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03/12/2022

Lilli is cooking dinner the first time and she has her Apron and everything!! 😁😊❤️👩🏼‍🍳

03/11/2022

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10/13/2020

Yep pretty much sums it up! Our goal is to SUPPORT a woman thru the pregnancy, labour, and birth process not MANAGE her! If needed we are there as a safety net to step in but this is not our default.

09/11/2020

This is how I was trained. I was trained right!

Original post, Lorena TheDoula A Natural Minded Mama

09/11/2020

A nice info graphic from our friend and colleague, Anna Brauch, IBCLC.

09/10/2020

Great info! Keep nursing!

AMAZING!!!!😍

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09/01/2020

Please think about this and the many, many other people who've been told the same thing. Ultrasounds are wildly inaccurate estimating the weight of your baby! Dont let this be the reason you opt for major abdominal surgery over a vaginal delivery!

03/12/2020

During pregnancy we feel fiercely protective of our health and especially responsible for everything we do and expose ourselves - and baby - to. If you’re pregnant, naturally, you’re concerned about COVID-19 for your own health and your baby’s. Who wouldn’t be? We’re inundated with overwhe...

02/11/2020

Pitocin is a tool.

We don’t use a hammer to screw in a screw or a saw to hammer in a nail.

So, let’s use Pitocin for its intended purpose and only after informed consent.

There are alternatives!! Ask me about Hypnobabies today!

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02/06/2020

Do you know the benefits for both mother and baby by having an undisturbed first hour after birth? Here are 7 massive benefits worth considering.

01/21/2020

Please carefully check how you're child is clipped in to their seat!

Good to know.

12/11/2019

ANN ARBOR—A new study found that water births are no more risky than land births, and that women in the water group sustain fewer first and second-degree tears. University of Michigan researchers analyzed 397 waterbirths and 2025 land births from two midwifery practices. There were no differences

12/07/2019

Listen to your baby's cues. Let them be your guide!

Some how, some where, new mothers got the message that the gap between when a baby stops a breastfeed and the time they start to need another one matters a very very great deal. 24 hours a day. It...

12/06/2019

One of the best authors in the Birth world!

As a medical student I had at most, an hour of training on obtaining informed consent and only for medical procedures - not medication use. That consisted of making sure you read a patient the risks of a procedure and had them sign the form confirming this. It did not include actually explaining the risks - just reading a list of them to someone who was feeling unwell and vulnerable, but at the same time, influencing them by telling them how much they need the procedure. The implications of the risks tended to be minimized, rather than personalized - as in this is what this could really mean for you if this horrible thing happens. No breadth of alternatives were given.⁠
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In the clinic, pharmaceuticals, invasive tests, and procedures were usually afforded much less informed consent time - if any. Usually a prescription is just written, it's assumed the patient will take it, and no risks are communicated. ⁠
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Comments like "I'm just going to do a little snip because I don't like your baby's heartbeat" (l heard that one not too long ago; I stopped the OB from doing it; baby was born 30 seconds later, no problems), the vaginal exam someone went to do without even waking a sleeping mother (that person got stopped in their tracks, too!); the medication put in the IV without the patient being told....ALL NOT OKAY. ⁠
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EVERY exam, EVERY procedure, EVERY medication REQUIRES your INFORMED consent (unless a dire emergency or you're medically unable to give consent, like you're unconscious, or delirious and it's a lifesaving intervention). That means you get to ask questions until you understand AND you can SAY NO. Or I'd like to think about that. Consent doesn't just mean someone reads a list of possible risks or tells you it's needed. It's a full explanation of RISKS and ALTERNATIVES. AND what happens if you say no or wait.⁠
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Yet this is not happening!Let's take hysterectomy, for example: AT LEAST 20% are considered medically entirely unnecessary, and only 30% of women advised to have a hysterectomy, of a study of over 5,000 women, were informed of non-surgical alternatives by their doctor. Women in their 30s were the least likely to be informed!

12/05/2019

11/22/2019

Amazing visual of what Midwives bring to every home birth!! Great pic Family Midwifery Care of Guelph!

11/22/2019

Have you or do you plan to delay cord clamping at birth?

See link for more details https://newbornbaby.com.au/birth-category-page/delayed-cord-clamping/

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