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Big kids are better than babies

November 4, 2015 by Jessica 2 Comments

“But they’re older now,” I thought, hopefully, as I prepared lunches for an outing to the pumpkin patch for which no friends would be joining us and as I thought about our previous trip two years earlier. Even though I know it’s always more fun for them to have buddies and for me to have…

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Filed Under: Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: babies, energy, family, growing up, health, outings, pregnancy, priorities, pumpkin patch, siblings

On moons and mothers

November 26, 2012 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Got the kids to bed exactly three hours ago and dashed off to a lovely evening of blessing two pregnant mamas in my Holistic Moms chapter and honoring a third whose child chose to come before we could bless her back in September. My camera was out of battery, but I had in mind a…

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Filed Under: The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: hope, moon, NaBloPoMo, nature, poetry, pregnancy

20 years ago today: How I Met Their Father

April 24, 2012 by Jessica 2 Comments

I met my future husband at a dorm room party on Friday, April 24, 1992. Twenty years ago today. “You were babies!” people exclaim when I tell them this. Yes and no. I was 19, he almost 21. We did, in some ways, grow up together.  We’ve seen the world change together, from days of…

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: birth, breastfeeding, cesarean, commitment, family, health, Holistic Health, homebirth, marriage, nostalgia, past, pregnancy, priorities, relationship, thyroid

Real Food heals: Blog Action Day

October 16, 2011 by Jessica Leave a Comment

When my nutritionist friend suggested I try integrating some animal protein and animal fat back into my diet, I was offended. Didn’t she know how bad it was for the earth to waste all those resources on raising animals instead of vegetables and grain? Didn’t she know that a low-fat diet was healthier? Since I…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: blog action day, GAPS, GAPS diet, gluten, gluten-free, grain, health, mental wellness, nutrition, pregnancy, real food, Weston A. Price Foundation

Busy in the birth world

April 11, 2011 by Jessica Leave a Comment

While the International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN) was having its big conference in St. Louis this weekend, Birth Matters Virginia was putting on the Healthy Mothers, Healthy Birth Summit on Saturday, and Ina May Gaskin was leading a rally on the Capitol Sunday with her Safe Motherhood Quilt project. Both D.C.-area events aimed to shed…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: birth, Ina May Gaskin, maternal mortality, pregnancy

Birth activists to hold conference and rally

April 8, 2011 by Jessica 2 Comments

“Midwifery and Homeopathy” was the subject of a weekend workshop I attended last year at a conference sponsored by the National Center for Homeopathy. The information I gleaned from presenter MJ Hanafin, and later from an interview with Miranda Castro, author of Homeopathy for Pregnancy, Birth and Your Baby’s First Years, put me on the…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: birth, feminism, Ina May Gaskin, maternal mortality, pregnancy, women's health

Top 10 Natural Strategies for Conception (aka How to Get Pregnant!)

March 8, 2011 by Jessica 38 Comments

Welcome to the March Carnival of Natural Parenting: Natural Parenting Top 10 Lists This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Hobo Mama and Code Name: Mama. This month our participants have shared Top 10 lists on a wide variety of aspects of attachment parenting and natural living….

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Filed Under: Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: acupuncutre, alternative medicine, birth, chiropractic, conception, craniosacral therapy, energy work, health, hormone testing, pregnancy, TTC, yoga

The pregnancy test, one year later

November 24, 2010 by Jessica Leave a Comment

It was exactly a year ago that I found out I was pregnant. I tested two weeks after I’d ovulated and was ambivalent. On one hand, I had been told I was glowing, and I seriously felt buzzy electricity where those cells were dividing. It’s like there was a frequency, and every once in a…

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Filed Under: Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: birth, family, pregnancy, priorities

NWSA panel addresses pregnant women and feminism

November 16, 2010 by Jessica Leave a Comment

I was thrilled to learn that my friend Jessica Clements, birth artist and organizer of last October’s “Perinatal” symposium on birth practices and reproductive rights, was part of a panel  this past weekend on “Pregnant Women: The Outsiders in the Women’s Rights Discourse” in Denver at the Annual Conference of the National Women’s Studies Association: …

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: birth, feminism, Jessica Clements, National Women's Studies Association, Perinatal, pregnancy

Now I’m the know-it-all

May 27, 2010 by Jessica 2 Comments

The other day, I took a prenatal yoga class for the third or fourth time. Amid all the cute bellies on first-time moms, I felt compelled to offer a dash of perspective from the side of motherhood — the one that’s been there already. The following post appeared May 25, 2010 as “Reality Check for…

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Filed Under: Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: birth, health, pregnancy, priorities, yoga

NIH conference addresses vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC)

March 9, 2010 by Jessica Leave a Comment

More personal reflections will follow, but below is my official report from attending day one of the NIH conference on VBAC, a post I’ve also published in my column at the Washington Times Communities. This week, the National Institutes of Health is holding a Consensus Development Conference entitled “Vaginal Birth After Cesarean: New Insights,” a…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: birth, health, pregnancy, VBAC

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