Sacred Haven Birth Services

15/07/2025

Such a beautiful henna session tonight for two incredible parents. My first time doing henna for both parents!

I could not be more thrilled to be supporting this family on their journey to birth and to be doing so alongside as she provides community midwifery care.

Setting all the intentions for this baby to be born safely at home in peace and power. 🫶🏻❤️

18/03/2025

What an incredible legacy -- 60 years of donating blood in order to save babies!

If you've been pregnant and you have a negative blood type, you've probably heard of Rhogam and were given it during pregnancy and after birth. This injection helps your body not develop antibodies that would attack future babies that you carry. This development has saved so many lives since the era when no one knew about this and many pregnancies ended because of it. This doctor had a rare antibody that is needed to make the Rhogam shot and gave blood for 60 years in order to help that shot be made. So amazing!

Doctors in Australia were struggling to figure out why thousands of births in the country were resulting in miscarriages, stillbirths or brain defects for the babies. In 1967, they discovered the babies were suffering from Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn, or HDN. The condition arises when a woman with an Rh negative blood type becomes pregnant with a baby who has Rh positive blood, and the incompatibility causes the mother’s body to reject the fetus’s red blood cells.

Doctors in Australia discovered that a very rare antibody in blood called Anti-D could be used to make a lifesaving medication that when given to mothers whose blood is at risk of developing HDN would keep the baby safe. Researchers scoured blood banks to see whose blood might contain this antibody and found a donor in New South Wales named James Harrison. Scientists asked him to participate in an experimental Anti-D program that turned out to be effective in saving these babies.

For more than 60 years, Harrison donated blood every single week and his plasma was used to make millions of Anti-D injections. Every ampoule of Anti-d ever made in Australia has a piece of James in it. Because about 17% of pregnant women in Australia require the Anti-D injections, the Australian blood service estimates that Harrison has helped 2.4 million babies in the country.

After donating 1,100 times, at 81 years old, despite wanting to continue, James Harrison was forced to retire from donating blood. James Harrison, appropriately nicknamed “The man with the golden arm,” passed away last month at the age of 88, one person who without exaggeration saved millions of lives.

Read the full article: https://aish.com/one-person-can-change-the-world/

27/02/2025

So thrilled that Alabama Cohosh Collaborative is offering free menstrual cups to folks in Alabama from now through March 21st! This has been a dream that's a long time in the making and our ACC team has worked really hard to make the dream come to life.

If you need a cup, apply here and please please share this post!

04/04/2024

A few new placenta mugs lately. All hand thrown on the wheel. Been putting in lots of practice hours there. ❤️ These are getting harder and harder to part with!

28/03/2024

Today is the day! I'll be part of this great panel for folks who are interested in being a doula in Alabama. Come with any of your questions, happy to be of service!! 😊

Zoom Panel Discussion: Ask an Experienced Doula⁠
For new or aspiring doulas in North Alabama⁠
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March 28, 6-7:00 PM⁠
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Featuring:⁠
🌸 Kirsten Clark
🌸 Ki Newsome
🌸 Emily Locke
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Link in bio to register.⁠
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06/03/2024

It's my birth month so I'm offering a sale on my birth-related ceramics + embroidery art! Take a peek if you'd like. 🥰 https://havenceramicsal.etsy.com
I'm still on the path of being a student midwife and purchases help me so much on my midwifery education journey! I appreciate all of the support so very much. ❤

23/02/2024

Grateful for Lindsey's words in our email newsletter and that Alabama Cohosh can stand proud in Alabama in solidarity with folks who are pregnant / wanting to be pregnant, even as more reproductive care rights are stripped from Alabamians.

https://mailchi.mp/alabamacohosh/we-live-in-alabama-and-we-deserve-reproductive-care