bridge-building Archives - Barbara Buckner Suárez

Supporting Each Other, Supporting Families

by Barbara Buckner Suárez | bridge-building, support

“Another study found that only 11% of women attend a childbirth class while pregnant, and many of those take only the class offered by the hospital. Those classes tend to focus on how women should behave as patients, and less on the risks and benefits of various...

Words Matter

by Barbara Buckner Suárez | birth workers

Recently, I spoke with two different folks about their births. Even though their births were very different from one another, there was one aspect that they both felt compelled to share in the re-telling of their birth story. Each of them stopped and dwelled on it...

United We Stand

by Barbara Buckner Suárez | family

This post was going to be about how new parents need to come together to create a “united front” when it comes to how they’re going to raise their baby. But because of a great thread I’m following on FB, my focus is beginning to soften and, I think, has become more...