The Blog

I’m Hanan, a Muslim mama, multi-passionate learner, educator, birth worker, and Women’s Holistic Wellness Practitioner. I provide support & evidence-based resources to mothers and women everywhere on pre-conception, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, lactation, holistic therapies, and wellness. I’m a certified Birth & Postpartum Doula, Childbirth Educator, Breastfeeding Consultant, Cupping/Hijāma Therapist, Herbalist, —with a focus on herbal […]

A woman’s body goes through many different hormonal cycles in the course of a lifetime. These changes start at puberty with menstruation, then again with pregnancy, and eventually through menopause. A woman’s body is in a constant state of change. Cupping/Hijama Therapy and Herbal Medicine work to restore hormonal and emotional balance, including the overall vitality of […]

From the moment you see “Pregnant” (or the good ol’ school double line), you’ll most likely be bombarded with a myriad of screens, tests, and interventions, some of which are based on evidence and some that aren’t.  Here are 5 things you can safely skip during your pregnancy if you wish to: Ultrasound done without […]

Birth has always been, intrinsically, women’s business. From a young age, we yearn to become mothers, we are curious about pregnancy and birth and motherhood; we instinctively understand it is an amazing, transformative, and transcendent process and rite of passage. Suddenly as we grow into young women, and we are exposed to images of childbirth […]