Alyssa Blask Campbell Bio Alyssa is the founder of Seed & Sew. She’s an emotional development expert, mama, and podcaster.[…]
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Hospital Birth During COVID-19 + Breastfeeding Struggles
After deciding to stop trying for a baby, Taylor and Brian were surprised with a positive pregnancy test in 2019.[…]
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Military Base Birth in Japan During COVID & Postpartum Preeclampsia
When Laurel found out that she would give birth to her first child at an overseas military base, she was[…]
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Prenatal Down Syndrome Diagnosis & Unplanned Cesarean Birth
Megan and her husband, Matt, waited one year after their wedding to start their family. After four months of trying,[…]
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Two Homebirth Birth Stories
Rachel shares more about her birth stories in her own words below: Haven’s Birth Story My husband and I got[…]
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OB/GYN has a Preemie by C-section with Inadequate Anesthesia
During Nicole’s first pregnancy, her baby was diagnosed with a rare intestinal malformation called duodenal atresia. She went into labor[…]
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Two Birth Center Births & PPROM Baby with Congenital Heart Defects
Valerie’s journey to motherhood started with a surprise pregnancy in college that unexpectedly catapulted her into the world of midwifery,[…]
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Black Mothers & Black Babies Do Better With Black Midwives and Doctors
“Research published late this summer suggests that “newborn–physician racial concordance is associated with a significant improvement in mortality for Black infants,” i.e.,[…]
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COVID-19 and Newborns
“This study endorses the benefits of rooming-in, establishing breastfeeding, and delaying bathing on newborn outcomes and suggests that separating mothers[…]
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Birth and COVID-19
COVID-19 Vertical Transmission: Evidence Grows in China — Three infants tested positive at day 2 via PCR, other studies find[…]
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