Welcome to our blog!
Topic
- IBCLC
- LGBTQIA
- NICU
- PTSD
- STEAM
- action
- activities
- adoptees
- adoption
- adoptive families
- adventures
- annualreport
- antibias
- antibias parenting
- antiracism
- antiracist parenting
- autumn
- baby carriers
- babywearing
- birth
- birth trauma
- birthday
- blacklivesmatter
- bodily autonomy
- bodywork
- bonding
- book recommendations
- bottlefeeding
- breastfeeding
- breastmilk
- bridgetownbaby
- campaign
- celebrations
- chestfeeding
- childbirth
- childcare
- clientstories
- community
- complications
- coronavirus
- couples
- covid
- crafts
- dads
- discpline
- donor milk
- doula
- doulas
- equality
- equinox
Resources for Raising Conscious Kids: May Edition
Daddy Speaks Love, with its gentle prose and airy watercolor illustrations, celebrates a range of dads and fathering experiences. Parents of all stripes will find reflections of themselves…
Resources for Raising Conscious Kids: April Edition
We are driven by instinct to protect our children from war and violence - with the privilege of safety that we have, sometimes the best protection we can offer is to help them understand.
Self-Care Resource Round-Up
When you have a lot going on, self care can feel like one more thing on your to-do list. We get it, and we make it a little easier with a round-up of encouragement and ideas to care for yourself.
Resources for Raising Conscious Kids: March Edition
What we read with our kids matters - words and images shape our children’s sense of who they can be and what they can do in the world. Women’s accomplishments fill the pages of Think Big, Little One…
Partner Profile: Mendwell
Pelvic floor health often doesn’t cross our radar until pregnancy and the postpartum period make it very real! Portland is blessed with amazing practitioners supporting a return to optimal pelvic health.
Paced Bottle Feeding: What, Why, and How?
If you’re a new parent you may have heard the term ‘paced bottle feeding’ swirling around. What does it all mean!? And why is paced, or responsive, feeding important? We’ve got you covered.
Meet the Bridgetown Baby Feeding Team
The Bridgetown Baby feeding team love their work - it shows in their faces, and in the compassionate clinical care they provide to help families meet their feeding goals.
Partner Profile: Ready Set GROW
So much of what we do and learn as parents and parents-to-be comes from the community around us, which is why we love partnering with Ready Set GROW.
Valentine’s Day Gifts: Shrub Club Membership and a Sweet Recipe
Bridgetown Baby partner Sauvie Island Shrubs wants to help sweeten your Valentine’s Day, with a delicious recipe and a 20% discount on Shrub Club memberships and other yummy gifts.
Intimacy After Birth: Preparing for Valentine’s Day Postpartum
With all of the flowers, cards and candies around, it’s easy to get swept up in the romanticizing of Valentine’s Day. But it can be hard to focus on being intimate when navigating the postpartum…
Reimagining Self Care
What do you need to return to a natural (healthy, harmonious) state? Arriving here is where you begin to be ready to take on the world and your mission. Let’s consider what it takes to replenish and access our existing internal toolbox…
Resources for Raising Conscious Kids: February Edition
The ABCs of Black History is as charming as it is informative, as sobering as it is soaring with hope. With succinct stories told rhythmically, this is a book that educates, celebrates, and reverberates in this Black History month and all year round.
We’re Hiring!
We are looking for caring, compassionate professionals to help us reach even more families across the Portland Metro area and SW Washington with quality postpartum care and feeding support.
Evolving to Meet the Challenge of Omicron
I am reaching out to share what we are doing to minimize risk related to the Omicron variant and still provide you with the postpartum care that you need, perhaps even more now than in "normal" times…