October 8, 2023 #SaveDaraLuz Update! Greetings Community! We come to you first with some nostalgia: Abigail and Alisa founded and incorporated Dar a Luz (back then “Full Circle Midwifery Birth & Health Center”) in July 2007 and held our…

September 17, 2023 Hello Community!  Thank you for all of the generous contributions in the past 26 days. We are 96 hours away from the end of this challenge and we are ALMOST there. We have just over $14,000 in contributions and/or pledg…

August 21, 2023 #SaveDaraLuz MATCHING CHALLENGE What’s our goal: $30K in Days! What’s our timeline: August 21- September 20, 2023 What’s our pledge: Our entire board and staff (24 people) have pledged and committed to contribute $15,000 total…

August 2, 2023 #SaveDaraLuz Update! Community! THANK YOU for all of the generous contributions we have received in the past several weeks! On June 13th, we sent out our first letter to the community about our financial needs. To date, we have…

June 27, 2023 Save Dar a Luz! We need you NOW! While we are on track to meet our goal of $50,000 by the end of August (we have raised just shy of $7,500 over the first two weeks of this initial campaign!), we still have a long way to go. So…

By Nancy Anthony, NHTSA-Certified Child Passenger Safety Technician As you get ready for summer road trips and vacations, don’t forget to do a quick check up on your child’s car seat status. Is your child in the right seat? Babies grow…

by Laura Wood, Therapist, Blissborn Educator 2022, buh-bye. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. I hope you had a better year than that, but I’m betting between the daily challenges of life, and illnesses and worry and stress, this o…

by Nancy Anthony, Carseat Clinic Educator Let me start by just saying I love books. I love holding, smelling, reading, collecting, and sharing them. Real, paper and ink, turn-the-pages books. Some of my sweetest memories as a child, and as a…

by Tracy Cooper, Dar a Luz Receptionist As we kick off this holiday season, I wanted to share something I think about a lot… I’m sure we’ve all noticed that negative experiences tend to have a greater impact on us than positive ones. Thi…

by Laura Wood, LMSW, PMH-C, Dar a Luz On-Staff Therapist October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. Trigger warning: this is a hard subject for many — miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant loss are discussed in this article. Each are a…