Tag: MATERNAL HEALTH
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Reclaiming Your Cycle: Why Reusable and Organic Period Products Matter for Womb Care
Periods are not a nuisance to manage but a rhythm to honour. How you care for your cycle affects your comfort, hormones, and long-term reproductive health. The products you use each month directly touch some of the most absorbent tissue in your body. That means their materials matter. The Problem with Conventional Products Most mainstream…
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Pregnancy is Dangerous. Here’s Why You Should Treat It Like the Sacred, Risky Initiation It Actually Is.
Many times, people are shocked that as a traditional midwife women’s health activist, holistic wellness and spiritual practitioner, I am always actively warning, educating and building knowledge for people to understand what pregnancy and motherhood really mean and what it looks like, what it could look like and often times that comes with backlash because…
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How to Get Insurance to Pay For Your birthkeeper/Doula
One of the big questions I get asked is if I hire a birthkeeper or doula, will my insurance company cover her fees? And if so, how do I go about it? This is a very good question because if you’re olanning for a home birth understand most of the costs are out-of-pocket and it…
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Herbal Remedies for Fertility and Conception
Fertility is a sacred journey deeply rooted in our ancestors’ wisdom, the rhythms of the earth, and the divine balance of the body. As an Indigenous Taíno, Haitian, and African woman, I honour the power of natural herbs that have supported conception for generations. As you have witnessed, our family’s TTC journey from the supplements,…
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The Misinterpretation of ‘Be Fruitful and Multiply’
For generations, faith communities have embraced the command to “be fruitful and multiply” as a blanket mandate for all women, often pushing the idea that a woman’s highest calling is to bear as many children as possible as quickly as possible. But is that truly what God intended? When we look at scripture in its…
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