Your Birthing Body

28/03/2025

17/02/2025

The brain actually shrinks during pregnancy and regrows after birth taking 6-24 months to return to normal (depending on the study you read). Interestingly, pre-eclampsia has been shown in some recent studies to magnify this effect- greater shrinkage.

The reasons are uncertain but speculation says it is a refinement that allows for greater attentiveness to nonverbal cues of infants.

Pregnancy sculpts the brain in a way that may improve social cognition and caregiving.

13/02/2025

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-13/confectionery-being-marketed-as-nutritious-toddler-food/104918940?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link

A new report has found that parents are being duped by food manufacturers into buying unhealthy foods for their kids.

04/02/2025

Dancing in pregnancy and labour !
"Dance during labor could reduce labor pain to an extent, shorten the duration of labor, promote natural childbirth, and improve satisfaction with labor, with no adverse effects on neonatal outcomes."
Love this included study too "During the active phase, pregnant women danced with the midwife "
https://bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12884-024-07132-4

26/10/2024

02/09/2024

My ears naturally perk up to reproductive biology terms. So this is the fun fact I learned this morning after the radio mentioned clouds that look like mammary glands!!

Breadcrumb Home Image Gallery Mammatus Clouds Gregory Thompson Mammatus clouds are pouches of clouds that hang underneath the base of a cloud. They are most often associated with cumulonimbus clouds that produce very strong storms. These clouds usually form during warm months, and are formed by d...

28/08/2024

19/04/2024

Being a parent is tough. Give yourself grace. You deserve it.

😂😂😂 Some days 😂😂😂

15/04/2024

Share the Dignity works to make a real, on the ground difference in the lives of those experiencing homelessness, fleeing domestic violence, or doing it tough. We distribute period products to those in need and work to end period poverty here in Australia. When someone is doing it tough, the last th...

15/04/2024

https://apple.news/AGtvB41qTSBq3F3lkAE1tBg

Anyone who menstruates will tell you: a period often doesn’t look or feel like the rapturous dancing portrayed in a typical tampon ad.