I saved the best for last. Asking the hospital staff to avoid episiotomy was a pretty standard request; and to delay cord clamping after birth like I’d asked was becoming more and more common. The eyebrows arched when it came to keeping the placenta so that it could be taken to the specialized herbalist and…
Category: Parenting
Thoughts on Breastfeeding and Herbal Galactogogues
‘’That’s how you can tell who the Mothers are,’’ the nurse at the Children’s Hospital told her colleague in training, ‘’they’re the ones walking across the hall with a breast hanging out and oblivious to it.’’ The observation was made as I brought my own little one into the blood test area. I was that…
Crunchy Cooking 