Preggers Can Be Choosers

AfterBirth: 5/28/19 Best PostPartum Practices AfterBirth: A 4th and more Postpartum Support group Katelin hits the Penis Museum in Iceland.  MamaD shares about her postpartum care kits at that she designed according to the Malay traditions, gives us a walkthrough.  Found at  ibudoula.com   Tiff talks about her #momcation, and how it felt when she came home.  Big feels and...

AfterBirth 5/14/2019 Conflict and Sleep Transitions AfterBirth, a Fourth And More Support Group! First thing Mama Dee tells us about water guns and getting into it with other parents. We have a chat about gun safety, and guns in homes, and raising kids around guns. (Hey, this is Texas.) Dr. Blythe rises to the occasion when the neighbors come looking for a fight, and PJ role models some chill fune...

AfterBirth 4th and more Trimester support group   5/25/18 The JJ WAY  Katelin is having a week. Pumping while traveling. Talking about the JJ Way , a cool model of care. Designed to reduce poor maternal and infant outcomes. How to do something instead of nothing. Created by the amazing Jennie Joseph! https://www.commonsensechildbirth.org/jjway/ We spent a long time talking birth and birt...

AfterBirth, a 4th and more Support Group 3/21/18  HomeSchooling and Whatever Else is on Your Mind Bullying while in public school, keeping our kids safe.  The pressure of when and where to get kids in school. Katelin shares a new term, "Screen sitter." Dr. Blythe updated her p ostpartum resource list.  Pat Greer's Kitchen for being our sponsors! Wanna join the FB group? https://www....

AfterBirth: 4/1/18 Teething! And Black Maternal Health AfterBirth, A Fourth and More Trimester Support Group My cat Vetiver bites me in the beginning, sorry about that.  Desiree joins us! From Baltimore! Cel is at work, Terhea is at the washeteria and is starting birth workers of color group in Houston! Black Maternal Health week is coming up! Shades of Blue Project gets a shout out We have a...

AfterBirth: A 4th and more Postpartum Support group  5/19/18 Boundaries and Pumping on a Plane Boundaries while postpartum, carving out personal time. laying it DOWN. Pumping while traveling. And guess what? A breast pump does not count against your carry one numbers! Shout out to Midwife in the Heights and Pat Greer's Kitchen for being our sponsors! Wanna join the FB group?  Text remind...

AfterBirth: 1/09/19 Holiday Shenanigans  Mama D's baby projectile vomits, and then everybody gets the crud, kinda like that episode of the Office. So it wasn't the fireworks that kept everyone up, it was the vomiting.  Also processing grief while in a hunting blind (hey this is Texas). We get a Muslim cultural lesson on rituals of death, which helped us to support Mama D better. Paige is...

AfterBirth: 1/22/19  New Years Resolutions? NOPE. Stella lays all over Rowan's clean massage sheets. Rowan and Paige talk about the birth of Willow, and how labor is a transformative journey. We talk about personal development, addiction and alcoholism, and how to track what are the touchstones of crafting our best days. Dr. B eats a (vegan) taco from El Rey in front of a pt. cause she's been...

AfterBirth: 3/5/19  What Ya the Proudest of? Because who you are goes beyond parenting, yes? Fill us in on your most hell yeah moments and achievements.  Also, PJ has some news! Adilah gets feedback on some Arabic names, and here is her birth crush, Angela Gallo. https://www.instagram.com/the_angela_gallo Dr. B and Rowan talk about their mother Susan because today is her birthday. Alert...

AfterBirth: 4th and More Trimester Support Group 03/19/19 Candy and Kids, welcome to Hell. Oh wait, what other food tips do you have? Well, that was fun. We talked about letting our kids eat candy till they puked. Only one of us has done it though. Tune in to see who! Midwife and overall badass Pati joined us from Trinidad, and we went over some of the more technical aspects of how and why this gr...

AfterBirth: 4th and More Trimester Support Group 04/02/19  Moving w/ Children It's a drag, and has to happen sometimes. So here are some hot tips to success and burmese tiger traps to avoid.  We had some crying, some hearts and some epic pissed off ness. And we are here for all of it. #solidarity Alert ~ Be wary, we are a little sweary. Get your earbuds if you are concerned about tender...

AfterBirth: 4th and More Trimester Support Group 04/16/19  Self Care.  Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it is divine. Either way, we gotta do it to maintain the body and the mind. We talk about the good, the glamorous and why self-care is beyond what is easy.  You gotta fight,  for your right, to (self-care) PAAAAARRRRTTTTTYYYYYY. The Beasties were right. Shout out to Katelin for...

Afterbirth: 4th and More Trimester Support Group 04/30/19   WEANING! Y'all!  This has all the makings of a tele novella. The drama, the guilt, and the second guessing!  Too soon, too early, too late and everything in between. Ultimately we came up with a strategy for Katelin, how weaning is the beginnings of teaching consent and body boundaries. Shout out to cabbage leaves! Mama D r...

Today we talked about how shook up Rowan and Dr. Blythe were after attending "Death By Delivery," a documentary at the extreme statistic that ALL Black women in the US pretty much receive substandard care, and are 3-12 times more likely to die. Pj shared her rough AF postpartum journey, and the crew chimed in with never-ending laundry piles and time management overwhelm.

It went down, and stayed down.

How ya gonna feed your self, the littles, and whomever else that shows up without resorting to chicken nuggets and take out?* Hang out with us while we idea bounce and commiserate about calling poison control. *asking for a friend