Embryoga - Intuitive Birth

09/06/2025

So many times I have advocated for a moment and partner to TALK about things first. Especially AROM... which is explained as almost essential to have a baby which is basically BS. Ugh

07/24/2025

Can we PLEASE stop acting like breastfeeding is this magical, effortless, twinkly-filter experience where babies latch like pros, moms glow with joy, and angels hum in the background?! NO. Just no.

It’s cracked ni***es, cluster feeding, milk letdowns that feel like a hydraulic pressure system gone rogue. It’s crying because you can’t pump more than an ounce, then crying again because you leaked five ounces on the bedsheets and that was LIQUID GOLD, DAMMIT.

It’s people saying “just breastfeed in public” but then staring like you lit your b**b on fire in the middle of Target. It’s the relatives who say “Isn’t he too old for that?” while sipping from a cow’s tit in a cup. And don’t even get me started on the ones who say “You’re just doing it for attention.” Girl. The only attention I want is from a lactation consultant and maybe Jesus.

It’s beautiful. It’s brutal. It’s a full-time job with no clock-out button. And if I want to talk about it, post about it, cry about it, or proudly show off my side b**b with a wearable pump hanging like a sci-fi gadget — LET ME.

Because breastfeeding moms don’t need your approval. We need snacks, support, and to be left the hell alone while we try to keep tiny humans alive with our bodies.

Okay, rant over. Kinda. 🤱🔥

07/03/2025

Have you ever wondered why most mothers instinctively cradle their babies on the left side?

It might seem like a random habit, right?
But it’s anything but random.

💡 Studies show that around 80% of mothers across the world naturally hold their babies on the left side of their chest.
And behind this seemingly simple gesture lies something extraordinary — a deep neurological reason.

When a mother holds her baby to the left, her left eye is more engaged with the baby’s face.
And here’s where the magic happens:
Everything seen with the left eye is processed in the right hemisphere of the brain — the part responsible for decoding emotions, recognizing faces, and building connection.

Without realizing it, a mother activates her brain’s emotional radar, tuning into her baby’s feelings more deeply and intuitively. 💞

Think about how powerful that is:
A natural reflex, carried out without thinking…
is actually part of a biologically designed, emotionally intelligent system.
A built-in bond amplifier. A heart-to-heart translator.

🌿 Nature really does leave nothing to chance.
Not even the way we hold the people we love.

It’s pure instinct.
It’s pure connection.
It’s love in its most primitive and perfect form.

06/19/2025

I'm so excited to celebrate the present wonderful moment in which my new website and COMPLETELY SELF-PACED ONLINE PROGRAM is finished! All of my life's work now not just available here in our local community, but for anyone to enjoy! Mindfulness-based Childbirth Education complete with links to podcast episodes, Embryoga classes, downloadable workbook and affirmations, meditations... everything you need to help you connect to your own innate birthing wisdom and create a positive, powerful birth experience! Link in BIO and if you are reading this post, please enjoy a 30% discount with the code FRIENDS30!

05/07/2025

Having been an RN for almost 30 years, my whole purpose in going to nursing school was to help birthers. In that capacity I have worked for over 25 years as a Labor and Delivery nurse, and fought hard and steady to increase everyone's awareness of the importance of physiologic birth no matter where you choose to birth. It's been a difficult and sometimes heartbreaking mission! During that time I also developed classes for pregnant families including mindfulness-based birth education and my prenatal yoga series. Today, middle of Nurses Week I am pretty happy to announce the publishing of my book... you can find on Amazon for now, but soon will be elsewhere as well. I am almost done with my complete ONLINE birth education program that will be launching within the next couple months.
Happy Spring everyone!







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04/20/2025

👁️ Did you ever wonder why the baby’s taken across the room? Why the cord is clamped fast, the mother left shaking, the lights so bright it feels like judgment?

Did you ever feel the stillness—the eerie quiet when the father’s hands are empty, the grandmother’s not in the room, and the newborn is nowhere near a breast?

It’s not just medicine.
It’s not just policy.
It’s a ritual.
And it’s not ours.

