Emerald Perinatal, Certified Birth Doula, Childbirth and Lactation Educator

03/18/2025

This is a hospital, not a birthing centre, so they do take higher risk client.

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03/12/2025

The Postdates and Postmaturity Handbook is the midwife’s guide to preventing and understanding the risks and myths associated with postdates pregnancies and postmaturity syndrome. Spend at least $50 before shipping and handling and save $3 on this book. Just enter code Save3 when you check out. Cl...

01/07/2025

I really like this method. I often get calls from clients not sure if their waters have broken. This answer is great!

01/02/2025

Island Health's first baby also arrived at 12:07 a.m. PT. Baby boy Zion Ebo Zormelo-Kika was born at Victoria General Hospital, weighing in at eight pounds three ounces. Thank you Midwife Lauren!

01/01/2024

Happy New Year everyone! Wonder who the first baby in 2024 will be this year.

12/31/2023

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a fairly common mental health problem that can affect men and women at any time of life (Young 2019). It is called perinatal OCD when a woman develops OCD during pregnancy or after birth—the perinatal period. Perinatal OCD affects at least 2 in every 100 wome...

12/31/2023

A new midwife of color tells about some challenges she faced in her journal through midwifery school and how her first year as a midwife is now bearing fruit.

12/31/2023

Happy holidays to everyone.

07/18/2023

07/03/2023

“When pregnant, the cells of the baby migrate into the mothers bloodstream and then circle back into the baby, it’s called “fetal-maternal microchimerism”.⁠

For 41 weeks, the cells circulate and merge backwards and forwards, and after the baby is born, many of these cells stay in the mother’s body, leaving a permanent imprint in the mothers tissues, bones, brain, and skin, and often stay there for decades. Every single child a mother has afterwards will leave a similar imprint on her body, too.

Even if a pregnancy doesn't go to full term or if you have an abortion, these cells still migrate into your bloodstream.

Research has shown that if a mother's heart is injured, fetal cells will rush to the site of the injury and change into different types of cells that specialize in mending the heart.

The baby helps repair the mother, while the mother builds the baby.

How cool is that?

This is often why certain illnesses vanish while pregnant.

It’s incredible how mothers bodies protect the baby at all costs, and the baby protects & rebuilds the mother back - so that the baby can develop safely and survive.

Think about crazy cravings for a moment. What was the mother deficient in that the baby made them crave?

Studies have also shown cells from a fetus in a mothers brain 18 years after she gave birth. How amazing is that?”

If you’re a mom you know how you can intuitively feel your child even when they are not there….Well, now there is scientific proof that moms carry them for years and years even after they have given birth to them.

I find this to be so very beautiful.

02/25/2023

Lol

Some serious multitasking! 😅

11/19/2022

This looks great!

Improve your practice! Attend online classes with Gail Hart!

Posterior Presentation will start at 10 am PST December 3. Gail will discuss the importance of positioning, maternal sense of control, and flexibility to approaches. Discover how to help prevent cesareans by understanding how to prevent and fix posterior presentations.

Neonatal Resuscitation with the Placental Circulation Intact will start at 10 am PST December 10. In this class Gail will present the concept of safe and effective physiological resuscitation methods that don’t require a high level of technology for implementation.
Go here to see all upcoming classes and to sign up. https://www.midwiferytoday.com/product-category/online-classes/