by Sylvia Otvos | Nov 30, 2016 | Postpartum
Your perineum may need some tender loving care! Hello, lovely moms and moms-to-be! Sylvia here, from Rock the Cradle. Today we’re talking about how to heal your perineum—yes, you heard me, your perineum—after giving birth. As you can imagine, your perineum and...
by Jenny Berthiaume | Aug 1, 2016 | Breastfeeding
Are you looking for breastfeeding support? In my prenatal yoga classes this week, the requested theme has been breastfeeding. It’s a topic, that up until now, I’ve shied away from bringing into the studio. Why? I guess it’s that I don’t want to be known as or thought...
by Jenny Berthiaume | Jul 13, 2016 | Postpartum
In our Birth and Parent with Confidence Prenatal Classes, the question of perineal tearing during the pushing stage always comes up. Of course, we never want to tear. Sometimes women do, and sometimes they don’t. What happens if you do tear? Here’s a great...
by Sylvia Otvos | Feb 10, 2016 | Postpartum
Baby’s Umbilical Stump – WTF!? (What’s That Funk?) ‘Eeeew.’ ‘Disgusting.’ ‘It gives me the heebie-jeebies!’ ‘Can you clean it?’ I wouldn’t be exaggerating when I say that most new parents are freaked out by their brand new baby’s belly button – or...
by Sylvia Otvos | Nov 13, 2015 | Postpartum
It all started at a wedding. I had just given birth to my first baby a few months before and was looking forward to some grown-up time with friends – without all the children. When the music began to play, the gang all joyously got up at once to dance. Just like we’d...
