Midwife and Doula Services, LLC

02/18/2026

02/12/2026

Knowledge is power.

02/11/2026

02/03/2026

THE PLACENTA!!! An amazing organ!!!!

01/25/2026

Pay attention!!

01/24/2026

Understand this!!

01/15/2026

Leave the bag of water intact!!

01/07/2026

12/25/2025

Hmmmm.... epidurals during labor separate mom from baby...
This makes sense......instead of choosing - get up out of the bed, move around, eat for energy, guzzle fluids! Better yet- think ahead! Choose a homebirth with a seasoned midwife.

12/24/2025

An important discussion in my "placenta 101" class- held following every birth I attended-early on in the hospital setting & for 15 years attending births at home!

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Placentas don’t have an expiration date.

They don’t hit 40 weeks, throw up their hands, and say, “Welp, my shift is over. Good luck, kid.”

The placenta is a living, dynamic organ that adapts, grows, compensates, and supports the baby as long as the pregnancy is healthy.

It doesn’t suddenly “stop working” at 39, 40, 41, or even 42 weeks.

What does happen?

Providers project their fear of due dates onto your body.

They treat 40 weeks like a deadline instead of a range.

They blame the placenta for every convenience-based induction they want to schedule.

But the science is clear:
⭐ Healthy placentas show normal function past 40 weeks.
⭐ Many babies are born at 41–42 weeks with completely normal placentas.
⭐ “Postdates placenta failure” is often a manufactured fear, not a physiological fact.

A placenta doesn’t just quit.

It signals. It shifts. It gives clues.

Stop telling parents their bodies have an expiration date.

Stop pretending the placenta is some unreliable organ that randomly gives up.

It continues to function normally until birth, unless there is an actual medical condition causing impairment and that condition shows signs LONG before labor is induced for “just in case.”

-Love,
Flor Cruz
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