Dare Alla Luce Doula - Katharine Deeb

09/22/2025

Nicole Gress & Jessica Dean are phenomenal! This is a great chance to meet them and ask questions about working with their practice. Five stars!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Interested in becoming a patient but not sure? Stop by for our meet & greet!

Meet & Greet with Jessica Dean & Nicole Gress
📅 October 17, 2025
🕑 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
📍 301 Health Park Blvd, Suite 219, St. Augustine, FL 32086

For questions, please text (203)704-1448.

09/10/2025

Great rundown on using nitrous oxide in labor! If you want to try in Jax, St Vincent’s, the UF hospitals, and UF Flagler in StA are your only options, currently.

08/28/2025

08/27/2025

Beautiful post.🙏❤️🙌

08/11/2025

Homebirth should be an attainable, affordable option for low risk moms. We need to do SO much better here in the US.

08/03/2025

This month at STA! Sign up for class!

08/03/2025

Love these old photos. 🤱🏼🤱🏽🤱🏻

07/01/2025

Do You Have to Warm Up Refrigerated Milk for Baby? 🍼

Let’s clear something up:
There is no scientific reason you have to warm up breast milk. Nutritionally, cold milk is totally safe to serve straight from the fridge. And cold milk doesn’t increase the risk of colic, digestive discomfort, or gas. The temperature also doesn’t impact the nutritional value of your milk, but the length of time it spends outside of your body does. The longer it sits in the fridge or freezer, the more nutrients are lost. Breast milk is a living substance, so flavor also changes the longer it’s stored.

But… will your baby drink it cold? That’s a whole other story.

Here’s the deal:

💡 Some babies don’t mind cold milk at all. They’ll happily take a chilled bottle and move on with their day like the milk sommelier they are. It’s totally fine to take it out of the fridge, shake it to mix the separated fat back in, and feed it

🥶 Others? Not so much. They might purse their lips, turn their head, or scream like you’ve betrayed them. And that doesn’t necessarily mean something’s wrong—it could just means they have a preference for temperature. (Don’t we all?). The temperature can also impact the taste. I want my coffee to scale my throat going down. Room temperature coffee tastes horrific. I also hate iced coffee. It is not the same experience for me. Some babies are the same

👶🏼 If your baby is refusing bottles, milk temperature could be one of the missing pieces. Breast milk is body temp when it comes out (around 98–99°F), and some babies associate that warmth with comfort and familiarity—especially if they mostly nurse

So if you’re struggling with:
•A baby who won’t take a bottle
•A baby who takes some bottles but not all
•A new caregiver offering milk during the day
…offer fresh milk warmed to body temp to keep that variable the same as when directly breastfeeding and see what happens.

It might not fix everything—but for some babies, that little shift in temperature is just what they need

05/29/2025

Truly inspiring evening listening to changemakers Midwife Jennie Joseph and Dr. Chandra Adams discuss their efforts to influence the state of perinatal, maternal and postpartum health care in Florida. These fierce women are improving patient outcomes by championing dignity, respectful care and basic human rights for birthing families while rallying against the for-profit medical industrial complex, outdated hospital and public policy, institutionalized racism. 🙏🔥💥💥👏

05/29/2025

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05/21/2025

Please share and contribute if you can.🙏

Please join Cherry Blossom Birth & Bereavement as we partner with Mera's Mission to donate a Caring Cradle to the UF Health Flagler Hospital. Giving the gift of time: Mera's Mission has the goal of…

05/16/2025

Beautiful.

For the first time in over 60 years, a baby was born on Kehewin Cree Nation last month thanks to a midwifery program that is the first of its kind in a First Nation in Alberta.

In the early hours of April 5, Maelan Simaganis-Tsatoke started to feel contractions, but she was in Edmonton, far from her home in Kehewin, 240 kilometres east of the city.

She decided to drive nearly three hours back to the First Nation.

"I just knew that I wanted our family there, community," said Simaganis-Tsatoke, who is originally from Poundmaker First Nation in Saskatchewan.

"It was like a dream, honestly, to have that experience."

By the time Simaganis-Tsatoke arrived, a makeshift birthing centre had been set up in a space that was formerly a daycare.

What made this birth different is that it was a traditional birth, incorporating Cree songs, smudging, and a fire burning outside. Kokums — or grandmothers — played a key role.

"Every contraction I had somebody holding me and when they got stronger, my cousin Jada was singing to me," said Simaganis-Tsatoke.

"It just helped ground me and it was just a really beautiful experience. And to have the kokums smudging me, praying for me, I just loved it. It was so beautiful."

Full article: https://bsky.app/profile/decolonizemyself.bsky.social/post/3lov3jhf5ik2r