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Creating Your Ideal Birth Plan: Step-by-Step Guide & Free Templates
Creating Your Ideal Birth Plan: Step-by-Step Guide & Free Templates What is a birth plan? It is an outline of how you envision your labor, delivery, and recovery, and a helpful guide to let your care team know what you desire. A birth plan can be a good way to help you organize your thoughts and feelings around labor and delivery, and helps you and your partner or support person align before the big day comes. It may help to role-play different scenarios with your partner as you are p...
Hospital Bag Checklist: What to Pack for Labor and Delivery
The Important Stuff - Must Haves: 🗹 Driver’s License/Identification 🗹 Insurance card 🗹 A copy of your birth plan (plus maybe an extra copy) 🗹 Phone charger, extra long cord 🗹 Glasses or contacts, contact solution 🗹 Cord banking kit (if you are banking cord blood) 🗹 Toiletries - toothbrush, hair ties, etc. 🗹 Going home outfit for you The Extras - Nice to Haves: 🗹 Snacks, hard candy 🗹 Comfortable robe 🗹 Pajamas - nursing friendly if you are breastfeeding 🗹 Socks 🗹 Nursing bras 🗹 Bra pads 🗹 N...
Welcome to Workplace Lactation Week 2023 - Theme: Preparing for the PUMP Act!
Welcome to Workplace Lactation Weekâ„¢ 2023 - Theme: Preparing for the PUMP Act! Welcome to Workplace Lactation Weekâ„¢, a week created by Healthy Horizons and celebrated in conjunction with National Breastfeeding Month, with a special focus on working and pumping. The 2023 theme is "Preparing for the PUMP Act." This themed week serves as an invaluable resource for leaders, parents, and businesses, providing essential information, resources, and best practices to promote a lactation-f...
No Lactation Room? Learn from These Pumping Horror Stories!
Pumping Doesn't Have to Be Scary! Parenthood, pumping and baby feeding shouldn’t be scary. But sometimes it is. What shouldn’t be scary is pumping especially when you are doing your best to provide your milk for your baby. We have heard our share of pumping horror stories but, rest assured, there is help to turn a horror story into a happy tale. Lactation rooms and spaces are becoming more and more prevalent especially with the law on our side in many states and territories. However, ...
Breastfeeding Reduces The Risk of Breast Cancer
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month As such, we wanted to highlight that there is a connection between breastfeeding and reducing one’s risk for breast cancer. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a recent study found that only about 1 in 4 people think that a woman is less likely to develop breast cancer later in life if she breastfeeds. This is important to note given that while studies have shown this correlation some people, for some reason, are less ...
Celebrate Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month with Healthy Horizons
Feliz Mes de la Herencia Hispana! This month Healthy Horizons celebrates National Latinx and Hispanic Heritage Month,September 15th to October 15th, which honors and celebrates the rich cultural influences, history and contributions of Hispanic/Latinx Americans in the United States. It also celebrates the many cultures of those who come from, or whose ancestors come from Mexico, Central America, South America, the Caribbean and Spain. There are over 28 countries that make up the Hispanic/L...
Check Out This Healthy Horizons Lactation Room Tour
What Makes A Great Lactation Room? If you have a corporate lactation room for your employees, we applaud you. Many company managers, facilities and HR specifically, get overwhelmed at the concept of setting up a lactation space in the workplace. A short tour can be helpful to understand what is needed and answer many questions about the space. Check out this short video tour to explore what one of our Healthy Horizons Lactation Rooms looks like. If you don’t yet have a lactation roo...
BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) Lactation Resources Page
Resources for Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) Chest/Breastfeeding While breastfeeding rates in the United States have increased over the past decade, racial and ethnic health disparities continue. Health disparities are differences in the health of one group of people compared to the health of other groups of people according to March of Dimes. Support, education and resources are all an integral part of a positive chest/breastfeeding experience. These things are not easily acce...
Indigenous Milk Medicine Recap and Resources for National Breastfeeding Month
"Indigenous Milk Medicine is a first sacred food and a sustainable food system that advances rematriation (returning to the sacred mother), public health and ceremony." The second week of National Breastfeeding Month begins with Indigenous Milk Medicine Week. The Indigenous Milk Medicine Collective sponsors the observance every year. What is the Milk Medicine Collective? “The Milk Medicine Collective is a grassroots organization of Native Women, two-spirit, and femme lactation provi...
Black Breastfeeding Week: 10 Years, A New Foundation - Recap & Resources
The final week of National Breastfeeding Month is celebrating Black Breastfeeding Week. Black Breastfeeding Week (BBW) is the sole health campaign with an explicit focus on Black maternal and infant health through breastfeeding. It is the 10th year, of Black Breastfeeding Week which was created in 2013 by three national breastfeeding advocates in response to 40+ years of gaping racial disparities in breastfeeding rates among black women and families. For #BBW22, the theme is 10 Years, A...
AANHPI Recap and Resources From National Breastfeeding Month 2022
The third week of National Breastfeeding Month is celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Breastfeeding Week. Every year, a new theme is set for AANHPI Breastfeeding Week and this year’s theme is Telling our Own Stories. Elevating Our Voices. The commemorative week is is led by the Asian & Pacific Islander Breastfeeding Task Force, whose mission is to “decrease inequities and normalize breast/chestfeeding in Los Angeles County’s Asian and Pacific Islander commu...
Top Lactation Room Design Ideas
So, you’re in human resources or facilities management and you've been tasked with designing a Lactation Room for your employees. That can be an intimidating job, especially if you’ve never seen the inside of a mother’s room before. Where do you start? The best place to start is to put yourself in the shoes of a new mother who is returning to the office after maternity leave. You will want to feel comfortable and supported in the decision to provide milk for your newborn. You will want t...
Lactation Laws: What Employers Need to Know
Employers have an important role in helping new parents transition back to work after having a baby. During COVID-19, supporting new parents as offices reopen or while they work from home is even more critical. In this article, you'll learn about the lactation laws that impact employers and how you can support your breastfeeding employees. Legal Requirements for Breastfeeding Accommodations We interviewed Sheila and Cassi Janakos, the mother-daughter duo that run Healthy Horizons, and ...
Ask Sheila: Baby Vitamins & Breastfeeding
Baby Vitamins & Breastfeeding Carmen asks, “My two month old baby boy is fully breastfed and I just got back from his well check-up with his pediatrician. He was not born premature and does not have any health issues. He is growing perfectly, sleeping four to six hours stretches at night, and is developmentally on target. It is very validating to think about the fact that this is all from breastmilk. I was surprised to hear that I should be giving him a multivitamin and iron if I am bre...
Mommy and Me Yoga Tips
First of all, congratulations on having a baby! Enjoy this beautiful time in your life to connect with your newborn. As your newborn transitions into this world, we must also take time to connect with ourselves, and yoga is a great way to do that. We’ve compiled some top tips for implementing Mommy and Me Yoga into your new postnatal lifestyle. How soon after giving birth can I do yoga? Let’s start with the most commonly asked question - How soon after giving birth can I do yoga? You shoul...
