family-centered Archives - Barbara Buckner Suárez

You Matter To Me

by Barbara Buckner Suárez | birth workers, devotion

NOTE: I wrote this a couple of years ago when a wonderful mentor/colleague/friend of mine was going through a tough time. Today, most of us are going through a VERY tough time. But the birth workers I know – the childbirth educators, support group facilitators,...

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...

1,000 Minutes – The Golden Hours

by Barbara Buckner Suárez | attachment, skin-to-skin

This morning I woke up at 4:30 am and drove 300 miles North on I-5 for a conference at Evergreen Hospital in Kirkland, Washington to hear Dr. Nils Bergman speak about “Improving Neonatal Outcomes Through Neuroscience.” After I write this post and eat a little dinner,...