While I’m on a roll with mom resources, here’s some more local events in town, and global events happening online!
1. Monday, March 22 at 7pm. Mass Midwives Birth Circle at the Cambridge Women’s Center. “Each meeting will include positive birth stories in all settings as well as additional topics regarding pregnancy, birth, and parenting. Come meet women who treasure their birthing experiences.” For more information see above Women’s Center link or email info@mfom.org
2. Mothering Magazine – I get a digital subscription and it’s awesome! No magazines cluttering my house! I wish more magazines did this – I’d subscribe. Occasionally, Mothering also offers packets of helpful information, like this Sleep Packet. The number 1 thing new moms discuss is sleep – their lack of it, and their babies’ ever changing patterns of it. This packet has a lot of helpful information about sleep during the first year of your baby’s life.
3. A new pamphlet out from Childbirth Connection called Comfort in Labor. This is a helpful guide to print out and use when you go into labor. Also, I highly recommend having a doula if you’re giving birth in a hospital – she’ll help you through all the things this handout mentions, and more!
4. One of my favorite articles to come out in the last few months on the NYTimes concerns laboring women’s right to eat and drink during labor. This has been quite exciting, because if you’ve been in labor you know it’s a lot of work and you need *fuel.* Midwives and doulas have been encouraging moms to snack for years in labor, and hopefully this lifting of the ban on eating and drinking during labor will go by the wayside quickly.
I’ll leave you with some cute pictures of our mom and baby class that happens on Friday afternoons. Happy families!
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