by Ashli Crew Rodriguez | Jun 26, 2026 | Caring for Baby, Parenting, Personal Stories, Postpartum
Parenthood Doesn’t Always Go According to Plan When people talk about perseverance, they often picture extraordinary moments. But as a parent, I’ve learned that perseverance usually looks much quieter. It looks like getting out of bed after another...
by Ashli Crew Rodriguez | Jun 10, 2026 | Labor, Parenting, Personal Stories, Postpartum, Pregnancy
You are not the same person you were before you became pregnant. That’s not a metaphor. Your brain is rewiring. Your body is reorganizing itself at the cellular level. Your nervous system is recalibrating, preparing for a profound shift in identity, in time, in...
by Ashli Crew Rodriguez | May 29, 2026 | Labor, Parenting, Personal Stories, Postpartum, Pregnancy
Birth doesn’t always end when the baby is born. For many people, there’s a period afterward where the mind keeps returning to moments from labor and delivery—replaying conversations, sensations, decisions, or emotions while trying to make sense of the experience as a...
by Ashli Crew Rodriguez | May 16, 2026 | Care Providers, Postpartum, Pregnancy
May is Maternal Mental Health Month, and it always makes me think about how much of this work is happening quietly, underneath everything people can see. Pregnancy and the transition into parenthood is often spoken about in terms of physical milestones and...
by Ashli Crew Rodriguez | Apr 27, 2026 | Labor, Personal Stories, Postpartum, Pregnancy
There is a stretch of time in a person’s life that doesn’t always get named for what it truly is. It begins, for some, with the thought of becoming—with fertility, with trying, with waiting, with wondering, with questions that don’t always have immediate answers. And...
