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...
by Ashli Crew Rodriguez | Mar 10, 2026 | Pregnancy
Women’s History Month often invites us to look back—to recognize the women who came before us, the paths they cleared, the wisdom they carried forward. But it can also be a time to look inward and notice the ways we are still becoming. For many people, pregnancy is...
by Ashli Crew Rodriguez | Feb 20, 2026 | Labor, Postpartum, Pregnancy
In my last pregnancy, there was a clear moment when I realized my body was asking for something different. What I could do easily in the second trimester—the movement, the pace, the keeping up—I simply couldn’t sustain in the later weeks. And instead of pushing...
by Ashli Crew Rodriguez | Feb 13, 2026 | Labor, Pregnancy
We never stop learning in birth work. Every family, every labor, every conversation teaches us something new. Research evolves. Language shifts. Our understanding deepens. And still, in the middle of all that learning, there are moments when it’s comforting to fall...
