Brewster Doula

03/05/2025

Free Car Seat Check - Brewster 3/8

3/8/25 11am-2pm
Brewster Fire Department
Station One
515 Route 312
Brewster, NY 10509

Certified technicians will check your car seat to make sure it is:

- Properly installed
- Correct seat for your child
- In the proper direction
- Not recalled
- Not expired

10/19/2024

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Recalls like this one bring attention to safe sleep practices for babies. Here's what parents need to know.

04/10/2024

PUSHING… There are so many ways to push a baby down and out, and the efficiency of that journey is dependent on a few things + is entirely relative to that individual birther. Sone things that factor in: Position/size of baby, tolerance of baby, anatomy/space in the birthers pelvis, the elasticity of the perineum, the powers of the contractions, the sensation of the pressure the baby is creating, the position of the birther- are we making ENOUGH space?One trick we’ve learned to really help garner more force to help the momentum downward is LEVERAGE. Holding or pulling something while bearing down can increase the force of movement. Here, in this gorgeous pic from we see the use of a Rebozo.

The Rebozo is a special, Mexican, woven cloth, woven by indigenous weavers generation after generation. The Rebozo is a cultural emblem as well as an artifact of women’s ceremony and daily life. The beautiful traditions of using an authentic Mexican Rebozo are handed down from mother to daughter and midwife to midwife. (If you’re thinking of learning about Rebozo techniques, please look into trainings offered by traditional Mexican Midwives like www.naolivinaver.com/rebozo-for-birth.html)

We see fabric used in birth in many different ways, but for pushing, it’s used mostly in a “tug of war” style- either wrapping it around a squat bar at the end of the bed and giving the birther the other end to hold and pull, or a lucky doula gets to be on the other end of it instead, balancing the birther’s pulls with their own. We can also use the handles on either side of a hospital bed, the back of the bed if the birther is on all fours, the headboard of a bed at home, the sides of a birthing stool and sometimes squatting in a doorway and holding onto the the doorknobs on either side of the door can act as leverage or even a partner’s/midwife’s/Doulas hands can be the extra support they need.

The next time you’re with a client in the 2nd stage, see if offering them something to hold or pull while they’re letting that pressure sink down is helpful! And then tell us all about!

Happy pushing!! 😤😮‍💨💪

03/05/2024