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Birth Wisdom with Rosalia

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Helsinki
Birth Wisdom with Rosalia

Sharing and rejoicing in the ancient wisdom that every person carries within them. Offering support Birthing From Within Mentoring.

Birth services include: Pregnancy, birth and postpartum doula. Sacred Pregnancy Facilitation, Birth journey and Belly Binding. Reiki hearing and therapeutic massage.

05/11/2024

A doula is not for everyone but everyone that wants a doula should be able to have one.

The sad reality is that many people still struggle to have access to a doula.

Whether the reasons are financial, location or hospital policy, we need to work together to normalise pregnancy, birth and postpartum care.

Society is a real bag of mixed nuts. We expect everyone to turn into sudden experts and be self-sufficient in all things.

This is wrong. Society means fundamentally being together, in comune. We are supposed to rely on others and them on us. Each individual should excel in their passion and benefit from the skills the passion of others bring to the group.

My skill, my passion makes me particularly adept at preparing people to face birth head on.

What’s your skill and passion?

05/11/2024

As a doula I am present to hold space in the pregnancy as well as during the birth.

This “holding space” is different from client to client. The reason for this is my relationship is different from one person to the next.

I read a word recently from a wonderful doula friend that fully describes what I actively do. This word ‘meraki’ that modern Greeks often use to describe doing something with soul, creativity, or love — means to put “something of yourself” into what you’re doing, whatever it may be.

I leave a piece of me here and there with all my clients. Holding space means I hold you, no matter what is happening, how it’s unfolding and who you might be.
I hold all of you with all of myself and leave you with a bit of me as I carry a bit of you with me. ♥️

05/11/2024

Posted • Birth Wisdom was born from my deepest desire to help pregnant people discover their own birthing wisdom from deep within them.

I may have some birth wisdom to share but it is that intrinsic knowledge that the human body carries within itself that I want to help access.

I believe in the power of the pregnant body. I work with my clients so that they too come to this belief and when they see this in their own births, the wonder and awe carries them through a lifetime.

That’s what I want for you. ♥️

15/10/2024

Today I light a candle for those little ones that left us too soon.

Every year I honour Pregnancy and Infancy loss remembrance day, for my unborn babies and those of others.
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Join me in a moment of silence to remember.

♥️🙏🏻♥️

09/10/2024

This Saturday The Nest Doulas will be offering our free Positive Birth Helsinki meet up from 10-12 and our meet and greet the doulas from 12-14 at Lilla Luckan. We will be talking about Caesarean births and Induction of Labour and what you need to know about your rights and options. We will share the important info you need to know to help avoid these possibilities and how to make the most should these be necessary. Our aim is to empower you with options, info and choices that help you have the most positive experience possible. Sign up here: https://mailchi.mp/648e302327d5/positivebirth See you there 🥰

09/10/2024

I believe that giving birth is one of the greatest things a person can do in their life. This is a rite of passage. It is a journey you undertake that shapes you, moulds you and irrevocably changes you. Whether you hear the call or found yourself pushed into it, the journey unfolds around you and you can either get ready for it or go in unprepared. Conscious preparation can be scary for some. It means noticing what you need not what others tell you you need. It means trusting in yourself rather than in technology. It means showing up and doing what you can instead of expecting someone else to do it for you. If you’re looking for someone to walk along side you as you consciously prepare to meet your baby, give me a call. I have very limited space between now and next May. Nov - fully booked. Dec - 1 spot available. Jan - 1 spot available. Feb - fully booked. Mar - 2-3 spots available. Apr - 2 spots available May -1 spot available. Book early to avoid disappointment! 🤍

