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11/15/2025

09/19/2025

Please like and follow my new page if you haven’t already. This one has been over run with trolls and creeps. Michigan Holistic Midwifery

08/06/2025

A baby's transition from life inside to the womb to outside the womb is one of the most complex physiological processes that a human goes through.

When a baby is in utero, they don't use their lungs to obtain oxygen. Their lungs are filled with fluid and are essentially bypassed in circulation. Instead, oxygen-rich blood is delivered from the placenta through the umbilical cord.

During labor and birth, as the baby moves through the birth canal, pressure on the chest helps expel some of the fluid from the lungs. Hormonal signals promote absorption of the remaining fluid into the lymphatic system shortly after birth.

The baby’s exposure to cooler air, touch, and light stimulates the first breaths and crying. These initial respirations help inflate the lungs, clear residual fluid, and dramatically increase the oxygen level in the blood. The lungs will begin producing surfactant, a substance that reduces surface tension in the alveoli, allowing them to stay open during exhalation.

As the baby breathes and oxygen levels rise, pulmonary blood vessels dilate, decreasing resistance in the lungs and encouraging blood flow through them. This causes the foramen ovale (a hole between the heart chambers) to close functionally within the first few breaths, redirecting blood flow from the right side of the heart to the lungs. Simultaneously, the ductus arteriosus begins to constrict and typically closes within the first day or two after birth.

Within minutes of birth, a newborn shifts from relying on maternal oxygen via the placenta to breathing independently, marking the beginning of how they will breathe for the rest of their life.

08/05/2025

📣Calling doulas, midwives, parents, grandparents!🩵. I’m honored to have been invited to be a featured speaker along with some of my absolute heroes in this powerful online interview series. These extraordinary conversations about birth are the comprehensive and frank discussions so rarely heard yet deeply needed!

🩵 It starts August 12th, and by registering now you’ll have free access to each interview for 48 hours to listen at your convenience. Comment BIRTH for an easy link in your messages!

05/15/2025

Hi friends, I have had this page deactivated for awhile but decided to reactivate it to redirect people who want to follow me to my new page. This page has become overrun with trolls and creeps and it's making it so I'm heavily censored and not showing up in algorithms. Plus it's strayed too far away from the reason I created it in the 1st place, so I made the hard decision to start over. Please if you enjoy my content and keeping up with my journey, give the new page a like and follow. And please if you see this post, keep it bumped for me. I'm not sure how many will see it at this point.

This is my new page. I'm just getting started on it. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61574674007343

Finally hit 100 followers ❤️

The Warrior Within Holistic Midwifery And Wellness. Aspiring naturopathic midwife, holistic doula, lactation counselor, childbirth educator, and placenta encapsulator serving Michigan’s lower peninsula.

04/22/2025

Almost to 100 followers. Please, if you haven’t already, like and follow my new page. This one is being deactivated and I’m starting new.

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61574674007343

04/19/2025

Hi friends, I have had this page deactivated for awhile but decided to reactivate it for a moment to redirect people who want to follow me to my new page. This page has become overrun with trolls and creeps and it's making it so I'm heavily censored and not showing up in algorithms. Plus it's strayed too far away from the reason I created it in the 1st place, so I made the hard decision to start over. Please if you enjoy my content and keeping up with my journey, give the new page a like and follow. And please if you see this post, keep it bumped for me. I'm not sure how many will see it at this point.

This is my new page. I'm just getting started on it. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61574674007343

02/09/2025

We use the tools that we train with. Traditional midwives train with tools like being patient with time, experiencing normal birth, and lots and lots of time with highly experienced mentors. Obstetricians train with emergencies, their surgical tools, and not a lot of time was normal Birth.

Birth is a normal physiological process. Best to save those surgeons and high risk experts for when birth leaves normal and needs those specialty tools and skills.

Those of you that have birthed with different sorts of professionals, how did it vary? How did it change your experience and with your baby?

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"When you change the way you view birth, the way you birth will change." -Marie Mongan

Hi, my name's Alisha. I am the holistic doula/birthkeeper, lactation peer counselor, child birth educator, and student midwife behind The Warrior Within Birth Services. I have always been called to birth work but never knew how I was supposed to answer that calling in the way I was meant to. I wandered around, lost within the world of birth, until recently, when the vision became clear and I finally knew what I was supposed to do: I needed to teach the world about birth and guide birthing people back to their power.

As I studied more and more about birth, I learned that while babies have obviously been being born since the beginning of time, what isn't so obvious to many is what's happening with our bodies and how our births influence and shape not only us, but our babies too. Speaking about birth has become so taboo within our society, especially in a positive, realistic light. Birthing people have been left with knowing very little about their own bodies and their options for their births and babies. This, combined with the over-medicalization of birth and our society conditioning us to believe birth is always an emergency we must be saved from, has left us to believe that we are broken before we even get a chance to have an understanding. Over and over, I watched this mindset take away control and leave birthing people scared and disempowered. As I continued to hear more negative birth experiences, I knew I needed to do something to change this. This is what fueled the fire in creating The Warrior Within, where I now passionately strive to bring awareness, normalize birth, and break the stigma.

The creation of The Warrior Within holds great meaning. The knowledge and power surrounding birth has been lost. As a birthkeeper, it is my honor to reunite you with your higher self and your power of instinctive knowing. I will continue to remind you of your power's existence and give you all the encouragement, support, and resources to help guide you to it, feel strength in it, and keep it. This power? That is the warrior within us, and together we will use that power and rise, one birth at a time. I love and appreciate every single one of you who are on this journey with me. Love and Light.

- Alisha