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BabyLove Welcomes: Crystal Pollard, Reiki Master
Note from Veronica: I am excited to announce 4 new practitioners who will be joining us at BabyLove. They will be practicing in the gorgeous new offices that were put into BabyLove’s original home in...
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BabyLove Welcomes: Maima Fant, MA, LICSW
Note from Veronica: I am excited to announce 4 new practitioners who will be joining us at BabyLove. They will be practicing in the gorgeous new offices that were put into BabyLove’s original home in...
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Screw the So-Called “Mommy Wars”
A couple of weeks ago, a woman was in my office, and she asked me if there is one word to describe what is at the heart of everything I do at BabyLove, what would that be? After thinking for a moment...
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Am I biased? You bet.
Recently, although I’ve heard it before, the charge was leveled at me that I am biased in my classes. I was called, “Pro-breastfeeding, anti-drugs.” I spoke with a few other Lamaze Certified...
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Meet our new doulas!
As you may remember, I announced the launch of Metro Doula Agency, LLC just over a year ago. Since then, my doula partner Liz and I have been taking clients as a team, and it’s been wonderful. We know...
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Business Basics Part One: Smart Starts
I’ve written before about the realities of owning a business that not everyone knows about. I also spend a lot of time reading articles on running a business, talking with others about running a...
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Summer Workshops: VBACs, Sibling Prep, and Pregnancy After Loss
We’re kicking off this summer with a set of workshops presented by the various providers here at BabyLove. We’ve chosen some common topics, like sibling preparation, and some not so common ones, like...
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Real Mom Confessions: June 3rd
Hey. Hi! Welcome to June. While I got a chance to snuggle with lots of itsy bitsy babies this week, they didn’t distract me from the insanity that’s been my life as a mom of 2 school age munchkins....
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Summer Baby Safety
Today is our very first 90 degree day of the year, so it’s time to get everyone up to date on the things you need to know to keep your baby safe. No water for newborns Your baby should ONLY be given...
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Cesarean rates in US
The CDC has crunched the numbers, and the preliminary data for Cesarean rates in 2014 were published last week. There was a good amount of good news; as ACOG put forth their recommendations for the...
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Where to go to prevent tearing
Awhile back, I did a quick post on a few of the rates of tears at different hospitals in the Twin Cities area. The info has been slightly updated, and I decided to pull the information for all of the...
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Twin Cities Hospital Birth Costs
(Update 11/13/15 12:39PM) Please note that these numbers do NOT include charges for baby. A long time ago, during the Pawlenty Administration, the Minnesota Hospital Administration was required to...
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Twin Cities Hospital Baby Costs
In case you missed it, last week I published a blog post that compiled the costs listed on the Minnesota Hospital Price Check website. Like I said then, there are some limitations on the information;...
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Medical Bill Basics: Explained
Ever since Vox.com put out a video on how hard it is to determine the cost of birth, I’ve found myself wanting to put my head on my desk numerous times per day. If you haven’t seen it yet, check it...
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Free Car Seats at BabyLove
Even before I opened BabyLove, I worked at a local hospital, and one of the things I would do is teach many of the classes we held for people who were on UCare or MHP. They both had car seat programs...
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Twin Cities Cesarean Rate Trends, 2005-2015
OK, so I’ve been collecting historical data on Cesarean rates in the Twin Cities metro hospitals from as far as I could go back, which was 2005. I’ve finally had enough time to pull it all together....
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From the Archives: Writing a Birth Plan
The subject of using online birth plans came up last night, so I wanted to distill my advice here on the blog. Turns out, I wrote about it 4.5 years ago. Ha! Ah well, it’s still good advice. -Veronica...
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What confident births look like
The weekend, during the Ready for Birth: Express class, I took a couple of minutes to show a birth video that I don’t always show; it was a larger class, and it was wonderful to have so many different...
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Announcing Twin Cities Hospital Birth Costs at a Glance!
After last year’s epic process of compiling costs for births and newborn care, I was trying to figure out a more accessible way for parents to get the 2015 data. So, I created a more streamlined...
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What’s been going on?
Hello all, Just as I logged in to write this blog post, I noticed I hadn’t written anything for MONTHS. Months. The school year is winding down, time has flown by, and you’re probably wondering…..what...
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