I think they look phenomenal.
Mindful Birthing Boston is now available to anyone, as their next several sessions are virtual! And the Feb/March series is offering three full scholarships for Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and limited need-based scholarships as well. Check it out! https://mindfulbirthingboston.com/classes/
#mindfulbirthing #mindfullness #midwivesmakeadifference #midwife #cambridgehealthalliance #mindfulnessandcompassion
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So many of my clients are considering their options, wondering about vaccinating against Covid as a pregnant or lactating person... tough questions with no clear answers.
Still much unanswered but some interesting insight and a lovely overview of what scientists do already know (and in comprehensible, respectful, non-alarmist, non-binary language!).
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Wondering about COVID-19 vaccines if you’re pregnant or breastfeeding? - Harvard Health Blog
New Blog! The caption of this month's blog photo (seen here) is: "This seems like the perfect time to bring out my funeral dress from 1990. RIP 2020."
And it begins: "I don’t have a ton of regrets, but as the year ends, like many, I’m looking in the rearview mirror at 2020 (which was full of the highest of highs and some of the lowest lows of my life). Mostly, any regrets I have concern poor behavior, like phases in my life when I was a version of myself I don’t particularly care for. I’m working on forgiveness with that, just as I would try to forgive someone who showed me their worst side or did something that hurt me. Perhaps this is more about letting go entirely than forgiving, just actually recognizing that the past is the past, and each day we all wake up to begin again, take what we’ve learned, and evolve. Regret seems a wasteful emotion, and I generally prefer action verbs. "
Read more here: https://www.babybotanica.com/call-them/
#goodbye2020 #rip2020 #noregrets #movingforward #epiphanies #callthem #doula #doulalife #babybotanica
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Call Them - Baby Botanica
