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Maternity & Parenting Institute Launches FamilyPrep

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 20, 2014 Maternity & Parenting Institute Launches FamilyPrep: Holistic and Progressive Education In June 2014, the International Maternity & Parenting Institute (IMPI) announced the launch of their Parenting Education program led by Teresa Stewart. Since then Teresa Stewart and Mar Oscategui, founder of IMPI, have created and developed a holistic, progressive […]

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International Maternity Institute Launches Continuing Education Program

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 4, 2014 International Maternity Institute Launches Continuing Education Program SAN FRANCISCO – The International Maternity Institute (IMI) is proud to announce the launch of their new Continuing Education Program, led by their Director of Continuing Education, Jessica Brodey. The IMI Continuing Education Program has been created to support advanced career […]

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Meconium Happens

What is Meconium? by Debra Flashenberg, IMI Advisory Board Member and Guest Blogger This thick, blackish-green tar like substance is considered your baby’s first stool. Meconium is created from the combination of amniotic fluid, lunugo, mucus, bile, and shed cells that line your baby’s intestines throughout your pregnancy. It usually does not pass until after […]

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Why Eating During Labor Should Not Be Forbidden

by Debra Flashenberg, IMI Advisory Board Member and Guest Blogger In the movies and on TV, laboring women are often depicted as panting, sweaty and sucking on ice chips. Luckily, that image can finally change! After years of food and fluid intake being restricted for women in labor, there has been a closer scientific look […]

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Advice for Women with Pelvic Organ Prolapse

As women, there are some special health issues that are unique to us. One of these is pelvic organ prolapse, or what some doctors refer to as POP. POP occurs when the pelvic muscles weaken and organs fall (prolapse) or sink into the vagina. There are different types of POP depending on the organ that […]

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Redefining Super Mom

written by Mary Oscategui You are a super mom, if you are a mother who works full time, takes care of your household duties and your children. You juggle between work, family, social life, and if you’re lucky your well-being. In addition you are praised for handling as much as humanly possible while maintaining it […]

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Maternity Institute Welcomes Child Sleep Expert of Babies to Sleep, Karen Schwarzbach

Press Release For Immediate Release: Friday, April 5, 2013 Media Contact: Mary Oscategui: 415-937-1602 or info@maternityinstitute.com Maternity Institute Welcomes Child Sleep Expert of Babies to Sleep, Karen Schwarzbach The International Maternity Institute (IMI), a leading maternity and birth educating organization represented in twenty-six countries, welcomes Karen Schwarzbach, child sleep expert of Babies To […]

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Getting Stronger for Labor with Sleep

an interview with Mar De Carlo for Pregnancy and Newborn Magazine (for highlights of this interview purchase Pregnancy and Newborn magazine’s April 2013 issue) Why is it important for an expecting mama to try to catch her 40 winks? From the moment a woman becomes pregnant; her body is undergoing many physiologic and biochemical changes. […]

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Mom on a Mission to Revolutionize the Child Sleep Consultant Industry

Typically child sleep consultants are known to work with parents during postpartum to provide “sleep training”, tools, resources, and education in order to get their child to sleep. Sleep Training is most commonly introduced when an infant reaches four months of age or shortly thereafter. Occasionally families begin introducing sleep training earlier on, however very little […]

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Interested in Maternity Nutrition?

by Sara Spears, IMI Maternity Nutrition Coach Instructor Years ago, on my wedding day, my brand-new husband and I stopped at a fast food drive-thru on the way to our reception. My, how things have changed. It wasn’t long after that day that I began to wonder about where our food comes from, and how […]

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