by Homegrown Families | Jul 7, 2017 | Birth, Blog, Postpartum
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) published a statement on June 30th, 2017 drawn from one case study on an individual concerning an infant’s late-onset, secondary Group B Strep (GBS) bacterial infection and made a correlation that it was coming from its...
by Homegrown Families | Mar 18, 2017 | Birth, Blog, Pregnancy
Have you been watching? Tuning into the live feed of Animal Adventure Park resident, April? April the giraffe is pregnant with her fifth calf. Animal enthusiasts and curious onlookers have been anxiously awaiting the birth of April’s calf. Since February 21, people...
by Homegrown Families | Feb 20, 2017 | Birth, What's the 411?
Dear Doulas and Team: I am currently 24 weeks pregnant and am wanting to change care providers. I am curious about exploring the option of an out-of-hospital birth in the Asheville area but I don’t know enough about it. I’d like to find a care provider with an...
by Homegrown Families | Feb 20, 2017 | Birth, Postpartum, Pregnancy
“What a cruel scheme to keep a woman from knowing her power. To put the focus on what pregnancy did to her body rather than focus on what her perfect body just did. Here we sit, creating and nourishing the future and we are diminished to “baby weight.” I will not...
by Homegrown Families | Dec 16, 2016 | Birth, Blog
When I was 23 years old, I was held at gunpoint with my three month old baby in my arms by local, drunk, women on my great-grandmother’s front porch in Osage, West Virginia. There were three of them to be exact, but only one had a rifle. She was waving it...
by Homegrown Families | Oct 18, 2016 | Birth, Blog, Newborns, NICU/Loss
October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. Talented photographer and blogger, Helen Joy, shares this touching visual story with us in memory of Thompson, diagnosed with trisomy 13, and would not live very long once he was born. Re-posted with permission....
