Sacred Earth Birthing Services

06/26/2025

06/22/2025

Reminder, it’s okay if you flushed the toilet. 👼🏼

06/22/2025

04/17/2025

🚫STOP! DON’T WASH THAT BABY🚫

Ever wondered what that white cheesy substance is on your fresh baby? It’s called Vernix! It starts to form on your baby’s skin around 20 weeks. What’s exactly in vernix?🤔 Scientists have identified lipids, amino acids, proteins, antibacterial, and antimicrobial compounds such as:

🌿wax and sterol esters
🌿ceramides
🌿squalene
🌿cholesterol
🌿triglycerides
🌿phospholipids
and amino acids, asparagine and glutamine

61% of these proteins can only be found in vernix 🤗

What are the uses of Vernix? 📚
📌it acts as antibacterial agent to protect baby inside and outside the womb
📌protective covering while going through the birth canal
📌allows baby to pick up good back bacteria and leave behind overgrowth of bad bacteria
📌protects baby from meconium exposure(baby’s first p**p)
📌it acts as insulation by maintaining your baby’s body temperature. Infants who are immediately washed have a significantly higher rate of heat loss
📌acts as a lubricant and decreases friction during birth and reducing infant trauma
📌it smells like mama and helps keep baby calm after birth
📌your baby swallows Vernix in the womb. The same proteins found in vernix are the same as those in breastmilk. This helps baby’s digestive tract to be ready to breastfeed.
📌keeps baby’s skin soft and subtle

Why do nurses rub it off? 🤔
Many policies in the hospital system are outdated but still practiced. We were taught that Vernix was a risk of germs. You can ask staff to please reduce rubbing of baby to preserve Vernix on baby’s skin! When baby has their first skin to skin contact with you, this is the perfect time to rub it in, not rub it off.

MAJORITY OF VERNIX IS ABSORBED 24 HOURS AFTER BIRTH BUT ISNT FULLY ABSORBED TILL 5-6 DAYS AFTER BIRTH! LETS GIVE OUR BABIES TIME ABSORB THIS DELICIOUS CREAM THAT SCIENTISTS ARE SO DESPERATELY TRYING TO DUPLICATE BUT CANNOT!

04/05/2025

Not to mention… the vitamin k shot has a black box warning, the second page of the package insert states it has been known to show toxicity to newborns AND the first adverse reaction listed is DEATH!

This is a wee bit biased…but there are some beautiful truths woven in.
Babies ARE born with very little Vitamin K because their bodies don’t start making it right away. One of the many question marks in creation. In the womb, babies get all their nutrients from the placenta, but Vitamin K doesn’t cross the placenta very well. Vitamin K is super important for things like blood clotting (think of it as nature’s bandaid, babies just don’t get enough of it before birth.
Additionally, babies are born with a “sterile” gut, meaning there are no bacteria in their intestines yet. And Vitamin K is partly made by friendly bacteria that live in our digestive systems. Since babies don’t have these bacteria right away, they can’t produce Vitamin K on their own at first. They picked day 8 to start that production. We encourage you to research all the pros and cons and ask questions…that’s true informed consent.
Because of this, you’ll get to make the choice on rather or not you feel vitamin k is the right choice for your baby.
It takes a village…start at The Shire
Xoxo Andie, Kristen and Blair

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03/21/2025

Reminding this midwife to listen to her own advice:

✨Trust the process
🌀Listen to intuition
🧎‍♀️Be surrounded by people who you respect and are living what you desire
📊Information is power but doesn’t trump instinct
🌞Abundance is meant for me
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Eat more protein and drink more water 😝

Big things coming for Devotion Midwifery families and Midwifery in Louisiana as a whole 🧡

08/25/2024

07/25/2024

And been trying to break the birth stigma ever since