Happy Birth Day, a new project by Dr. Kajsa Brimdyr

I just finished watching the Happy Birth Day series, a vignette of real birth experiences produced and filmed by Healthy Children Project’s Dr. Kajsa Brimdyr, PhD, CLC and Emmy nominated producer Judy Blatchford with my two- and four- year-old-daughters… I am so excited to give birth again! For me, watching these mothers, their partners and …

Monumental ‘Skin-to-skin contact after birth: Developing a research and practice guideline’ calls for immediate, continuous, uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact for all mothers and all babies from 1000 grams, after all modes of birth

In Western culture, we tend to trust the process of pregnancy and the capability of a human body to grow and nourish a fetus, but there’s a moment between then and the approaching birth of the baby and beyond when that confidence is lost. Among other reasons, loss of trust in the female body forces …

Breastfeeding is eco-friendly.

–This post is part of our 10-year anniversary series “Breastfeeding is…”— Breastfeeding is eco-friendly. Planetary protection has never been more crucial, and the undeniable relationship between planetary health and human health has never been more evident. In November 2022, world leaders, policy-makers and delegates from nearly 200 countries attended the COP27 UN climate summit, held …