Lisa Doula birth-roots

15/11/2021

Thank you Birthrights for sending this out to Welsh Government, if Aneurin Bevan can ease their visiting restrictions, then so can the others.

AND can we demand that the condition of having a vaginal examination to assess whether one is in ‘established’ labour, as a prerequisite to being able to have a birth partner by your side, is stopped .. what about all those that ordinarily would choose NOT to have this as part of their labour journey

Birthrights has written to the Welsh Government alongside a number of other organisations to express our concerns on the current visiting restrictions in maternity services.

Please find the press release here: https://www.birthrights.org.uk/2021/11/15/alliance-urge-welsh-government-to-rethink-guidance-on-visiting-restrictions-in-maternity-services/

If you are affected by visiting restrictions in maternity services in Wales do contact us on advice@birthrights.org.uk

You can find all our FAQs about coronavirus and maternity care here: https://www.birthrights.org.uk/campaigns-research/coronavirus/

But Not Maternity Birth Trauma Association - UK Doula UK The q***r birth club Fatherhood Institute Perinatal Mental Health Support AIMS Make Birth Better Pregnant Then Screwed

08/11/2021

Can always count on Sara Wickham for speaking the unspoken 🙏🏼

I’m delighted to announce the publication of my newest book:
In Your Own Time: How western medicine controls the start of labour and why this needs to stop.

Currently, more than a third of women in the UK have their labour induced, but the evidence for this is questionable.

I had already written one book about induction, but I realised we needed another.

I’ve been working in this area for more than two decades, and there’s more that people need to know.

Like the fact that there are numerous benefits to going into labour spontaneously.

That the evidence doesn’t really show what some obstetric organisations claim it does.

There’s also an important history here.
And I do mean “his” story, for the roots of the current situation lie in the patriarchal approach that our culture and western medicine has taken towards birth for the past two or three hundred years.

And whatever the new guidelines say, we know that induction is being offered for reasons that aren’t evidence-based.

Women and families need to know what the evidence really says about due dates, induction for suspected big babies, and for women who are older or larger than average.

And we need more understanding of why induction isn’t the answer to the higher perinatal mortality rates experienced by Black, Brown, Asian and mixed-race women, babies and families.

This information needs sharing, and that’s what I’ve done in this book.

It’s available now, and you can find out more at www.sarawickham.com/time

26/10/2021

My current offerings are Doula support for birth, antenatal sessions and preparation, 1-1 KG Hypnobirthing course, post partum support and placenta services 🧡

https://birthroots-uk.weebly.com/

02/10/2021

Your birthrights .. know them well as they are there to support you

02/10/2021

Shameful

Women who refuse advice from health service staff say they are being coerced with threats of referrals to agencies and police

05/09/2021

Many parallels with birth here .. bearing witness to the moments 🧡

✨Expected Death ~ When someone dies, the first thing to do is nothing. Don't run out and call the nurse. Don't pick up the phone. Take a deep breath and be present to the magnitude of the moment.

There's a grace to being at the bedside of someone you love as they make their transition out of this world. At the moment they take their last breath, there's an incredible sacredness in the space. The veil between the worlds opens.

We're so unprepared and untrained in how to deal with death that sometimes a kind of panic response kicks in. "They're dead!"

We knew they were going to die, so their being dead is not a surprise. It's not a problem to be solved. It's very sad, but it's not cause to panic.

If anything, their death is cause to take a deep breath, to stop, and be really present to what's happening. If you're at home, maybe put on the kettle and make a cup of tea.

Sit at the bedside and just be present to the experience in the room. What's happening for you? What might be happening for them? What other presences are here that might be supporting them on their way? Tune into all the beauty and magic.

Pausing gives your soul a chance to adjust, because no matter how prepared we are, a death is still a shock. If we kick right into "do" mode, and call 911, or call the hospice, we never get a chance to absorb the enormity of the event.

Give yourself five minutes or 10 minutes, or 15 minutes just to be. You'll never get that time back again if you don't take it now.

After that, do the smallest thing you can. Call the one person who needs to be called. Engage whatever systems need to be engaged, but engage them at the very most minimal level. Move really, really, really, slowly, because this is a period where it's easy for body and soul to get separated.

Our bodies can gallop forwards, but sometimes our souls haven't caught up. If you have an opportunity to be quiet and be present, take it. Accept and acclimatize and adjust to what's happening. Then, as the train starts rolling, and all the things that happen after a death kick in, you'll be better prepared.

You won't get a chance to catch your breath later on. You need to do it now.

Being present in the moments after death is an incredible gift to yourself, it's a gift to the people you're with, and it's a gift to the person who's just died. They're just a hair's breadth away. They're just starting their new journey in the world without a body. If you keep a calm space around their body, and in the room, they're launched in a more beautiful way. It's a service to both sides of the veil.

Credit for the beautiful words ~ Sarah Kerr, Ritual Healing Practitioner and Death Doula , Death doula
Her original video link is here ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7mG0ZAym0w

Beautiful art by Columbus Community Deathcare
Always With Love

09/07/2021

Made up a bengkung belly bind to send out this week, which is essentially a very long piece of cloth that is used for support and healing following birth .. the wrapping takes practice and is an act of self tending and care, becoming part of the post partum rituals 🧡

~ crediting Yema Mamas for their informative sharing

https://yemamamas.com/2017/09/11/bengkung-belly-binding/

08/07/2021

06/07/2021

Just published…

https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n1711

05/07/2021

Sign, share, email .. deadline is tomorrow, please add your voice

'𝘽𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙖 𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙮. 𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗺'
~ Abuela Doula