Products We Love - Brief Transitions
I’ve heard so many stories from new moms who have had to steal armloads of mesh panties from the hospital to wade through the days and weeks of postpartum bleeding, discharge, hemorrhoids, stitches, and more. Before giving birth, you might have thought you weren’t a hoarder, but then mesh panties become your lifeline. Why the sudden urge to stock up?
What “The Push” means to me?
I didn’t become a mother through “pushing” the way I thought I would—rather, I became a shell of myself from “the push” and then re-found myself as an unplanned cesarean mama. I had been on a path to have the closest thing to a “natural birth” that I could aspire to, rare for a plus-size pregnancy. I had reasons for cautious optimism. I kept my weight gain on-target, didn’t have gestational diabetes, and my blood pressure was good. Things seemed in line with the tropes that subconsciously shape aspirational expectations for “Natural Birth.”.
Birth Partner Corner: Anna Cheechov
Anna's journey into the birth world began with her own pregnancy in 2012. She was fascinated with the miracle that was taking place in her body: growing her baby and expanding to create new life. She delved deeply into books on pregnancy, childbirth and lactation and was excited to learn about and feel the entire experience. Little did she know, the transformational birth of her 6-year-old daughter, Nola, would be the platform for launching into her newfound passion and career-- the work of being a birth doula.
Letter From Our Founder
We’ve been having a lively discussion about the name of our newsletter “The Push.” On the one hand, it feels empowering to reclaim a term that has symbolized women’s labor - and pain - since the beginning of time. On the other, the idea of pushing has become bogged down, marginalized even, for those who didn’t, or couldn’t, push their babies anatomically into our world.