Midwife Jeannette

09/09/2025

This sounds like a great class!

Fort Smith area mamas, get excited!!!! 🤩🤩🤩

Labor & Latch is your all in one birth readiness class. Taught by Dr. Karinda Polk of Perfect Peace and Presleigh Williamson of River Valley Lactation, our hope is to present you with the latest evidenced-based education to equip you and your partner for birth and the fourth trimester. ✨

Bring your partner, a mat, and your birth ball. Come ready to learn and have fun with other mamas in the same season of life as you!

This class is recommended for those in their second and third trimesters, and appropriate for both first time mamas and those who have given birth before.

Only 6 spots are available.

Class length will be between 2-3 hours depending on length of questions and interactions. 🤍

📍Main lobby of Cavanaugh Church
💸$125 per couple
⭐️Secure your spot by following link: https://perfectpeacept.janeapp.com/locations/perfect-peace-physical-therapy-arkansas/book /1

09/04/2025

💥💥BREASTFEEDING MYTH 💥💥
"Many babies are lactose intolerant."

THIS IS NOT TRUE.
While many babies do have a hard time digesting cow’s milk or breast milk when mom is consuming cow’s milk, it is VERY RARE for a baby to be Lactose intolerant!

Human milk has approx. 10x the amount of lactose than cow’s milk. Lactose is the milk sugar, and the reason why human breast milk is so sweet.

What many human babies are reactive or intolerant of is the cow’s milk protein, not the sugar.

This is something that is meant to be digested by baby cows not human babies and very often they are unable to digest it, which can lead to fussiness, gas, and bowel irritation.

Since it is the protein and not the lactose that is almost always the problem, drinking lactose-free milk will not help. The only real solution is to remove cow’s milk from your diet.

This is something very important to keep in mind since it is so common and also what it used to make infant formula. 🤱❤️

**Note: Babies that are intolerant of cow's milk protein are also often intolerant of soy as well

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08/26/2025

Scientists have discovered breastmilk isn’t just food.
It’s alive.

It holds living cells. Stem cells. Tiny exosomes that carry healing instructions through the body.
It can regulate the immune system. Reduce inflammation.
Some studies even suggest it may help fight cancer.

And if you need proof, look at the science. In labs, breastmilk literally stops bacteria from growing.

Your body makes something no lab can fully recreate.
Something that shifts and adapts to your child’s needs in real time.
Something so powerful, it’s reshaping what we know about medicine.

Share this if you’ve ever been in awe of what your body can do. You’re allowed to be proud ❤️ The Breastmilk Queen - Amy McGlade

08/26/2025

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01/12/2025

https://www.nationalcmv.org/overview/prevention-tips

Women who are pregnant or are planning to become pregnant should exercise these CMV prevention tips to lower the risk of CMV and to ensure a healthy pregnancy.

01/11/2025

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You read that right.

Per the American College of OB/GYN’s 2019 VBAC guidelines, the risk of maternal death during a planned vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) is 0.0019%.

Expressed another way, that is a risk of 1 in 52,600.

Did you have any idea the risk was that low?

Whereas the risk of maternal death with an elective repeat cesarean after one cesarean is 0.0096% or 1 in 10,000.

Again, both really small numbers but the risk of maternal death is five times higher in a repeat cesarean.

This is why when pregnant people are threatened with “you could die if you plan a VBAC,” it falls flat.

But it is often really successful in coercing someone into a repeat cesarean... as well as eroding patient autonomy and any trust when the birthing person learns the facts.

As a L&D nurse told me, “There is no real informed consent anymore.”

This is just yet another example.

ETA: Some people asked in the comments about the risk of fetal death. We discuss that here: https://vbacfacts.com/.../confusing-fact-only-6-of.../

Also, you can download our free resources including:

- a report debunking the top 5 uterine rupture myths: https://vbacfacts.com/report

- a handout busting the top 3 VBAC myths using national guidelines: https://vbacfacts.com/acogmyths

- and a VBAC planning checklist: https://vbacfacts.com/checklist (links in bio)

In order to have a meaningful conversation about vbac and uterine rupture, one must understand what a catastrophic rupture is and how often it occurs.

12/16/2024

I have availability July & August 2025 😊

03/22/2024

I remember this! We left a very frozen Tulsa to go home for Christmas, we were at a standstill in Jacksonville after being on the road for 24 hours! It was a extra long drive because of road conditions.