Dreams During Pregnancy: What Your Unconscious May Be Processing
You’ll find your psyche working through many feelings about your journey from maiden to mother…
Toddlerhood Is… Something Else: 4 Reasons to Join Our Beyond Birth Support Circle in Los Angeles
Toddlerhood is a wild, beautiful, and exhausting season of motherhood …
Creating a Postpartum Plan: A Practical Guide for the First Months After Birth
A postpartum plan is a great way to reduce anxiety and provide a roadmap for the months following the delivery of your baby…
Becoming Parents While Staying Lovers
Everyone knows that communication is a key to a healthy relationship, right? Well, here are some unexpected tips…
Meditations on Motherhood: Finding Presence in the Postpartum Period
Finding quiet moments for meditation in parenthood does not came naturally, but here are a few ways to incorporate your time…
How couples can successfully navigate the “Roommate Stage” after birth
Life After Birth Therapist, Lexi Berard, MA, AMFT shares how the “Roommate Stage” is a common experience for new parents, where the demands of early parenthood create an unintentional drift from emotional and physical intimacy. Lexi helps partners recognize this stage early, rebalance connection, and rebuild a strong, supportive relationship in their new chapter of parenthood.
Eating Disorders During Pregnancy: The Shadow Over the “Glow”
Up to 28% of pregnant women struggle with disordered eating—but many suffer in silence. Learn the signs, risks, and treatment approaches, and find compassionate support from therapists specializing in pregnancy and postpartum care.
Surviving Solo Travel as a Mom: What Airplane Bathrooms Taught Me About Postpartum Resilience
Life After Birth Therapist, Rebecca Stevens, MA, AMFT recently traveled from CA to the Midwest solo with her two little boys. She metabolized her experience by writing this piece called “Surviving Solo Travel as a Mom: What Airplane Bathrooms Taught me About Post
Upholding Our Reproductive Rights: Reproductive Healthcare Resources in Los Angeles
In light of the recent shutdown of reproductiverights.gov, it's essential to highlight local resources in Los Angeles that provide reproductive health support and uphold reproductive rights…
New Year’s Intentions For New Parents (That Aren’t Your Typical, Overdone New Year’s Resolutions)
Setting intentions can be a powerful way to improve your relationship by reflecting and re-connecting as a couple.
Why is Postpartum Support So Important in the Fourth Trimester?
The fourth trimester (that postpartum period spanning the three months after you give birth) comes with. . .
Should I Take a Postpartum Supplement?
Throughout pregnancy, you’ve taken your prenatal—and for good reason. Those vitamins and nutrients helped…
Can you baby-proof your marriage?
Things don’t always go according to your parenting “plan.”
Falling into ancestral meals
Practical + sustainable tips to provide your body with nourishing meals all season long…
Have we gone too far with the “truth” about the postpartum period?
When we extend vulnerability past our close inner circle, do we risk more harm than good?
Understanding postpartum depression and Baby Blues
Perinatal Mood + Anxiety Disorders do not discriminate, and are treatable, and can be temporary…
Pregnancy woes: the top ten most common side effects
What is more painful that the aches of pregnancy is the guilt that women feel admitting that they are having a hard time…
The science of lactation + infant sleep
Sleep training and maintaining a full milk supply don’t always work together…