The Passionate Doula

10/03/2025

Amazing!!! https://www.facebook.com/share/1FLuSECkv1/?mibextid=wwXIfr

We’re excited to share the findings of a new report published in the European Journal of Midwifery on the Spinning Babies® approach and its role in promoting fetal head rotation during labor.

Key Findings:
✅ Women whose babies began labor in occiput-posterior or occiput-transverse positions, 93.3% of those who used Spinning Babies® techniques experienced rotation to the anterior position by delivery.

💡In contrast, only 63.6% of women in the control group (who did not use Spinning Babies®) saw that rotation.

✅ Use of Spinning Babies® was associated with a 45% increased likelihood of achieving anterior positioning (RR = 1.45; 95% CI: 1.23–1.72), after adjustment for parity and analgesia.

What does this mean?
While the study is retrospective and further research is needed, these results suggest that Spinning Babies® techniques may help support more optimal fetal positioning during labor, potentially making the birthing process smoother for many women. 🫶

We’re thrilled to see clinicians and researchers beginning to examine what many of us in the birth-work community have long observed. ❤️

Read the full report at https://f.mtr.cool/txpuhaopbz

09/10/2025

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In a harrowing account, Tanya Bender shares the life-altering consequences of turning a toddler's car seat forward-facing too soon. Her granddaughter, Aniyah, was just 2 years old when a car accident left her with catastrophic injuries. Despite the seat being correctly installed and in compliance with the law, Aniyah suffered an internal decapitation at her C1 vertebra, leading to partial paralysis. Tanya's message is clear: rear-facing seats offer the best protection for young children. She urges parents to keep their children rear-facing as long as possible, emphasizing that the minimum age requirement doesn't necessarily equate to the safest choice.
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05/31/2025

Amazing!!

At 43 and just 6 months postpartum, Canadian human rights lawyer Stephanie Case won the Ultra-Trail Snowdonia 100K. See how she's challenging the narrow expectations placed on new moms here.

05/16/2025

Do you have a car seat question?
Did you know that I have helped install hundreds of car seats and very rarely are they installed correctly. There’s a lot to know! Let me help you! I offer a car seat course, guided installation and certified inspection!

08/08/2024

On this day that ends World Breastfeeding Week, and every other day, thank you to all the mammas for giving of your bodies to not only nourish their babies tummies, but their souls as well with your unconditional love xoxoxo

I see you. I understand you. I am you! You are amazing and I support you 100%

Much love and admiration - Cris xo 😘

08/03/2024

Your breastmilk is all your baby needs even when it is hot outside 🌞 Breastmilk is made up of foremilk and hindmilk. The foremilk is high in water to hydrate your baby even on the hottest days! 🥵

Never give a baby water as it will dilute their much needed calories. This goes for formula fed babies as well.

08/01/2024

The Passionate Doula celebrates World Breastfeeding week! Save 20% off my breastfeeding course or 20% off a postpartum visit! Book now and save until the end of August 🥰

05/14/2024

“Undoubtedly our best decision. We couldn’t be happier having gone through Cris’ birthing classes. There is something so empowering and calming about knowing what is happening during labour. If you’re like me and love feeling prepared, these classes are for you. We left so confident and ready to have an amazing experience bringing our baby into the world. My husband would joke that if he had to deliver the baby he felt like he could do it! Breastfeeding was something I held close to my heart and really wanted to accomplish, with Cris’ guidance and confidence, I always knew I’d get there. She is such an amazing teacher, and now she’s stuck with me forever.”

05/12/2024

Had an absolutely wonderful Mother’s Day! Happy happy Mother’s Day to all of my friends and family 🥰❤️ special thank you to my husband and my wonderful children. I love being a mom 💕💐❤️

04/24/2024

Always always always ❤️

Go to the crying child. The wrong coloured pencil, the sand in their shoe, the book that they didn’t want to read - it’s all a big deal to them.

Think about the life experiences they’ve had. They haven’t experienced what we have and therefore have no frame of reference for how big their problem objectively is (or from an adult’s point of view).

Children under 7 are also still in the egocentric stage of development, where everything is all about them.

Plus, their prefrontal cortex isn’t anywhere near as developed as an adult’s, meaning they don’t have the ability to regulate themselves, or are only just beginning to learn this.

Dismissing their feelings (e.g. “you get what you get and you don’t get upset”…) or leaving them to deal with their emotions on their own can stay with them. If it happens consistently without a caregiver acknowledging or repairing afterwards, it can be stored in their brain and body along with other similar experiences (in their implicit memory), and contribute to their core beliefs (schemas), perceptions, and assumptions about the world as they grow up.

Meeting a child’s feelings with shame, ridicule or punishment also puts their nervous system under stress and their brain in a more reactive state, meaning they will remain in a heightened state and be more likely to become upset or triggered again.

There is just too much research and evidence behind this for it to be ignored.⠀
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If a child is upset, go to them.

And as always - parents, teachers, anyone caring for children - we don’t have to get it right 100% of the time. We just have to be good enough. We’re all still learning and doing the best we can with the resources we have.

04/02/2024

In case you didn’t know, children up until the age of 9 must be in a car seat in Quebec and atleast 8 in Ontario. However, a child fitting safely in a car without a car seat is the most important thing after this age. Most children aren’t ready until the age of 12!

There’s a lot to know about car seats and what is considered safe. Please reach out and I would be more than happy to help with all your car seat questions and concerns and installations 🥰

03/25/2024

Sharing this again because it is so important ❤️❤️❤️

I think as parents we have to remember that no one does poorly on purpose. No child or adult wakes up and thinks to themselves “I hope today will be a bad day and I hope I make everyone and myself miserable today”

This Ted talk changed my whole life 6 years ago and helped me look at things differently so I could reconnect with my son when he needed me most.

I thought my job was to discipline with consequences and when that wasn’t working and just made everyone feel bad and disconnected, this video changed everything for me!

I hope it does the same for you 🥰

Consequences don’t motivate a person- love, encouragement and support does ❤️

Note: In this video, Dr. Stuart Ablon, Director of the Think:Kids program in the Department of Psychiatry at MGH, describes the general tenets of a model of ...