Midwife and Doula Services, LLC

09/29/2025

Truth here!!

09/29/2025

Terrific graphic and explanation!
We women are AMAZING!

✨👶🏽 Did you know that pregnancy doesn’t just grow a baby… it reshapes the entire inside of the body?! 🤯💡

Here’s how the organs shift as the uterus expands to full term:

🫁 Lungs & diaphragm → Pushed upward, making it harder to catch your breath 😮‍💨
🍔 Stomach → Moves higher and gets squeezed, which is why heartburn & nausea can happen 🤢🔥
🍪 Intestines → Shift up and around the baby, getting tucked away in every available space 🌀
🩸 Bladder → Flattened & compressed beneath the uterus, which explains the endless bathroom trips 🚽💦
🫀 Liver & pancreas → Nudged up toward the ribs, changing how digestion and blood flow feel 🩺
🍑 Re**um → Pressed back and down, adding to constipation struggles 🚫💩

All of this happens while the uterus grows from the size of a 🍊 orange to a 🏀 basketball (and beyond!).

💪🏽 The body is absolutely phenomenal in the way it adapts, shifts, and makes room for new life. 🌎💖

-Love,
Badassmotherbirther

09/27/2025

So with studying this if planning a VBAC!!!!

09/23/2025

I highly recommend giving birth in water!

🌊 Birth and Water: A History as Old as Humanity
For centuries, water has been a place of life, oceans, rivers, and springs.

In Nicaragua, this mother chose the shoreline as her birth space, embodying something ancient yet radical.

✨ The first documented water births in Europe appeared in the early 1800s.
✨ By the 1970s, pioneers like Igor Charkovsky (Russia) and Dr. Michel Odent (France) began experimenting with water birth as we know it today.
✨ Today, families worldwide return to the elements finding comfort, autonomy, and strength in water.

Birth belongs everywhere: in homes, in hospitals, and sometimes… at the edge of the sea 🌊👣.

-Love,
Badassmotherbirther

𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐌𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞, 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞, & 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭!
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09/19/2025

A natural physiologic birth is worth working toward! Pay attention to optimal nutrition & hydration & find an experienced midwife who counsels you on nutrition!!!! If you are low risk & in good health- strongly consider giving birth at home!!!!🥰👶🏻

09/16/2025

In a new study, Yale researchers show that the placenta regulates serotonin delivery to the fetus, contrary to past beliefs that it manufactures the hormone.