Wonder Birthing

11/09/2024

Creyta day club 🤯❤️🙊fun but not our VVVIIIIIIBBEE 🙄🙄

09/09/2024

Ubud is beautiful 😻

08/09/2024

12/01/2024

Sammy’s first comedy show in Brunswick last night 🤣🤣🍿🍿🤪🤪

11/03/2023

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The Cochrane database of systematic review gods have spoken.

An updated review called ‘planned hospital birth compared with planned homebirth for pregnant women at low risk of complications’ has been published and they have identified only 1 randomised controlled study that they could use to draw conclusions and it only had 11 women in it.

The authors state that a RCT is not a feasible way to study birth place outcomes because women will resist being randomised to birth place. For this reason, other studies such as observational studies become the only option when determining the safety of homebirth compared to hospital birth.

In light of this, and breaking from Cochrane tradition of using RCT’s, the authors have suggested that since there is not enough evidence from randomised studies that we use the high quality observational studies about place of birth instead.

So, to this day, no one has been able to show us the evidence that hospital birth is the safest place to give birth if you are experiencing a healthy pregnancy and ‘increasingly, better observational studies suggest that planned hospital birth for women at low risk of complications is not any safer than planned homebirth assisted by an experienced midwife with collaborative medical back up, but it may lead to more interventions and complications’ - not my words, these are the words of the clever research people.

Full coverage of this research on an upcoming episode of 🎙️the grear birth rebellion podcast

28/02/2023

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14/02/2023

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Women’s work. Women’s business.

This is what birth can look like ✨

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18/12/2022

Beautiful ❤️

Welcome to the world sweet baby boy!
Your mom was a birthing goddess as she breathed you down and out. It was beautiful to witness. There is strength and power in patience.



Midwives Gentle Mama Holistic Midwifery Celeste and Patricia.

09/12/2022

Wow just incredible ❤️

💖Birthing positions 💖
We have long been exposed to images of a birthing person in the Lithotomy position, so in stirrups, on a hospital bed with their knees wide apart, or in a supine position, lying or their back or slightly sat up. I don’t need to go into the whys, we all know that mainstream media doesn’t often present birth well. Of course this birthing position is possible and a way to birth if it feels right but what is also possible is following the instincts of your body, and if that means closing the legs more (knees together heels apart) that natural movement and instinct should be observed and encouraged. Knees together opens the pelvic outlet and if the body is instinctively doing this an unskilled birth attendant encouraging them apart will not be helping at all.
As you can see here in this gorgeous image from Tiarne Carney Photography & HypnoBirthing this mother birthed in a lateral position in a birthing pool. A position I’ve seen a couple of mothers instinctively adopt.
There are many ways to birth, many ways to meet your baby and none are right unless they are right for you. During your pregnancy yoga, daily essentials or just whenever really have a go at holding your hands on your sit bones as you open and close your knees, move your heels in and out. Or feel into your pelvis as you try different flows of movements, get to know your body and how it moves, what opens and closes, moves and impacts this area. What space is created, what space is closed. How much pressure is on or off the sacrum even.
Gravity matters yes, but much more than that. Movement matters and your instincts matter, even if you don’t know it yet you are so wise. I believe that the best birth attendants trust well, observe well and pay attention to what a birthing persons body is naturally doing and guide from there only if needed.
💖To reclaim essential knowledge about your birthing body visit Roma Hearsey Doula for a spinning babies parent class. Also the spinning babies website that has many resources.
💖Find balance and comfort with massage from myself or a local specialist whenever you can.
A chiropractor and osteopath is also wonderful.
💖Think carefully about your support team. Who you invite into your birth space matters.

06/12/2022

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This is to the article today in the Sydney Morning Herald- LINK in BIO or

https://bit.ly/3FwhuPK

Violence in childbirth is never okay in the same way that it’s never okay anywhere else.

This form of violence, has long-lasting and far-reaching effects on the mother and the baby and all the mother’s relationships.

Childbirth is a rite of passage, and whatever happens during the experience, teaches the woman how her culture values mothers and teaches her how she must behave to be accepted by her culture.

Violence and lack of consent at the rite of passage of childbirth teaches women, many things, including that their needs and requirements are invalid and that their experience doesn’t matter. These lessons, learned subconsciously, then impact how the woman mothers her child.

Violence begets violence.
And, we can change this now.
70% of birth trauma is known to be iatrogenic, that means it is caused by the midwives and the doctors in their delivery of ‘care’.
This must change, now.