Empathy is at the heart of designing robust solutions. Challenge yourself and see the world of maternal health and new life from someone else’s vantage point. Maybe it’s a story from someone who has learned through experience in a really different environment, or has a multi-dimensional viewpoint on what it means to be “a mom”. Do your best to immerse yourself in a different perspective and then share your experience.
Gain a New or Different Perspective
How might we learn from individuals who have experienced a very different reality from our own when it comes to the new life journey?
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My Baby is Deaf?!
As hearing parents to a Deaf baby, our journey took us from grief and sadness to one of hope and inspiration.


How to Fill the day alone?
Being a first time Mum can be an incredibly lonely experience without sufficient partner, family & friend support around a new mother.


Care coordination services that link pregnant women to health-promoting resources, avoid duplication of effort, and improve communication.
Findings of research on the effects of maternity care coordination on pregnancy outcomes in North Carolina


Teenage Pregnancy in Colombia
¿Are they and the society mentally ready for this responsability?


Rate, curate and share stuff to do
Knowing what things you can do with your kids, and at what cost, can help improve new life, and parental health.


What you need to know about adoption and attachment disorder
Improving the lives of those with attachment disorder and those who care for them


Epilepsy & Pregnancy
'The combination of epilepsy and pregnancy might seem risky, but the odds are in your favor'


Embodied Birthing, the Power of the Process
In-home, water birth, 90 minutes away from the nearest emergency service.


Why So Many Women Don’t Seek Help For Postpartum Depression
Excerpts from an article in the Huffington Post on the stigma surrounding postpartum depression


A significantly higher rate of aboriginal perinatal mortality in Alberta
Merck for Mothers recently launched a new program in Alberta to address access and care quality for Aboriginal women (AW)


Losing a young mother due to poor access to emergency obstetric care in a remote tribal village in India
A ritual of playing drums at the death of a tribal woman who died after a difficult labor and child birth in a remote hilly area of India.


Home Visits by Nurses help mothers and children, especially boys
Example of Nurse-Family Partnership: a program for low-income, first-time mothers, where nurses perform home visits from pregnancy to 2 yrs


Lesbian mothers
The importance of social innovation including sexual and gender minorities in discussion and solutioning.


Opportunities in Low Income, Developing Countries
Training and Implementation of Helping Babies Breathe


The Heartbreak, the Joy, the Journey
I am a mother of an intellectually disabled son and want to share my story to help others who may just be embarking on this journey.


Motherhood from a different perspective
I believe that it is high time that we, as a society, start promoting and participating in adoption as opposed to natural childbirth.


Stillbirth
A taboo topic that needs to be discussed.


What New & Expectant Parents Search For
'Diapers to Diplomas: What's on the Minds of New Parents' - Research by Google
Impossibility As The First Conception Of First Love
No mom is satisfied missing first love's baby -and babies getting something missed though many babies who missed mother breast became famous


Pregnant With Type 1 Diabetes
Personal accounts from pregnant mothers with type 1 diabetes