Brittany Belcher, Birth Doula

11/29/2025

.
This is not necessarily about “types” of birth but rather about the process and the spirit and temperament and attitude brought into it and all the choices surrounding it.

Those who have been in the work of pregnancy and birth long enough see it clearly. The spirit in which a woman births will greatly influence how she then enters into her motherhood.

Birth is transformative. It is designed to crack us open and allow mother to be born from maiden. But it’s also not magical. You don’t suddenly become a different person as your baby leaves your body.

The attitudes, intention, and spirit you carry when pregnant and when you birth will deeply shape how you mother. The whole PROCESS is meant to transform us. God designed it that way.

If she is honored and reverenced during her birth, walking through the fire and making it to the other side, she will carry that strength and confidence and faith into her motherhood.

If she is willing to sacrifice anything for the sake of her child during pregnancy and birth, she will carry that into her motherhood.

If she is happy to (or talked into) going with the mainstream when pregnant, she will carry that into her motherhood.

If she acquiesces her authority or her intuition, she will carry that into her motherhood.

If she chooses things intentionally and thoughtfully, she will carry that into her motherhood.

If she gets browbeaten into things she doesn’t want, she will carry that into her motherhood.

If she carries and births her unborn child with a spirit of joy, inner strength, and receptivity or instead with a spirit of anxiety, misery, and resentment, she will carry that into her motherhood.

That’s NOT to say that we can’t change course. Not at all. Praise God for His mercy and His ability to grow us and change us and make things new.

It IS to say that pregnancy and birth are training grounds for your motherhood and there is no better time to start becoming the mother you want to be - that He wants you to be and created you to be - than now.

🤍

11/18/2025

So sweet!

11/05/2025

From one of the biggest homebirth studies done.

11/02/2025

10/28/2025

10/19/2025

09/01/2025

08/20/2025

The food you eat and the water you drink do not magically go directly to your breast milk. What you eat and drink goes first to your stomach to be broken down and then into your intestines to be absorbed and processed. Your digestive system breaks nutrients into parts small enough for your body to absorb and use for energy, growth, and cell repair. The muscles of the small intestine mix food with digestive juices from the pancreas, liver, and intestine. Special cells in the walls of the small intestine absorb water and the digested nutrients into your bloodstream. Your blood carries molecule-sized components such as simple sugars (carbohydrates), amino acids, white blood cells, enzymes, water, fat, and proteins throughout your body. As blood passes by the breasts, milk glands pull out these nutrients for milk production and pass some of them to your baby. Not all molecules are small enough to pass through into milk. (That’s why some medications are safe to take while breastfeeding and some are not. Molecules that are too big can’t get into the milk while really small molecules can.)

Nuts, seeds, beans, and grains all have plant based proteins. Meat and dairy are animal based proteins. Both plant and animal proteins carried in your blood can make it into your milk. Sometimes these proteins can affect baby’s digestive system, causing symptoms like reflux, gas, colic, and blood or mucus in the poops from iritations to baby’s intestinal lining. Diary proteins are the most common cause of upset in the stomach, however research suggests that the proportion of exclusively breastfed infants who are actually allergic to something in their mother’s milk is very small. (https://bit.ly/3rFHotE). Fussiness and gas alone are not enough to diagnose a cow milk protein allergy.

In general, there are NO foods that need to be avoided because you’re breastfeeding. Every baby is different in the foods they are sensitive to. IF your baby always seems to have a reaction when you eat a certain food or a large amount of a certain type of food, cutting back on it or cutting it out temporarily may be helpful.

08/08/2025

I will also die on this hill!! 💜