InnerBirth

12/30/2025

👉 Blood and oxygen: During pregnancy, your body increases blood volume by nearly 50% to deliver enough oxygen and nutrients to the placenta and baby — meaning your heart and lungs are working harder every day.

👉 Energy use: Pregnancy raises your baseline energy needs, even at rest, because your body is growing an organ (the placenta), building a baby, and constantly adapting hormones and physical bodily functions.

👉 Muscles and ligaments: Hormones like relaxin soften ligaments and joints to prepare for birth, which changes movement and posture and stability — even without “doing” anything physical.

👉 Brain and nervous system: Pregnancy alters brain chemistry and stress response systems to support bonding and caregiving, which can increase emotional sensitivity, mental load, and exhaustion.

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11/25/2025

InnerBirth fams…you don’t want to miss this!!

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11/22/2025

Sharing our brilliant and beautiful student midwife, Cairiel Young with all of you! She is in her final stretch of her midwifery program, preparing to finish next month! I couldn’t be more proud of her.

11/22/2025

On Tuesday 11/18, as many of you know, our Kim was in a terrible head-on collision. She’s now facing recovery with a broken foot, a broken arm, and a whole lot of bruising. Her Jeep was totaled, and her life has been turned upside down in a moment.

If you know Kim, you know the kind of love she gives- steady, wholehearted, and always poured into everyone around her. Kim has supported so many of us through some of the most important moments of our lives. Now it’s our turn to lift her up.

We’ve started a meal train to help ease her load while she heals. Whether you drop off a warm meal, send a note, mail a card, or simply keep her in your thoughts and prayers, every act matters. Healing takes time and love helps carry the weight.

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Kim was in a serious head on collision on Tuesday 11/18, leaving her with a broken foot, a broken arm, and deep bruising. Her beloved Jeep was totaled, and she’s facing a long road to recovery. If you know Kim, you know her heart. Kim gives everything to her patients, her friends, her family, and ...

11/17/2025

Some of my favorite births are the ones where a mama who knows the medical world inside and out chooses to trust her body, her home, and the sacredness of physiological birth. 💛

This incredible mama is a nurse, and she chose homebirth. She chose presence over pressure, peace over protocols, and a birth team that honored her intuition every step of the way. Watching her step into her power was nothing short of inspiring.

What a gift to witness her strength, confidence, and the beautiful arrival of her baby in the place she feels safest - home. 🕊️✨

Congratulations, to another InnerBirth family. 💛

Shout out to Jacinta Lagos - Birth Services on her incredible birth photography skills. She’s magical!

11/11/2025

There is something so bittersweet about those final six week postpartum visits. As midwives, we enter into such an intimate, sacred season of your life, walking with you through pregnancy, birth, and those first tender weeks of becoming. We witness your strength, your courage, your tears, your joy…and then, just like that, at six week our care comes to a close.

I pour so much of my heart into these relationships that I always wish I could keep watching these sweet babies grow and cheer you on in every new chapter. 🥹✨

The beautiful part? So many of you do stay in touch. And I treasure that more than you know.

So if it’s been a while…send me a picture. Let me see those squishy cheeks, toothy smiles, first steps, sibling snuggles - all of it. 😉😘

Once I’ve been your midwife, you and your babies are forever part of my heart. 💛

11/08/2025

As a midwife I am a STRONG proponent of chiropractic care during pregnancy. I’ve seen it work wonders for so many pregnancy related symptoms, and common discomforts. Don’t overlook this incredible way to enhance your health and overall well being during pregnancy. 💜

11/05/2025

There is something so sacred about a first birth… and this one was truly a family affair. 💗

This sweet little one arrived earthside in the water, surrounded by the gentlest love and the most incredible support. Mom’s sisters, her mother and father, and her husband were all present - each offering quiet strength, encouragement, and presence. This is what makes homebirth so unique… birth becomes a shared, intimate, deeply personal moment of family legacy. ✨

And I have to brag on this first-time mama for a moment - about an hour before baby made it’s way into her arms, she literally hopped out of the birth tub and moved onto her Pilates reformer to work through contractions with grace and determination. Her stamina, her strength, her intuition… absolutely inspiring.

Congratulations to this amazing family.
Thank you for allowing us to walk this sacred journey with you. 🌿🕊️
Welcome to the world, sweet little one.

11/03/2025

There’s something so special about walking with a family through more than one birth journey. 💕
Today, I was able to offer a quick bedside ultrasound for a returning mama , just a simple way to bring peace of mind and reassurance in real time. Moments like these remind me why I love what I do. ✨

11/01/2025

This is a drum I will continue to beat until everyone is on board.

Head shape is NOT just a cosmetic issue.

Flattening causes the muscles attached to the skull to not work as well. When we have disadvantaged muscles, we inevitably see compensations that can lead to a whole host of issues like pain, headaches, altered jaw function, weird posture that can mess with the hips, and so much more. We also see shifts in face shape, ear positioning, and jaw position. This can affect how they eat and breathe- not just what their face looks like!

Not to mention that if we have flattening, where is baby's brain going?? 👀 The part that is most often flattened is the occiput (which is at the back of the head) and that's where our brain processes vision. That's not something I personally want to be messing with.

Add in that basic safety equipment like bike helmets and hard hats are designed for a relatively round shaped skull, and you're potentially setting your baby up to not have well fitting protective equipment in the future. I'd like my kids bike helmets to fit them properly so they don't suffer from head injuries when they inevitably fall off their bikes.

Ok, so you are noticing that your baby's head is flat, so you bring it up to your baby's P*P. And they tell you it's "normal" and to "just wait and see."

GAH 🤦‍♀️

Are babies' heads malleable? Yes. Do they change shape easily? Yes. But does that mean we shouldn't be checking to make sure it actually *is* within the realm of normal shape change? Absolutely not.

So what can you do? You can bring your baby down to Foundation PT where we will do a free head shape screening for your baby. We will actually pull out our craniometer to measure baby's head shape and see how severe the changes are and recommend a treatment plan to you. Some babies only need to be positioned differently. Others need physical therapy. Others need helmets. "Just wait and see" is never a recommendation here.

Want to have your baby screened for head shape changes? Schedule a visit at www.foundationptwi.com or call us at 262-627-0425.


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