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New Jersey: Part Two: Women’s Reproductive Health Events
Originally posted May 20, 2013. Spring was a great time for Women’s Reproductive Health events in New Jersey. I was fortunate enough to...


No Easy Tips to Cope with the Sandy Hook Tragedy
Originally posted December 15, 2012. There are no easy tips for coping with the tragedy of the loss the families in Sandy Hook,...


Snooki – Our Jersey Girl as a Public Health Role Model?
Originally published November 5, 2012. Unless you live under a rock and don’t go out at all, you have to know that Jersey Shore’s Nicole...


Guest Post: My Birth Story: Reliving, Rehashing, and Now Rewriting
Originally posted October 29, 2012. My Birth Story: Reliving, Rehashing, and Now Rewriting by Brandy Ash Myers, NCC Today is a beautiful...


New Study: Chronic Stress During Pregnancy Increases Risk for Postpartum Depression
Originally posted October 15, 2012. Benedetta Leuner, assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at Ohio State University,...


How Much Stress is Too Much Stress in Pregnancy?
Originally posted September 26, 2012. I’d love to share with you a chapter from new book, BirthTouch: Shiatsu and Acupressure for the...
Book Review: One Mom’s Journey to Motherhood by Ivy Shih Leung
Originally posted July 31, 2012. I met Ivy at Postpartum Support International’s Conference in 2011. She had such a nice feeling about...


Hel-looo Birth World – the Sky is Blue: Part One of an interview with Walker Karraa MFA, MA CD(DONA)
Originally posted June 25, 2012. How Long Must We Ask for Compassionate Care? Why aren’t our childbirth websites and our perinatal mental...


Do It YourSelf-Care DIY-Care for Marriage Therapy
Originally posted June 7, 2012. ”Positive feeling systems must be built and maintained intentionally (as part of couples therapy or...


Do It YourSelf-Care DIY-Care Garden Therapy!
Originally posted May 29, 2012. ”Therapeutic horticulture...provides positive distraction and attentional engagement…(which) mediates ...
Bullied as an Adult: Making Sense of Mean-ness ?
Originally posted May 18, 2012. For the American Psychological Association’s Blog Party for Mental Health Month, I decided to write about...


Don’t Eat Yellow Snow! Increase the Joy! Decrease the Drama! About Companion Pets!
Originally posted April 11, 2012. "Pets respond eagerly to care and attention, offering unconditional love and non-threatening...


Grant Funded Community Doula Program
Originally posted April 6, 2012. Jill Gerken Wodnick has written a Guest Post about the Hudson Perinatal Community Doula Project for...


New Research – Changes in Labor Patterns Over 50 Years
Originally published April 2, 2012. New research was published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Katherine Laughon,...


Guest Community Manager(April) for Lamaze
Originally posted April 1, 2012. Science and Sensibility I am honored and hope that I can do a good job for Lamaze International for the...


Perinatal Mental Health Join Us at the ICAN Meeting
Originally published March 26, 2012. Join us on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at the International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN) of...


#OccupyHealthCare #MindBody Practices – They are FREE
Originally published March 12, 2012. Mindbody practices have so many benefits, you’d have to order online from outside the US to be able...


Share Your Story: Janet ‘The Laundress’ Postpartum Psychosis Story
Originally published February 27, 2012. Share Your Story – Postpartum Psychosis Janet’s Experience – Postpartum Psychosis & Recovery...


Share Your Story – Ann Kirchner’s Birth Trauma and Postpartum Depression Story
Originally published February 20, 2012. Share Your Story – New series from BirthTouch! Ann Kirchner, CD(DONA) has graciously agreed to...


Valentines Post – And Baby Makes A Family
Originally published February 11, 2012. You remember the intensity at the beginning of your relationship: you were enveloped in an...
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