Whenever you go in for your postpartum appointment, I have some questions to consider asking various postpartum care providers to make sure you don’t lose yourself in the dizzying fog that is life with a newborn.

The words/language that we use have power. This is true in daily life, but it is especially important to remember in the midst of labor and childbirth.

Childbirth education is a must. Especially if you're giving birth in the hospital.

A birthing person’s psychological experience of childbirth matters. Every story matters. Whether someone labored unmedicated for 36 hours or they scheduled an elective cesarean or something in between, there’s great importance in making space for birth stories to be shared, truly listened to, and validated.

For the final blog post from this month’s Community Partner, Dr. Gabby, some tender thoughts on pregnancy loss from her perspective as a care provider. On a whim, I asked her if she’d given the topic much thought or if she’d ever written a piece on it in the past.