The Human Rites Midwife

05/23/2024

- for breech, all they had to do was get mama on her hands and knees and keep their hands to themselves . . . and then, if an issue arose, such as head entrapment, they could do physiological maneuvers with their hands.

- for shoulder dystocia, all they had to do was rotate baby, with prayer hands, to free the shoulders, and fish for the wrists to pull them out.

- to this day, both of these occurrences will land you with an unnecessary induction and/or an immediate unnecessarean; the medical mafia has successfully convinced women that a major abdominal surgery is safer than following basic physiology.

Yeah, they're not using chainsaws to saw your pelvis anymore, but they are inducing you and injecting you with fentanyl, en masse, routinely, to paralyze you - all the while, aiming to stall your birth . . . so that they will have a reason to put on paper when they slice you open with a scalpel and bill you for more money (bonus points if you have surgical complications.)



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02/14/2024

Call ya girl in nine months. 😉📞

02/09/2024

02/06/2024

✽ CALLING ALL INTACTIVISTS + TRADITIONAL BIRTHWORKERS❕✽

The Erasure of Traditional Midwifery is Modern-Day Witch-Burning:
- when you obtain midwifery licensure through the government, this means that you now work for the government, rather than the women that you claim to serve; the government *owns* you, as a midwife, and the slip of paper (title), that you paid so much for, does not even protect you from legal recourse . . . instead, it legally binds your hands and forces you to do things that violate bodily autonomy and are not in the best interest of a mother or her baby . . . and if you do not do said things, you risk losing your licensure and face legal reprimand.

- babies die at the hands of OBGYNs, every day, and babies are skinned alive without any pain management by OBGYNs (ge***al mutilation), every day; Money Over Morals is a common theme, and no one bats an eye. It doesn't matter how you educate yourself, as a traditional midwife; in the eyes of the government, you are not working for them, and thus, you are 'bad.' Here, OBGYNs aim to cut open as many women as possible, for money; they toss out the 'breech babies need a c-section', 'your baby is too big', 'you can't go past 40 weeks', and 'you can't birth naturally after a c-section' lies like candy - all so that they can earn more money. Your average OBGYN hasn't *ever* experienced a normal, physiological birth, as their job is to meddle, and the minute you meddle, birth is no longer physiological.

Governmental Licensure often forces midwives to be overly handsy - two examples: performing mandatory cervical checks, to 'get their numbers', and placenta removals without consent.

Let's say you're past 40 weeks guesstimate gestation, and you've been seeing a government midwife; you may be forced to induce (meddle), to have their birth attendance, or you will be transferred out of their care - meaning: you won't have birth support anymore!

You've found out it's more dangerous to have a repeat cesarean than try for a VBAC, so, what if you want a VBA2C? You may be risked out of care, by governmental midwives, just for that. Then, your only option is to birth at home, by yourself and/or your partner, or find a traditional midwife or doula who is okay with attending your birth because they don't have a licensure that forces them to abandon you - or the hospital (and you won't have a choice; they will cut you open.)

There are numerous instances where you could be risked out of care, and even if you're not, can you trust that your autonomy is truly being honored?

I stand with the women who fight for bodily autonomy, and I stand with traditional birthworkers - from doulas to traditional midwives. You will not diminish the sanctity of our birth experiences, over a piece of paper. I am not comfortable with a white coat or a wolf in sheep's clothing, attending any of my future births. I am tired of having hands shoved in me and my placentas yanked out of me, over textbook numbers; what happened to MY body, MY choice and MY intuition?

Thankfully, some states respect traditional midwifery, but Kentucky?
- not so much: our birth community has several 'birth activists' who are actively partaking in the witch-hunt and erasure of traditional birth.

I, myself, am a traditional birthkeeper (doula), who attends out-of-hospital births. I do not claim to be a medical provider, nor do I ever aim to be.

- 'midwife' means 'with woman', and while I am not a birth midwife, I am a spiritual midwife; I talk to Higher Selves and Spirit Guides in other dimensions, and I assist individuals through spiritual awakenings.

I have a National Provider Identifier as a Lay Midwife, but Kentucky does not recognize it. So, I can legally attend births, advertising as a birth midwife, in Ohio and West Virginia, but not Kentucky; this is why you will not see me call myself a birth midwife during the duration of me living in Kentucky. Here, I am a Doula, a Birthkeeper, or a Traditional Birth Attendant.

It's all semantics, and here is a case of witch-burning: Gloria Lemay. Gloria refused to let her hands be tied by licensure; she refused to become a pawn for the government to meddle in home birth. Stand with women; stand with Gloria.

Donate to Gloria Lemay through PayPal: StandWithGloria@gmail.com
https://vancouversun.com/health/duncan-home-gloria-lemay-midwife-searched?fbclid=IwAR1fUUPmo74EAXhhGreUWp4wQ5XH81ZsPSlFdcwIhN1YWsLm38s56HWAY7g

02/03/2024

- after birth, my eldest didn't nurse for five days. He had severe oral ties, inhibiting him from latching and suckling correctly; the clue lay in the clicking sound and pain that was brought on, each time an attempt to nurse was made.

I was determined to breastfeed, though, so I tried my hardest to pump, and I syringe-fed him that pumped milk.

I hardly got any sleep in those first few days because I was improperly pumping - with the wrong type of pump, and improperly-fit flanges; I wasn't yielding a sufficient quantity of milk in the allotted pumping time, which ultimately led to me pumping what-felt-to-be practically nonstop, and I contracted mastitis.

I didn't know that flanges weren't one-size-fits-all. I honestly didn't know what I was doing, at all. I'd never had a baby before, and for the typical newborn, and most mothers, it's as simple as putting the baby to your breast, right?

I knew that my colostrum was more than enough, though - liquid gold, as they call it, and once baby's ties were resolved, he latched, successfully, for the very first time! We went on to nurse for 4️⃣ years!

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