On average, one year of breastfeeding equates to 1,800 hours of time compared to a full time job that is 1,960 hours so it is very clear that breastfeeding is a full time job in itself. The majority of breastfeeding individuals find at some point in their feeding journey that they need to use a breast pump, so ensuring that you have a properly fitted flange is essential.

Did you know more than 12,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer every year, yet 93% of cervical cancers can be prevented through screening with Pap smear and HPV vaccination.

The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology recommends Pap smears to begin at age 21 and repeated once every 3 years.

When polling women on why they most commonly miss their Gyn visits the most common answer was "pain or discomfort with exams"

Miscarriage is physically hard, heartbreaking, and unfortunately extremely common; 1 in 4 known pregnancies will end in one. There are numerous different reasons that a miscarriage may occur and the majority of the time it is completely out of your control. If you have experienced a miscarriage, the team at Women in Motion holds space for you. During this extremely hard time, lean on your village and please don’t forget that you are strong and you will get through this.

It is estimated that 1 in 4 women suffer from a pelvic pain condition impacting a couple's sexuality and intimacy, activities of daily living and psychological well being.

In fact vulvodynia is the leading cause of pelvic pain in perimenopausal women.

When it comes to planning for your baby during pregnancy, there are lots of things to consider. There’s completing your registry and decorating the nursery but have you considered planning for your labor and delivery? You may have heard the term “Birth Doula” floating around as you research and prepare for your big day and it is normal to be a little unclear on just what the benefits of having a Birth Doula are.

Now that you’re a mom, do you ever look around and feel like your life is totally unrecognizable? Where you used to have predictability, routine, and autonomy, now you have a mushy blob of time and space and don’t even know which way is up? We get it.

When a mom comes to us and says that she doesn’t even know who she is right now, we get started with these two amazing words: Anchor points. One of our very favorite frameworks to help moms make sense of early motherhood, anchor points help us feel like ourselves no matter what blobby chaos is swirling around us.

During pregnancy the uterus expands from the size of an orange to the size of a watermelon. The round ligaments help support the uterus and thus as baby grows and the uterus expands it puts additional stress and demand on the ligaments resulting in pain.