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December 2024 Newsletter

Written on December 12, 2024.

A Message from Abigail Community, friends, and family—we did it! Giving Tuesday was a great success and we met our challenge of raising $15,000 to match a generous grant from the Anderson Charitable Foundation for the second year in a row. Thank...

2024 National Midwifery Week

Written on October 3, 2024.

October 6-12, 2024 National Midwifery Week (#MidwiferyWeek2024) was created by the American College Nurse Midwives to celebrate and recognize midwives and midwife-led care. This year’s theme is “Midwives Looking to the Future.”...

Happy September!

Written on September 5, 2024.

With September comes the changing of the seasons, and we’re ready to continue sharing the exciting changes and events happening at DAL! Our annual family day is BACK! We are so excited to announce the return of our DAL family day...

Introducing Our New Director of Development!

Written on August 2, 2024.

Hello! I’m Gabriela Estala-Lopez, an Albuquerque native and UNM alumna with a heart for community work. My journey started at Global Ties ABQ and led to a focus on reproductive health care with Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains....

4 All-Natural, At-Home Summer Activities for Kids

Written on May 25, 2021.

by Savannah Holloway, Holloway, RN, Birth Assistant What a year 2020 was! The pandemic turned everyday life upside down for everyone—adults and children alike. Many parents were faced with the challenge of home-schooling AND home-entertaining....

A little motherly advice, just in time for Mother’s Day!

Written on May 3, 2021.

Compiled by Corrianne Parada, CNM Mother’s Day is this Sunday, and for many of you this might be your first time celebrating as you are preparing to enter into motherhood, or are entering it yet again. On this special day, we would like to...

The one where we share some staff changes…

Written on February 2, 2021.

This new year is bringing about some lovely changes, and some that are a bit bittersweet. We would like to start by congratulating Alisa on her new position as Clinical Director! Coming Home…by Alisa Henning, CNM As some of you may have heard,...

Infusing more joy into your pregnancy for a happier baby!

Written on September 22, 2020.

By Corrianne Parada, CNM The year 2020 has been a time of unprecedented social, emotional, physical, and economic stress for most of us. We have all had to face a pandemic, which brings with it so many complicated implications and changes to our...

For Partners! (and the Moms who love them)

Written on September 8, 2020. 2 Comments on For Partners! (and the Moms who love them)

by Laura Wood, CHt, BHE Hello to all the Partners/Dads/Other Moms/Other Parents out there! I wanted to send you some love, because you are amazing and so important, and sometimes kind of overlooked in this whole process. At Dar a Luz, we do focus...

Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable

Written on June 16, 2020.

Community—this is probably the hardest thing I have ever had to write in my entire life. I will do my best to convey my thoughts carefully and concisely. I will probably offend someone and I certainly don’t mean to. I am simply trying to speak and...