Birth Your Way Columbus

04/09/2025

⚠️Unpopular opinion⚠️
Midwives, YOU ARE NOT DOULAS!
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Midwives assess the big picture, the (w)holistic perspective, the environment, the ebbs and flows of energy within every body in the room, the readiness of equipment and tools, the status of the waters, all of the moving parts and more. Midwives are aware of the intricacy of the fetal heart tones over time, around baselines and in relation to the contraction pattern.
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Midwives are a lifeguard in this ocean of birth. If you are too close to the swimmer, you cannot see what is a mile out or if they are swimming towards a rip current.
The birthers comfort can never consume your focus like it does for a doula. (So make sure your client gets a doula!)
This may take new midwives time to achieve, but our advanced practice fetal heart tones course can help you get started.
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What was the moment that you realized midwives are not doulas in your practice?

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03/21/2025

5 things you need to know if you’re planning to wing it through childbirth.

I hope you'll join me at the end of March for a great discussion.

03/20/2025

02/10/2025

DM me, check out my website, schedule a call. These are all great ways to start the conversation around weather or not I’ll fit in your birth space!

What questions do you have that you think others might also have? Comment below.

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11/19/2024

The graphic shows my birth availability for doula services! I offer in depth birth preparation packages down to the bare bones support. There’s a package for everyone! 🤰

Birth doula support is appropriate for all types of births! Unmedicated, unmessed with, induction, epidural, even C-section! Home or hospital (maybe birth center soon?!) 👶🏼

My job is to help you aquire the information you need to make the right choices for you! Depending on the package you choose, I’ll also be helping you prepare for the type of birth you’re after. 📚

I also provide postpartum care to my birth doula families, so that you can have continuity of care ❤️

Learn more and schedule a call here https://www.birthyourwayservices.com/birth-doula.html

11/02/2024

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~ Artist - becoming minimalist ~

11/01/2024

This right here!! Support during the postpartum is essential and don’t get the idea that it should come only from the partner. Get everyone involved. It can be magic.

10/28/2024

It is so easy to get into your head regarding induction during the last weeks of pregnancy. What if I told you that one large study found that you might just have 2 more days!

They split up 1,801 pregnant people into induction at 41 weeks and expectant management with induction at 42 weeks of labor didn’t start by then.

They found that the expectant management group median difference in the time they were pregnant was 2 days!

This lines up with another study (Smith, 2001a), that found 50% of first time births happened spontaneously at 40 weeks and 5 days and 75% at 41 weeks and 2 days.

Those who had given birth at least once before went into spontaneous labor by 40 weeks and 3 days (50%) and 41 weeks (75%).

These studies have driven some countries to sift “due dates” to 41 weeks.

Personally, I encourage everyone I work with to consider 42 weeks their due date (unless they want to go past that) and that way no matter when their baby comes, they are early! Yay! 🤣🤣🤣 it’s part mind game and part knowing what your own threshold for risk is.

I work with all of my clients, to the extent they desire, to help them come to a choice on what that threshold is for them in regards to their specific situation so they are going into birth confident in their choices.

If you’d like to learn more about working with me as a doula, DM me or find my link in my profile. I’d love to chat.

10/22/2024

The children products giant Fisher-Price announced on Thursday it was recalling more than 2 million of its infant Snuga Swings due to a suffocation hazard.

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10/05/2024

Here’s what you can control during your birth:

🧘‍♂️ Your body’s position
🧠 Your mindset
📄 Your plan

🧘‍♂️ You’re body’s position can reduce pain, give your baby space to get into the ideal position for labor and birth and help birth to take less time. Starting movements during pregnancy helps to prepare your body and can decrease pain and the amount of time you’re in labor even more! I have 15 videos that I send my birth doula families to help them prepare and I’m now offering them to the public! Comment videos to get the link in your DMs.

🧠 Your mindset is everything! If you’ve read this far you’re already winning. You know that you are an active participant in your pregnancy and birth. Knowing how to be open to receive is the next bit. When we think of this usually we’re talking about receiving a compliment or help, but this applies to birth more than anything. Holding onto the courage and strength it takes to physically and emotionally open for your baby to be born is the ultimate expression of being open surrender. Meditation can be a lovely way to practice this. (Psst, there are meditations in the videos I’m offering). Comment videos to get the link in your DMs.

📄 Having a plan is NOT about trying to control every aspect of birth. It IS about knowing your options and what your ideal looks like. It is also knowing what options are no longer optional if you choose any type of intervention. I help people work through their birth plan and I put together an attractive one page document to give to their provider and any birth support people they have so that everyone is on the same page.

When it comes down to it, you control the things you can and let everything else go. You don’t need to carry that!