I've spent over 22 years researching women's health — birth, postpartum, and menstrual health — the way it should have been taught to all of us from the start: from primary sources, not talking points.

I'm a mother of six, and everything I teach started as something I needed to know for myself. What I found is that the most important things you'll ever learn about your body won't come from your doctor — they come from doing the digging yourself. That's what I do for you here.

I run one of the largest natural birth communities online, and I've spent two decades evaluating research the way it should be evaluated: case by case, not by whoever's logo is on the letterhead. You don't know what you don't know — and that's exactly what could hurt you. These guides exist to close that gap.