When did you first learn about puberty? Maybe a 7th grade classroom, or most likely your BFF. Did you ever feel not normal? Like everyone else was further along or looked differently than you?
Certified Nurse Midwife, Traci Santangelo talk with us about the importance of having these conversations with our mothers and daughters from an early age. Education is the catalyst to empowerment so we as women can feel confident and secure through all stages of life!
About Traci
Originally from Fort Worth, Texas, I received my Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Texas Womans’ University and started my career working in a local Labor & Delivery Unit. I then married a Yankee (don’t hold it against me) and he moved me to Detroit, Michigan, then to Miami, Florida and then to Chicago, Illinois – all for his exciting career.
It was at the University of Illinois at Chicago that I received my Masters in Nursing with a Midwifery designation and a deep desire to move back to the Lone Star State. I was tired of being cold! During that time away, I had two children (that have my heart completely), worked in some incrediblehospitals as a Labor Nurse and really developed a desire to serve women.
Birth has always been my passion. I love every part of it! From the first positive pregnancy test, to watching a mother hear her baby’s heartbeat for the first time, to hearing that same baby cry at birth. I find all of it exciting and am in constant awe of how perfect we are made to carry and birth a baby.
I am a complete geek at the physiology of human development and can’t help but talk about developmental milestones because they are interesting, and why wouldn’t you want to know everything about your baby?!? I never tire of it. And I never tire of a woman’s need to feel validated, heard and respected. You deserve that, you are a woman for goodness sake!
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