Kinsley Birth Services

01/14/2024

Wow! Just wow!

12/18/2023

✨🤎 Skin to Skin ~ Sometimes we can forget the HUGE BENEFITS of something which can seem like such simple act! By 🤎✨

12/05/2022

Doulas help make birth better! ♥️

They nurture, support and offer expert guidance for families during their pregnancy, birth and the early postpartum time.

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09/09/2022

08/27/2022

This is cool!!!

❤This is such an incredible photo❤
Let me just explain what you are seeing..
This is a cervix that is dilated to about 6 cms, you can see baby's head (with some hair 😍)
This is so clear because the waters have broken but it is so amazing to see how a cervix looks at this stage.
Thank you to the mother who consented to this and for the photographer with such amazing skills - this allows us all to learn and to be informed 👏

Photo Credit Rayke

08/11/2022

It’s your choice!!!

Of course you can.
How silly that this isn’t already the standard.
It’s your body, your baby, your birth.

You decide who catches your baby.

07/04/2022

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Deep rest in the postpartum helps the body, mind and spirit recalibrate. So necessary! . . . . . . . . . . . . .

We are told we need to rest in the postpartum, but so many birthing people arent told WHY. And sometimes it's the WHY that makes the difference between deep rest & deep regret. ⁠⁠
⁠⁠The average diameter of a placenta is 22cm/8.6 inches. ⁠⁠
⁠⁠You could say that it's the size of a side dinner plate, an average watermelon🍉 paper plate or a soccer ball ⚽️ for reference. It's also the size of the average placenta that we have just grown for 9 months. ⁠⁠After we birth the placenta, we are left with a wound inside of our uterus where the placenta was attached. If we had this wound on the outside, say on our back or chest, EVERYONE would be telling us to rest & they would help us! Also, the placenta is an organ, that we just expelled from our body, if we had lost a kidney or an appendix, 40 days of recovering would be pretty minimal & probably unheard of. Our doctors and family would expect us to rest longer.... ⁠⁠The wound site from the placenta is one of the main reasons for postpartum bleeding/lochia 🩸We lose about 1/10 of our blood supply from this open wound! So whether you had a c-section birth or vaginal, everyone has this bleeding wound. ⁠⁠It takes on average 6 weeks for this wound to heal. And this is just an average, because it depends on how much we rest, the nourishment we receive from food and support. So mothers who receive less may take longer, & mothers who prepare & set themselves up may heal quicker. ⁠⁠The longer the wound site is left open, the higher risk we have for infection and hemorrhage, even if you had a safe vaginal delivery or zero complications from birth. But because this is an internal aka hidden healing part of the postpartum recovery we don't always take it seriously. And neither does our community. ⁠⁠
⁠⁠After birth we are hormonal, exhausted, emotionally vulnerable, learning to feed our baby AND our body is working hard to heal this huge wound. It's a lot. Do yourself a favor & REST & ask for help!
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06/19/2022

❤️Home Doppler Safety ~by ❤️

Please call your Midwife or Maternity unit if you have concerns with your baby. That’s what they are there for 🤲🏼

06/16/2022

Please be aware of this recall!

CPSC and Fisher-Price Warn Consumers About 13 Deaths in Fisher-Price Infant-to-Toddler and Newborn-to-Toddler Rockers: Advise Rockers Should Never Be Used for Sleep