Ebb & Flow Doula Care

09/24/2025

Capturing a few more moments & sunsets together, before our plus one arrives. (Don’t tell Rizzo 🐾 )

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More to come soooon.
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06/15/2025

Two years later, under the same tree he asked me to be his wife, we are excited to share our home is growing by two feet. 💕

06/30/2024

It’s not only a privilege to watch our doula babies grow, but to witness their Mamas too.
In love. In capacity. In friendship.

✌🏼Xo
Your doula, Emily.
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03/06/2024

35 hours later, I couldn’t have been more happy to witness you meeting your parents for the first time.
Welcome earth side, baby. You’re Mama is amazing.

(Happily) *Yawns* 🥱 in birth doula.
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12/14/2023

Interesting!

❗️BREAKING NEWS❗️

A new study published in Nature reveals abnormally high levels of the hormone, GDF15, and increased sensitivity to it, are the major factors contributing to HG.

Dr. Marlena Fejzo, Hyperemesis Education and Research (HER) Foundation Research Advisor and Board Member, and her team previously identified three independent genetic variants in GDF15, all of which strongly increase the risk of developing HG. GDF15 is known to cause nausea, vomiting, and appetite and taste changes.
The new study, first-authored by HER Foundation’s Dr. Fejzo and co-authored by HER’s Executive Director Kimber MacGibbon, was led by Dr. Stephen O’Rahilly at the University of Cambridge and includes an international team of researchers.

The work suggests that, in the future, HG may be prevented by raising GDF15 levels prior to pregnancy using a priming strategy. The study also provides the first suggestive evidence that an interaction between maternal and fetal genes plays a role in recurrence risk. However, larger studies are needed to confirm this.

Dr. Marlena Fejzo lost her baby due to the pregnancy complication, hyperemesis gravidarum, in 1999 and has been researching the cause ever since. “While I have worked, people have continued to contact the HER Foundation with heartbreaking stories like my own, begging for answers. I think we finally have the solution.”

Read more: hyperemesis.org/news/nature2023

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06921-9

Support our HG Research: hyperemesis.org/donate

12/10/2023

✨Yay! It’s live! ✨

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12/09/2023

With you through Pregnancy, Birth & Postpartum.

I got ya. 😉

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04/27/2023

ALL are welcome at our free drop-in community clinic days. Come see amazing midwife Christi Gruchy at your own convenience this Friday for that missed prenatal appointment, baby weigh in, breastfeeding support, lab work collection, or Pap smear!

Non-clients are welcome. Located at the Edmonton Midwifery Cooperative Clinic this Friday from 9-5!

04/26/2023

I’ve yet to add some educational tools and models to my arsenal but I’m not upset with helping me give visuals tonight.
•Snoop on a stoop ✔️
•Umbilical cord with placenta ✔️
•Half knit toque turned Uterus, w/cervical opening ✔️
*Not shown, Ziplock to rep a bag of water/ROM.

What good is learning if it isn’t fun or entertaining .
Improvise. Adapt. Doula. ✌🏻 😂

02/22/2023

https://fb.watch/iSar_5vgQC/

02/11/2023

Skin-to-Skin? Yes please! 💁🏼‍♀️

Skin-to-skin contact can be implemented for all healthy term newborns, regardless of feeding method, immediately after birth.

Improves breastfeeding outcomes.

Increases infant cardio-respiratory stability and blood glucose levels.

Improve mother-infant bonding and infant thermoregulation

Decrease infant crying and pain response.

Are you adding skin-to-skin to your birth preferences? Let me know in the comments below!

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Source: Supporting Evidence for Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC)https://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/pdf/mpinc/supporting-evidence-for-mPINC-508.pdf

02/02/2023

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