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06/28/2025

05/11/2025

Happy Mother’s Day ❤️

“All the eggs a woman will ever carry form in her ovaries while she is a four-month-old fetus in the womb of her mother.

This means our cellular life as an egg begins in the womb of our grandmother.

Each of us spent five months in our grandmother's womb, and she in turn formed in the womb of her grandmother.

We vibrate to the rhythm of our mother's blood before she herself is born, and this pulse is the thread of blood that runs all the way back through the grandmothers to the first mother.”

~ Layne Redmond
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02/24/2025

Focus on quality of food in the 🍲🥑🍳🥩

💖 Have a friend set up a meal train for you and share it with your community
💖 Prepare freezer meals in advance
💖 Make a list of foods you can make and eat with only one hand (so you can hold your and stay well-fed)
💖 Partners - prepare easy to grab snacks at the beginning of the week so when you go back to work, there are nourishing options available!

02/24/2025

02/24/2025

Every child is a world unto themselves. The only book that matters here is the one you and your child are co-writing. Together, you decide how your story goes. ❤️

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02/19/2025

Did you know that Dads also experience hormonal shifts and structural brain changes following the birth of their baby?

Researchers have found that emotionally
🤩involved fathers experience:
🤩increased oxytocin (the love hormone)
🤩increased dopamine (the happy hormone)
🤩reduced levels of testosterone (aggression,
s*x drive hormone)
🤩higher levels of prolactin (breastfeeding
hormone)
🤩higher levels of vasopressin (bonding
hormone)

Research has also shown that men who hold their
baby close within the first 24 hours following birth, report better bonding. Dads should definitely enjoy skin to skin too, just a half hour of skin-to-skin for dad essentially rewires their brain. I encourage dad to have his first skin to skin not long after birth, while mum enjoys her first (unforgettable and well deserved) shower.

Other benefits of skin to skin include:
🥰calms and relaxes both dad and baby
🥰regulates baby's heart rate, breathing, temperature and blood sugars; helping bub to better adapt to earthside life
🥰enables colonisation of baby's skin from the
natural flora which exists on dads skin, thus providing immunity and protection against infection.

"The brain also appears to undergo structural changes to ensure that fathers exhibit the key
skills of parenting. In 2014, Pilyoung Kim, a
developmental neuroscientist at the University of
Denver, put 16 new dads into an M.R.I. machine:
once between the first two to four weeks of their
baby's life, and again between 12 and 16 weeks.
Dr. Kim found brain changes that mirrored those
previously seen in new moms: Certain areas
within parts of the brain linked to attachment,
nurturing, empathy and the ability to interpret and react appropriately to a baby's behavior had more gray and white matter between 12 and 16 weeks than they did between two and four weeks."
- Dr Anna Machin, evolutionary anthropologist.

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02/19/2025

02/10/2025

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02/01/2025

Have you heard this before? It's sooooo true. Essentially if our jaw is relaxed then our pelvic muscles are relaxed too. So if we are wanting to allow space to give birth then a clenched jaw is NOT helpful. This is also really important to know as it affects trying to have a poo - now any pregnant woman will tell you that constipation in the last trimester is REAL. To help this, when on the loo see if you can relax your jaw and your shoulders and just focus on breathing down.

To check if your jaw is relaxed, see if you can release your tongue from the roof of your mouth, and allow a little separation of the teeth, another good idea is to check in to see if you can release your shoulders at the same time.

07/03/2024

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07/03/2024

Reclined pushing carries more risks than upright positions - not limited to potential for damage to the perineum and deoxygenation of the baby. ☹️ But let’s also note that there is a HUGE difference between someone choosing that position and someone being told that’s their only option (hint: it’s not!).

What are some other options (that can also improve too!)?
🤰🏼 side-lying
🫃🏽 kneeling
🫄🏻kneeling lunge
🤰🏿semi-squat
🫃🏻backwards on the stool (yes! That’s one of my faves!)

Talk with your provider in advance about your desire to
🧚🏼‍♀️ change position often even while and regardless of whether your is unmedicated or with an ( has a lot more about that!)
🧚🏼 practice how you will advocate for your desired pushing positions while (including how people will help with that!)
🧚🏿‍♂️ become familiar with different pushing positions by practicing them in to create muscle memory and figure out how your positions fit within your individual comfort and mobility

06/09/2024

Baby working hard 💜