Every Mother Count new film series Delivering Hope: Maternal Health Heroes, premiering today, honors and celebrates these real-life heroes. 
 
Over the next three weeks, we will be sharing stories from three countries: Guatemala, India, and Bangladesh. We invite you to come along with us on a journey around the world to meet these incredible heroes, each with a powerful story to tell, face-to-face.

Nadine Burke Harris on ACES

#APMonth 2020
#Parenting with PEACE

"Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress represent a public health crisis. A consensus of scientific research demonstrates that cumulative adversity, especially when experienced during critical and sensitive periods of development, is a root cause of some of the most harmful, persistent, and expensive health challenges facing our state and the nation. 

From the API family, Robert Fox has publixhed "Avoiding Medical Errors" with Chris Landon. This book comes highly recommended for new moms, by Being There author and API Advisory Board member Isabelle Fox.

Be Tech Wise With Baby!

AP Month 2020 is Parenting with PEACE, with a focus on parenting with positive childhood experiences and how powerful they can be. It's important to understand adverse childhood experiences (ACES), for perspective, so we share this API Attached Family interview of Jane Stevens of the ACES Connection Network by Rita Brhel.

This short 8-minute video was developed as an introductory tool for parents to learn about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Three individuals share their perspective of learning about ACEs, reflect on their own childhood and parenting, and provide hopeful insight for reducing childhood trauma and building resilience in children. 

#APMonth2020
#ParentingwithPEACE

Each day of October, we'll celebrate AP Month 2020 with a focus of providing new support for parents and professionals. API promotes positive parenting and healthy attachment, and works to break the cycle of adverse childhood experiences (ACES) Understanding about ACES helps us appreciate the importance of resilience and positive childhood experiences.

Hannah Wheeler gave birth to her first baby 10 days into lockdown, and was determined to breastfeed. Alone at home, however, she found herself in excruciating pain during every feed.

“I didn’t have any breastfeeding support at all,” she says. “It was lonely. I think that’s the best way to describe it. My husband tried his best to support me but didn’t really understand how to help. I remember sitting in bed trying to feed Arthur and just crying and crying. Not just from the pain, but from the hopelessness.”

There could be a connection between food allergies and the development of asthma or recurrent wheeze, especially for cow’s milk, according to new research.

A team, led by Hiroshi Tachimoto, MD, PhD, Division of Molecular Epidemiology, Jikei University School of Medicine, evaluated whether asthma or recurrent wheeze among children were changed by avoiding supplementing breastfeeding with cow’s milk formula (CMF) in the first 3 days of life.

Allegra Gast had 6,000 Instagram followers in June; now she has more than 31,000 followers — and counting — devouring her postpartum nutrition and breastfeeding advice.

The Fort Walton Beach resident and military spouse started her Instagram account, @aloha.nutrition, while she and her husband were stationed in Hawaii. She was working at Women, Infants, and Children and started posting maternal nutrition tips in her downtime.