09/10/2024

If you’ve been told not to drink herbal teas, here’s the other side of the coin!⠀In general, herbal teas are safe, and most often beneficial during pregnancy, as long as you don’t exceed recommended doses. There are some herbal teas to avoid too of course.⠀Herbal teas hydrate, provide easily assimilated nutrients, and are packed with antioxidants and vitamin C, which helps lower your anxiety and stress levels.⠀Here’s a pregnancy-safe tea list:⠀ #1: Ginger tea - Helps ease nausea, aids digestion, and relieves stomach issues. It is a warming and circulatory stimulant, and a great source of zinc.⠀ #2: Nettle leaf tea - A nutritive tea to sip, especially as you near the end of your pregnancy. It provides high levels of water-soluble iron, magnesium, and calcium.⠀ #3: Raspberry leaf tea - Helps prepare the uterus for labour due to its rich mineral content. Also helps prevent post-partum hemorrhage due to its astringent effect. It’s a galactagogue, so supports breast milk production. Rich in calcium, magnesium, and iron. Raspberry leaf tea is safe to drink from the second trimester onwards.⠀ #4: Dandelion leaf tea - Offers support in late pregnancy to ease fluid retention due to it’s gentle diuretic effect. It is high in potassium and also considered to be a kidney tonic and a digestive.⠀ #5: Spearmint and peppermint tea - These are great for relaxing your stomach muscles and settling an upset stomach. These mint teas also help with nausea and vomiting, common in early pregnancy.⠀ #6: Rooibos tea - This is the best tea for pregnancy and plus for die-hard coffee drinkers. Its taste is most similar to traditional black tea. It is caffeine-free, contains calcium, magnesium, and loads of antioxidants. It also has positive effects on digestion and can ease colic and reflux.⠀ #7 Alfalfa leaf tea - Great for increasing energy and stamina especially in preparation for birth. It is full of trace minerals such as chlorophyll, Vitamin K and protein. Also helps to decrease postpartum haemorrhaging.⠀If you are at all unsure please speak to your naturopath, herbalist or doctor about which other teas are safe to drink during pregnancy.⠀What tea is your favourite in pregnancy?

26/09/2024

Some 8 years ago I was invited to give a talk at the 30th year celebration of
The topic I chose was birth activism. This is a slide from my presentation given to a hall full of midwives and doulas.

After my talk several people approached me to talk and ask questions about this, and even days later people reached out to me.

The concept of doing something that was not part of the system was so foreign to so many. Finding out that they had a voice that could be used to make change was something new.

When asked how can one person effect change in such a big machine, I go back to this quote I made. The idea being if everyone does nothing, the nothing changes but if everyone does something, even one thing, then change happens.

So my motto is to be the change I want to see in the world. Right now I want to see change for birthing families, for midwives working and for doulas.

To do this I think we all need to meet. Are you in?

25/09/2024

What will it take...
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-To motivate you to step up to for change that may not benefit you directly but could benefit someone you love or care about?
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-To get you involved in doing the right thing to elevate the voice of the unheard, the downtrodden, the marginalised, the minority?
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-To speak out and join your voice to amplify the call for help that people in need are making?
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I wasn’t always a birth activist, but along the way I became one! For you!
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It wasn’t a choice really but a necessity. I couldn’t stay quiet whilst I watched injustice.
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And I cannot stay quiet now whilst injustice is running rampant in our hospitals!
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Birthing people’s rights are being sidelined! They are shouting out for attention but they are not being heard.
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We all have a stake in this, you see. It could be you, or your spouse, your life partner, your child, anyone of your family members that need to have their human rights upheld at some point.
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Don’t wait for that point. Let’s make sure that human rights in childbirth are maintained and not lost. Because right now they are being trampled on. Deciding to centralise maternity care to save money is not about what is best for birthing families.

If Finland wants people to have children, then create an atmosphere that invites people to birth with dignity. Give options and choices and respect them!
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So what will it take for you to add your voice to mine?
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23/09/2024

Calling all interested midwives, doulas and parents wanting to make a diifference:

We know the important people at HUS are shutting down Lohja hospital. They cite financial cutbacks.

