Mental Push Plan Blog
Mental Tools: Visualization during Labor
Visualization is a powerful mental tool used to direct attention, maintain motivation & evoke positive feelings during labor and birth.
Christiana’s Birth Story
One woman’s journey through fears of maternal mortality to birth.
How to Approach Mother's Day After Pregnancy Loss
Helpful Tools to Navigate a Difficult Holiday
Pregnancy Doesn’t Have to be Unbearable
How chiropractic care can support women before, during and after birth (oh and their kids too)!
Mental Tools for Pregnancy After Loss
Ways to cope with pregnancy after loss from a miscarriage doula.
Postpartum Care
How to care for your mental state after giving birth.
What's Spinning Babies®?
One labor and delivery nurse’s journey to becoming a Spinning Babies instructor.
How to Use Birth Affirmations
Learn all about birth affirmations - the science behind them, how to use them PLUS 10 free birth affirmations you can use today!
Birth Through the Pelvic Floor: A Pelvic Physical Therapist Perspective
Learn about birth through the eyes of a pelvic floor physical therapist.
Postpartum Exercise: A Guide to Working Out After Childbirth
Get insight on how to ease back into postpartum exercise immediately after birth. Spoiler: it’s gentle, slow and steady.
Mental Tools for Miscarriage, Pregnancy & Infant Loss
Read details on some of the mental tools included in our Mental Grief Plan.
How to Help A Friend Who’s Had A Miscarriage, Stillbirth or Infant Loss
1 in 4 pregnancies end in loss. Chances are you or someone you know has or will experience this. Not sure what to do? We can help you help them.
What Are Vulvar Varicosities?
Learn about one woman’s experience of pregnancy induced varicose veins in, if you can believe it, the vulva.
Chloe Ann’s Birth: AFE Survival
Cathy Garrett shares her and her daughter’s birth experience as AFE survivors. Warning: This blog describes birth trauma.
My Complicated Breastfeeding Journey
All of the twists and turns, ups and down, and what I wish I would’ve known about breastfeeding.
Ezra’s Birth
Read about Colleen’s empowered hospital birth experience. While very similar to her first birth, this time her care team and her mindset made it feel completely different.
NAIT Survivors
Learn about one family’s journey through two pregnancies with Neonatal Alloimmune Thrombocytopenia (NAIT).
Dear Bonnie: A Birth Story
An intimate birth processing letter from Kristin to baby Bonnie.
Lauren’s Second Birth Story
Read all about the sprint that was co-founder Lauren’s second birth experience.
It’s Not All Sunshine
How a rainbow baby pregnancy is more complicated than joy after sadness.