The Nesting Parent

11/25/2025

Next course! Advanced Maternal Blood Work Analysis by .maternity

If there is one area that I’ve been eager to dive into it’s been this!

11/24/2025

BEST (Birth Emergency Skills Training) was amazing!
We learned so much and had a blast hanging out together as a community. Something we rarely get to do with all of our crazy birth worker schedules. ❤️

11/19/2025

11/18/2025

Premature Ligation of the Umbilical Cord by Patricia Edmonds
The placenta and cord are, in effect, organs of the newborn. The cord develops from the same tissue that makes up the fetal side of the placenta and this tissue is contiguous with the baby’s skin. Cord clamping is the first medical intervention experienced by most humans as part of the third stage of labor. Delay in clamping and cutting of the umbilical cord improves neonatal cardiopulmonary adaptation, increases blood pressure, improves oxygen transport and red blood cell flow, reduces the number of days on ventilation and oxygen with sick and premature infants and reduces the incidence of anemia.
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11/14/2025

11/11/2025

First ❄️

11/06/2025

11/05/2025

The eve of the Beaver full moon & Election Day

11/04/2025

I believe in you! 🤣 But seriously… it’s not hard.

Share this post with a friend who may have no clue this is an option!

The Group Beta Strep (GBS) test is usually performed around 36 weeks gestation. Most women are told that it is mandatory, and that their provider must administer it.

They are told to disrobe from the waist down, cover up with that crunchy paper drape, and scoot their butt to the end of the table. All this so that someone can wipe a swab on their butt and va**na, something they easily could have done themselves in the bathroom.

Most midwives will tell you that you have the option to swab yourself, most OBs will not. In fact, if you say you’d prefer to DIY it, they will often treat you as if you couldn’t possibly handle such a task.

What if you don’t do it right?! How will you *gasp* reach all the way back there?!

Please 🙄

You’re a grown woman, and I’m sure swabbing your own butt is on the looooong list of things you’re very capable of.

If you’d rather perform your own swab, just tell your provider that’s what you’ll be doing. You will simply take the swab to the bathroom, swab your stuff, and then put it back in the container for the lab to culture. Easy peasy.

Were you given the option to swab yourself for the GBS test?

11/04/2025

Perfect day to pull out my “They didn’t burn witches, they burned women” shirt. Hope you all got out there and voted!