HPM 17 is ready to enjoy! Get your hands on this beautiful issue HERE Explore interesting and heartwarming articles in this issue: Featuring Making Waves: Mindful Parenting, Transformed World by Shana Smith Exquisite Self-Care for Moms, by Nova Cox Surviving the Unthinkable; When a Child Dies, by Fi Dann Tricky People: Teaching Our Children About Strangers, by Jodi Norton Also in this Issue: Thriving Versus Surviving at School, by Stephany O’Leary…
Read more...Are you ready for an adventure? Do you love HPM? Are YOU the person to continue HPM’s vision? Due to personal reasons, I have decided to sell our beloved magazine. HPM has been a labor of love and source of much joy for almost three years. I have produced 16 (Issue 17 is almost ready–please bear with me!) beautiful issues, which have been enthusiastically received across the globe. Our readers…
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The Homebirth Baby–Everything You Need to Know About Pregnancy and Childbirth By Anita Evensen Evensen unabashedly advocates a natural approach to childbirth, based on her own personal experiences and informed decision making. If the reader desires to birth naturally, Evensen provides detailed information on how to achieve this. This interesting and informative book covers everything from prenatal care to the stages of labor, from a father’s guide to newborn evaluation.
Read more...…is that you don’t even have to. You have a uterus just dying to push for you, and if you just shhhhhhhush. Shhhuuushhh your busy worried over-thinking brain. Be calm and allow your mind to work with the incredible uterine pressure it will push your baby all the way to their first breath, while you slowly exhale your own. “We are not suddenly abandoned at the end of our pregnancy. There is…
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So you’ve decided, along with a growing number of other loving and intelligent mothers and fathers, not to vaccinate your child. You’ve done your research, however little or lot you needed to do, to support yourself in feeling confident about your decision. You’ve talked with people whose moral compass you trust. You’ve watched what other parents have done, you’ve observed how healthy unvaccinated children often are, and you have declined…
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As a doula, I hold sacred space for women as they transform into mothers. It is an indescribable privilege to watch the bodies of women open as new life emerges in birth. As a mother, my body too transformed. The memory of the primal power of labor and birth stays with me to this day. Two years later, I find refuge in a profoundly peaceful space as my son continues…
Read more...“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning, but a going on with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.” -Hal Borland This quote reminds me of a combination of the oh-so-true phrase, “Hindsight is 20/20.” and “When you know better, you do better.” (Maya Angelou). As our calenders change from 2015 to 2016, it’s technically a fresh start- but so is every morning. As parents, we…
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In the nine months I was pregnant with my son and in the first months of his life, no one mentioned anything about how to approach situations where my toddler doesn’t want to hug Aunt Sarah or Grandpa or their second cousin. I guess it’s one of those things that get pushed aside until they get older and then you’re presented with this situation and you’re like, “Oh, okay, what…
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Written by Annie Parson I have two friends who say that they each know two babies who died at home because of a midwife. I’m not sure who these babies are and what the reality is. Babies sometimes die, though we like to pretend that this never happens. They die in hospitals and they die at home, though thankfully most of our babies live and thrive. I chose to birth…
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