Tranquility Doula Services

01/19/2025

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10/06/2024

09/03/2024

Kissing your baby changes your breast milk. Did you know that the undeniable urge to cover your baby in kisses serves a biological purpose? When a mother kisses her baby, she samples the pathogens on baby’s face, which then travel to mom’s lymphatic system. Mom’s body then creates antibodies to fight those pathogens, which baby receives through breast milk. What?! Amazing, right?

💫 Words by: New Baby 101
💫 📸: Dusktildawnphotography

07/12/2024

This is why Midwife Rachel never puts a hat on your baby! You need to be able to smell your baby. 🩷💙

07/11/2024

🩵My Boy🩵

My boy ♥️

07/03/2024

It's so important to understand the difference between a professional’s obligation, a facility’s access requirements, and an individual person’s bodily autonomy.

These are sometimes confused, even by those giving information about your maternity rights.

Let’s start with guidelines and recommendations.

The “guide” in guidelines exists to give care providers a guide as to what to offer/recommend in different situations.

Care providers, birth workers and therapists do sometimes need to follow guidelines and OFFER you things. But it's ONLY an offer.

(Professionals who care about autonomy will often find ways to word their statements which clearly indicate that, while they are obliged to offer the recommendation, it's only one option. Listen carefully to what they're saying 'between the lines'.)

As the person seeking health care, you don't have to follow the guidelines or accept any offer or recommendation.

Onto access.

If you choose to give birth in a health care facility, it’s true that you might not be able to access everything you want.

For example, you can’t insist on using a birth pool if someone is already in it, and facilities do have the right to decline certain things.

Hospitals may also have restrictions which individual care providers can’t get around, however much they might want to.

But remember that you don’t need to go to a hospital or other facility unless/until you want to, and you are still not obliged to follow guidelines or recommendations even if you do.

Bodily autonomy is all yours.

Except in very exceptional circumstances (for instance if you’re unconscious, under the influence of drugs or very mentally unwell), everyone has the right to bodily autonomy.

This means you can always say no.

You can't always demand what you want (see 'access' above), but you CAN always say no.

Your body, your baby, your decisions.

No company, facility, care provider, or birth worker has the right to restrict that.

More in my book 'What's Right For Me?' which you can find at www.sarawickham.com/me

And there's loads more info on my website.

07/02/2024

My favorite kind of moms
are the ones who come as they are.

The ones who tell you about their struggles
as candidly as they talk about their triumphs.

The ones who unapologetically
push stacks of mail to the side
of their dining room table, so you have
a space to sit down and talk.

The ones who open their car door, empty water bottles and wrappers spilling out,
so you have a place to ride along together.

The ones who let you in on their mess.

The ones who let you in on their truth.

The ones who let you know
you're not alone on this wild journey.

Those kind of moms… they are my people ♥️

05/10/2024

Yes!!!!

Good morning ☀️
Just a ‼️PSA‼️that due dates have a 4% accuracy rate and inductions should not be as common as they are! ❤️

05/02/2024

If you are pregnant and interested in midwifery care you can utilize our 'Request for Care Form' on our website.

By submitting a request, you will join a wait pool that is not a ‘top-of-the-list, first-in list.’ The wait pool is unranked and reviewed frequently by your preferred midwifery practices. If and when a spot becomes available, you will be contacted directly and offered care. Due to the high number of care requests received each month, you will not be contacted unless there is a space available for you.

Completing a request for care does not guarantee you a space with a midwifery practice. If you have not been contacted by a midwifery practice by 10-12 weeks gestation, please arrange appropriate prenatal care through another primary care provider.

Even if there are no midwives practicing in your area, we encourage all pregnant people in Alberta who would like midwifery care to apply, as this helps demonstrate the need for midwifery services in your community and supports future workforce planning.

Eligibility for publicly funded midwifery services is open to anyone with an Alberta Personal Health Care Number, an RCMP Health Care Number, or a Canadian Military Health Care Number. Your path to receiving personalised pregnancy support begins with us!

Find out more and submit a care form here. https://buff.ly/3weNGVJ

04/15/2024

I LOVE Krisha’s stuff!!! She is amazing!