Birthing Since Forever Maternal Care

07/16/2025

I currently have no top for my blender….😕

07/14/2025

Yup! My first baby had it twice around her neck and once around her chest!

Raise your hand if this is among the top ten questions you get from people considering a non-hospital birth.

Reposted from .labornurse

A nuchal cord is a medical way of saying that baby’s cord is wrapped around their neck. ⁣⁠
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This is something you’ve probably heard about and you may even know someone who had this happen during their birth. ⁣⁠
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❗This isn’t at all surprising because nuchal cords are actually quite common – occurring in a little more than 1 in 3 births!⁣⁠
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And even though the idea of the cord being wrapped around the neck seems very scary, in reality, the chance of any complications is rare. ⁣⁠
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Sometimes we know about nuchal cords ahead of time because they are seen on ultrasound, but in many cases, we don’t know until baby is born.⁣⁠
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👉🏻 The most common complication occurs during labor. ⁣⁠
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Basically, when the cord is wrapped around baby’s neck, it can be compressed during contractions, which in turn reduces the amount of blood (and therefore oxygen) that is getting to baby. ⁣⁠
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Often time, we see a decrease in baby’s heart rate on the fetal monitor, which tells us the cord is being compressed in some way - and many times we can intervene!⁣⁠
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🤔 Did you know that this usually isn’t a cause for complications during birth?⁠

07/10/2025

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06/26/2025

This is me headed to Leduc earlier this week to see a sweet l’il 9 day old. The visit was exactly two hours. I don’t time my visits but they often are about that. The next morning I emailed the Mom her care plan. She knew she could reach out to me if she had any questions. I called her the following day to go over everything, as by then she had read through the care plan and practiced some of the things we had gone over at the visit.

Then we chatted again the next day as her baby was weighed and we wanted to see if we were still proceeding with the same game plan. We were as weight was good. 👍

Next week we have a scheduled call to go over more things she is trying. And likely will chat the week after that when baby is weighed again. Of course she will reach out if she has concerns before our planned phone calls.

Some of my clients need more check-ins and some need less. I tailor the follow up to what is happening and I try very hard to take good care of my Mamas! I know all too well how difficult the days can be when breastfeeding isn’t going well and I want all the women I work with to feel very supported!! 🥰

Give me a call if YOU need any help!!

06/24/2025

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05/16/2025

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05/15/2025

05/09/2025

😢but makes sense…