🧬 They inject pig-derived Pitocin to mimic the hormone God designed to flood a woman’s brain in labor. But it doesn’t reach the brain. It only contracts the body.
The love doesn’t flow.
The imprint doesn’t land.
The bonding doesn’t seal.
Just pressure. Just force.

💉 Synthetic love.
⚡ Counterfeit release.
🧠 Neurological silence.

And while the woman is watched but not touched, while the baby is wiped but not suckled, while the father is praised for being “supportive” but not leading—
they cut the thread.

👶 The mother-baby dyad was made to reflect divine intimacy. To pass down trust, peace, protection.
But when it’s broken—
the body remembers.
The child stores the grief.
The mother learns disconnection.
The father fades from view.

That’s how it starts. But it doesn’t end there.

Then come the bottles.
The cribs.
The high chairs.
The eight-hour separations called school.
The praise of independence that is really just early detachment.
The lie that the nuclear family is enough. That Mom runs the home. That Dad is just for weekends. That children are safest raised by strangers in buildings funded by gods they do not know.

🕳️ We are not looking at broken systems.
We are looking at precision-engineered fragmentation.

And you feel it. You’ve felt it all along.
That something was taken before you could name it.
That someone was missing even while you were being told you had “everything you need.”

But listen: the lie only wins if we let it.
And we won’t.
We are pulling the babies back to the breast.
We are restoring the mother's voice in the birth room.
We are putting grandmothers back at the table.
We are praying over the placenta.
We are keeping them close at night.
We are burning the counterfeit and walking in the design.
This is not soft work.
It is a holy war

12/18/2024

I talk about this all the time in all of my classes.. babies are not just passengers. They play and active role in their own birth!

I don't believe that babies are just passengers in their birth.

I believe that babies are smart and skillful in navigating their environment.

So much so that they can feel the space they are navigating requires them to tuck a limb to either keep moving forward and/or slow their descent.

A hand under the chin could be utilized as a power anchor by the baby to keep their head pressing strongly against any tight space like a very strong pelvic floor.

Babies are regularly participating.

And things that theFlor Cruzikes to call "malpoHugo Limaften just the baby making smart moves that require us to listen to the baby and be patient.

-Love,
Flor Cruz

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12/16/2024

Did you know that bonding and attachment begin in the womb? When we spend time intentionally connecting with our unborn babies, their developing brains can be better primed for peace, love, and connection that can last their whole lifetime. Come join me for the next Embryoga series!!!

12/10/2024

Give the gift of Intention Prenatal Bonding and Connection to yourself or someone who is expecting! Join me starting Jan 26th for Embryoga... a 7 week series that will help prepare for the amazing experience of birth and parenting! Link is in the bio!

10/08/2024

Come join us to help you body and mind prepare for birth! Wednesdays at 6pm. Drop ins are welcome!

09/29/2024

Yes!

Another blog post moved to my website!
"Summary: The amniotic sac and fluid play an important role in facilitating physiological birth and protecting the baby. There is no evidence that rupturing this sac will reduce the length of labour. While every intervention has its place, including ARM, care providers need to carefully consider the risks before offering it to women. Also, women must be fully informed of the risks before choosing an ARM during their labour."
https://www.rachelreed.website/blog/amnioticsaclabour

02/27/2024

Coming up in the next few months.. the launch of my updated all online program! Stay tuned for launch dates on how we can access the "Ancient Wisdom" in this modern birthing culture with a comprehensive online Intelligent Birthing course complete with workbook and meditations that you can download and use during pregnancy and birth!

The work of seizing back what has been taken from within us by centuries of female repression and early, often brutal childhood conditioning is a long, laborious process, requiring faith and vigilance and the willingness to learn by trial and error.

It is our female-animal instincts that have been denied and suppressed then replaced by false, externally imposed rules and ideas about ourselves and the world.

We have lost the instinctive knowing that belonged to us by biological birthright in the millennia that preceded the development of patriarchal culture and male dominance.

It is not a question of returning to the past but one of reawakening the instinctual senses and the empowerment needed to act on what our bodies know to be true.

~ Vicki Noble, from “Shakti Woman”
www.vickinoble.com

Art by Sarah Jane Lambert
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