It is sad to see how the wellbeing of mother, babies, midwives and doctors affected by this decision made around a table, littered with graphs and numbers, are not relevant and totally sidelined. This also means people will need to travel much further for births. This is going to increase safety and birth satisfaction, clearly 🤥

Lohja is considered one of the best hospitals in Finland, that promotes physiological birth, has a mother baby friendly status and above all else continues to practice, for the most part, informed consent with clients.

This shining beacon is being closed in favour of creating the biggest hospital in the Nordic countries. This is laughable when we have no need for such grandeur.

Bigger is not better. Smaller, more intimate and familiar is safer when it comes to births. But then, of course the people making the decisions here do not have a true understanding of the basic physiology of birth. They probably have never seen it. Furthermore the subject of decision, a labouring mother is seen only as an object to hurry through the birth process, efficiently and as cheaply as possible.

What could possibly go wrong???🙄

My clients that choose to travel to Lohja hospital do so because they want as close to physiological birth as possible. Many times I leave a birth knowing full well that had they been anywhere else in the capital region, they would have had a completely different outcome. One they wouldn’t feel so good about.

Now is one of those times I wish my new countrymen were more like my Italian counterparts and march in solidarity and protest vocally and visually to this injustice being carried out right now.

Anyone feeling Italian enough to join me?

21/09/2024

Client review:

It has been nearly eight months since I gave birth to my son. As a first-time mum, I now realize that the story of that birth will accompany me forever, and I will remember each and every detail. I am SO grateful that Rosalia made that story one I want to revisit frequently. You can’t plan a birth, but Rosalia made it possible for me to be ready to make informed decisions. During our pre-birth planning meetings, she helped my partner and me navigate the Finnish health system, and she provided the space for us to discuss what kind of birth we envisioned. Rosalia is a fountain of knowledge from nutrition to birth preparation exercises, to natural birth options. From the moment my waters broke, we had her support. She was there constantly reassuring my partner, and her presence was what I needed to feel safe and be able to stop thinking and focus on my instincts. As my partner often repeats: “Having Rosalia was the best decision we could have ever made.” -Aina Brias

21/09/2024

Diary of a wandering doula
Lohja hospital
13.9.2024
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Birth sometimes gets a helping hand from alternative therapies and this labour started after a good acupuncture session. Mild, irregular contractions to start with but then a gush of fluid and over a fee hours, stronger, longer and more intense contractions followed.
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Things seemed to go from not much to too much so we all decided to go into the hospital because there was a longer drive to get there.
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A few giggles as we weaved our way in the road to the right car and soon a very concentrated dad was driving us calmly towards the hospital.
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Car rides in labour can be intense but this mama was determined to get to the further away hospital, so she put all her awareness and effort into breathing through her contractions. Some additional pep talk about managing with each contraction, we drove up to the clinic.
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Mom breathing deeply and dad remaining near her, calm and loving, we discovered it was already time to have this little one. Now we just needed to settle into the space and find what worked.
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Dad was always nearby, breathing, touching and watching every move and being attentive. Mom moved and followed her body.
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Some babies have a clear idea of when they want to be born and all our efforts may feel in vain, but eventually things do line up together and baby and mom are working together.
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Even when it felt like nothing was happening, there was progress. Reminding mom and dad that all were well and there was nothing to worry about, helped keep these new parents to be focused on doing what needed doing.
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A gentle redirection to place mama’s own hand on her baby’s head, helped her birth her baby into her own hands. An intense night was over with happy and joyful yet relieved tears falling from everyone’s eyes.
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The entire birth team believed in this mama and she believe too so she did it. I am once again humbled and awed by the strength and determination I witness in my clients. This birth was no different.
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Birth services include: Pregnancy, birth and postpartum doula. Sacred Pregnancy Facilitation, Birth journey and Belly Binding. Birthing From Within Mentoring. Reiki healing and therapeutic massage.