The Magical Birth

12/13/2025

Should you eat dates to get ready for birth? 🤷🏽‍♀️
Dates for labor? ✅ Yes
Me liking them? ❌ Hell no

Yes, there’s real deal studies that show that eating dried medjool dates help tone your uterus and get your cervix all ripe and gooey. Perfect environment for labor!

So feel free to eat 4-6 dates a day starting around 34-36 weeks as long as you don’t have gestational diabetes. But if you’re anything like me, blahhhh 🤢

But you could put dates in your NORA tea or eat those 5 ingredient bars like

Follow me for more unconventional hacks 😅

And seriously, see you at my Live Workshop on Jan 7th at 8 pm ET - we’ll be discussing the Culturally Rooted Postpartum Map to get you ready for the first six weeks.

Link in my bio
https://the-magical-birth.kit.com/products/cultureworkshop

And if you’re not expecting - Send this to someone pregnant now!

04/16/2024

This , we are claiming the right to live and thrive despite racism, poverty, and structural policies that affect our access to quality and equitable reproductive health care. We are incorporating the frameworks of human rights, social justice, and feminist theories of intersectionality into our activism, outreach, and scholarship.

This , supports us and in the movement for better maternal, reproductive and birth outcomes for Black Mamas.

04/08/2024

This year marks the 7th Annual Black Maternal Health Week, which will be held from April 11-17, 2024! In order to uplift Black women and their families, we at The Magical Birth are joining forces with Black Mamas Matter Alliance (BMMA) to center Black women’s scholarship, maternity care work, and advocacy across the full-spectrum of sexual, maternal, and reproductive health care, services, programs, and initiatives. Join us today!

Learn more at blackmamasmatter.org/bmhw

03/02/2024

Hey it’s me again 👋🏾

Connecting pregnant workers with supporters who fiercely advocate for their health and interests may improve outcomes and allow employees to focus on what matters.

02/29/2024

It’s February 29th, a bonus day!

☀️Time to start something new or hit the reset button. What do you need a fresh start with?

02/07/2024

Heres a quick read about how to Strengthen Your Relationship after Baby 🐣

And no, idk what Cameron Diaz was talking about with sleeping in separate beds - how in the world do 3 am quickies happen in that scenario?

Strengthening Your Relationship After Baby

01/23/2024

Let’s talk about why Self-Care is so important as Moms but often so neglected

A Mother’s Guide to Radical Self-Care

01/19/2024

01/13/2024

Info about Blood Clots in Pregnancy and Postpartum

https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/dvt/infographics/blood-clot-pregnancy-info.html

12/25/2023

Throwing it back to the early days of Village Obstetrics! Over the past 20+ years, Drs. Mussalli and Worth have delivered thousands of babies and provided personalized care right in the heart of Manhattan. 👶🌟

12/21/2023

Here are 7 Questions to Ask Your Provider about Postpartum

Of course you can wait until your 6-week postpartum checkup, but I like to ask these questions before birth to be better prepared 💫