James J. McKenna is the world-renown expert in bedsharing and cosleeping, and his book, published in 2009 by Platypus Media, is a great...

A #Celtic holiday and time to welcome the abundance of the fertile earth, Beltane (sometimes spelled Beltaine or even Bealtaine) is a day...

After practicing in Indiana for about twenty-five years - ouch - my husband and I relocated to the Lexington area, which is only a three...

Worldwide, anemia in children is a significant concern, impacting nearly half of all children younger than five years of age (Wang,...

When my youngest was very little, she would scream when she rode in the car seat. We had her evaluated by occupational therapy, as most...

My practice has expanded to the Lexington area so I am just now establishing myself here. I was in Indiana for two decades so my...

It is sad to me how very little women actually understand about their bodies, and men, quite often, know even less. This creates...

My beginnings in private practice were from having first been a Nurse-Midwife and if you're at all familiar with midwifery, you may know...

More recently I had a client share she had crazy amounts of #flushing and a rash after taking a new supplement and immediately after...

Yoga is a eight-limbed life practice of self-care, and only one of those arms focuses on the physical movement most of us know as yoga,...

Everyone has an idea they are selling about achieving optimal health, and I am convinced that for most everyone, it is more a collection...

New recommendations by the American Academy of Dermatology were released in February, just two months ago, regarding the conventional...

It's interesting to me how often clients will have these sort of annoying little ticks, annoying to them of course - not me, and they...

My youngest daughter is seven. She's in first grade and very gentle-spirited. She likes to follow the rules and make other people happy;...

Ten years ago now, I completed my doctoral work surrounding one of the most controversial topics in #homebirth: neonatal outcomes....

Baby #fussiness, to some degree, is super common and even normal. Babies have limited ability to communicate, and even regulate, so...

It's true; I say this about about every age, but I really, really love caring for the #adolescent client. I think it's because they are...

My first ten years as a lactation consultant in the hospital, my biggest challenges were obtaining an optimal latch in a baby much too...

Often I share that my practice is a blend of what we understand in today's science (as I am a full-fledge nerd in every way and...

As most of you know, my career started as a nurse in the Obstetrical Intensive Care Unit, and then I worked for a smidge in the Neonatal...