Morning Star Woman- Birth Doula Services

04/07/2023

Easter bunny came early !!! Happy Easter from my family to yours

04/07/2023

Easter bunny showed up early !

04/07/2023

Children should be supported to be in the birth space in a way they feel they are safe to be in🥰

04/07/2023

Just a little fact bomb 💥💣💥

04/07/2023

Olivia Poole was raised on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. She was inspired by the traditional practice of using a bouncing cradleboard to soothe babies. In 1957, she patented her invention of the baby jumper, under the name Jolly Jumper, making her one of the first Indigenous women in Canada to patent and profit from an invention.
Susan Olivia Davis Poole
born: April 18,1889, Devils Lake, North Dakota
died: October 10,1975 in Ganges, BC.

04/07/2023

03/11/2023

Happiest of Birthdays to The One and Only!🌷You are so loved. -Sarah

10/10/2022

09/09/2022

In light of her passing, this is a lovely piece of history about her birth choices.

Queen Elizabeth after her fourth Homebirth

Her Majesty was the first royal woman to have her husband accompany her at childbirth when she welcomed her fourth child Prince Edward with Prince Philip present.
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"The Queen, by then aged 37, had asked him to be there; she'd been keenly reading women's magazines that stressed the importance of involving fathers in childbirth and had become fascinated by the idea. Thus Philip became the first royal father in modern history to witness the birth of his child.”
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Like her mother, the Queen gave birth to her first child, Prince Charles, at home via caesarean, after a 30 hour labor, but went on to have three VBACs although with scopolamine.
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Eventually Charles was born by a Caesarean section in a music room in Buckingham Palace which had been converted into a theatre. She was attended by Obstetricians Sir William Gilliatt and Sir John Peel, and also midwife Helen Rowe, who was thought to be present for all the births. Caesarean sections were also less common in the general public at that time; in the 1950s only around 3% were caesarean section. It would have been of some concern that the Queen required one.
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The midwife Helen Rowe was known to be present as letters written to her by the Queen were discovered after her death. There is an irony in this as, in 1970, Sir John Peel, the queen’s obstetrician, was lead author of the report “Domiciliary midwifery and maternity bed needs”, which recommended 100% of births should be in a hospital.
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There have been considerable changes that have taken place in maternity services since the births of the Queen’s children. The accessibility of research and information is only one thing! The Queen, in all her experiences as a woman and mother in the role, has paved the way for royal births to be different and opened the door for many of her subjects to challenge the status quo at the time. The importance of looking back in history to see how we have got to where we are should not be overlooked and I challenge others to investigate history of our profession over the past 70 years.
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08/24/2022

As most students prepare for another year of school, we remember the Boarding School era for Native Americans which ran approximately from the 1860’s to the 1960’s. Many of those students who attended Boarding School still suffer as adults from the treatment they received through anxiety and depression. Many Native students today have a negative attitude toward school because of the stories they have heard from their grandparents. Burn some sage and send prayers for all children starting school in the next few weeks