The Rooted Womb

01/09/2026

• “Did your body really grow a baby too big, or were you given an arbitrary due date and rushed into an unnecessary induction?”

• “Did your baby actually ‘fail to engage,’ or were you told to birth on your back, closing your pelvic outlet by 30%?”

• “Did your contractions become too painful to handle, or were you denied food and water, draining your energy and endurance?”

• “Did you actually need Pitocin, or was your labor progressing just fine until someone told you it was ‘taking too long’?”

• “Did your baby really go into distress on their own, or did artificial oxytocin overstimulate your uterus, cutting off their oxygen supply?”

• “Did your water ‘fail to break,’ or was it protecting your baby until the perfect moment, only to be artificially ruptured and start the clock on intervention?”

• “Did you truly need an episiotomy, or was your body stretching slowly and perfectly until someone decided to take scissors to your perineum?”

• “Did you need forceps or a vacuum, or was your body simply never given the time and space to push your baby out naturally?”

• “Did you ‘fail’ to deliver your placenta, or was your body still pumping oxytocin to detach it safely—until someone yanked the cord and caused a hemorrhage?”

• “Did your baby need immediate suctioning, or was their mucus and fluid naturally designed to clear through the pressure of the birth canal?”

• “Did your milk ‘fail to come in,’ or was your baby taken from you too soon, disrupting the skin-to-skin contact that stimulates lactation?”

• “Did your uterus ‘not contract properly’ postpartum, or was the natural oxytocin surge blocked by Pitocin, narcotics, or unnecessary separation from your baby?”

• “Did you experience severe postpartum bleeding, or was your body denied the undisturbed first hour that triggers natural uterine contractions?”

• “Did you really ‘need’ cervical checks, or did each one trigger an adrenaline spike, slowing your labor and increasing your risk of infection?”

• “Did you develop postpartum depression, or was your hormonal balance thrown off by intervention, separation, and lack of informed support?”

• “Did your baby really need to be bathed immediately, or was their vernix a protective, antimicrobial coating meant to nourish their skin and regulate their temperature?”

• “Did your baby ‘fail to regulate their blood sugar,’ or was their natural transition disrupted by immediate cord clamping and hospital protocols that denied them their first undisturbed feed?”

• “Did your baby truly need to be placed in the NICU, or were they struggling because they were taken from your chest, where they were biologically designed to stabilize?”

Your body isn’t flawed. Your baby isn’t flawed. The system is. Birth works when we let it 💜🔻🧙‍♀️♾️

01/09/2026

“High-quality systematic review finds no value to "admission strip" CTG.... "Routine admission CTG in low-risk term pregnancies demonstrated no improvement in maternal or neonatal outcomes... These findings support current recommendations favouring IA [Intermittent auscultation] over routine admission CTG in low-risk pregnancies..." Full text at https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1471-0528.70047 Or as Henci Goer says "Just say no to routine CTG"... https://hencigoer.com/just-say-no-to-routine-continuous-fetal-monitoring/“

High-quality systematic review finds no value to "admission strip" CTG.... "Routine admission CTG in low-risk term pregnancies demonstrated no improvement in maternal or neonatal outcomes... These findings support current recommendations favouring IA [Intermittent auscultation] over routine admission CTG in low-risk pregnancies..." Full text at https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1471-0528.70047 Or as Henci Goer says "Just say no to routine CTG"... https://hencigoer.com/just-say-no-to-routine-continuous-fetal-monitoring/

01/09/2026

12/31/2025

Home Birth costs too much and we just can't afford it.

But did you have a big wedding? How did you afford that? You saved and you cut back on all the things and you had a beautiful wedding. Now do the same for your home birth. you won't be sorry.

12/19/2025

12/17/2025

12/14/2025

I thought this picture gave a really good visual on how a side bend can open up the diaphragm, hips and PSOAS which is that long muscle you see going from the ribs to the pelvis. It actually attaches to the lesser trochanter of the head of the femur bone. It's the only muscle that connects the upper body to the lower body! It links the core to the legs and is responsible for movement, stability and posture.

Remember your respiratory diaphragm is connected to the "pelvic diaphragm" or the pelvic floors ability to ascend and descend upon inhalation and exhalation. Without this connection functioning well, we are susceptible to tension in the pelvic floor.

That can lead to many, many things including prolapse, hypertonic pelvic floor, urinary issues and painful in*******se. Just to name a few.

It also affects our nervous system. Shallow breathing stimulates the fight or fight response. We take around 20K breaths a day and that's a lot of stimulus on the nervous system!! To take it even further, that's 7.5 MILLION a year! That's a lot of opportunity to create unwanted patterns.

New students are always directed to take the Breathing classes first to bring more awareness to that before we begin movement that supports the pelvic floor.