Tranquil Baby Doula

03/23/2023

This is such an important concept for laboring people to understand. There is no one right way to dilate in labor!

03/22/2023

Here’s to all the amazing doulas caring for birthing people and their families 💗

03/10/2023

This is why I promote delayed cord clamping!

03/08/2023

Such an amazing woman who’s forever changed the birth world…for the better!

03/07/2023

I was fortunate to get to take Ann Gilligan’s training last week…Gilligan’s Guide for Optimal Fetal Positioning. I learned SO many new techniques and tools for helping those malpositioned babies find their way through the pelvis!

Gilligan’s Guide Gilligan’s Guide is an algorithm (a graphic chart that is easy to follow) which assists the pregnant person’s body to rotate their unborn infant into the optimal or best position for birth. We refer to this as “Maternal Positioning for Optimal Fetal Positioning”. It is saf...

03/06/2023

Exactly ❤️

03/03/2023

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“No matter how many baby sleep ‘experts’ make the claim; wanting to be held to sleep, wanting to be worn for naps, wanting to feed to sleep - these aren't behavioural problems.
They aren't ‘habits, be they bad or good.
✨They are the expectations of our species.

🐒We would never say that a monkey has bad habits for staying with his mum night and day, feeding on demand for years.
🦘We would never claim a kangaroo joey needing to exterogestate in their mother's pouch for months after birth was a behavioural problem.
🦍We would never claim that a baby gorilla needs to be separated from its mother for 12 hours a day to learn independence.

Yet when it comes to human babies, we dismiss our species-specific needs and biological expectations, labelling them as simply behaviourally driven faults that must be squashed, and a whole industry has sprung up around convincing vulnerable new parents that doing so is not only possible, but necessary for their child's wellbeing.”
✨Professor James McKenna

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03/03/2023

Important information about delayed cord clamping after a c-section!

This study reports that delaying cord clamping in cesarean deliveries of very low birthweight infants increased their iron level—a critical factor for these preemies—without increasing blood loss in their mothers.

https://bit.ly/3RnGmNE

02/25/2023

Important information about “baby blues” postpartum.

02/21/2023

If your body can grow an entire human in 40 weeks, it’s not suddenly going to forget what to do the last week or two of pregnancy!

02/20/2023

So excited to read this book about inductions! In Your Own Time: How western medicine controls the start of labour and why this needs to stop

Pregnant women and maternity services are facing an induction epidemic. As medical guidelines include more “at risk” categories, women and our already overwhelmed and under resourced maternity systems are increasingly pressured to induce birth before labour begins spontaneously. Women are deemed...