Birthing Mindfully Living Mindfully

10/23/2025

OUR CHOICES MATTER EVERYWHERE

10/23/2025

LOTS OF PROMISE SURROUNDING POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION Without a doubt, it's scary, it's debilitationg, it can be ambarrassing, and it is VERY treatable!! DROP BY www.seenaelbaumbmlm.com and READ ON HERE https://www.medscape.com/s/viewarticle/postpartum-depression-better-remedies-and-now-predictive-2025a1000sby?ecd=WNL_trdalrt_pos1_251022_etid7818741&uac=441406EX&impID=7818741

Seena Elbaum- Doula, Birth Educator, Licensed Social Worker, in Philadelphia, PA, Birthing Mindfully Living Mindfully, grief counseling therapy individual marriage counseling

10/23/2025

LOTS OF PROMISE SURROUNDING POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION
Its scarey, its unpleasant, its more common than you'd think and it's VERY treatable. DROP BY www.seenaelbaumbmlm.com and READ ON
https://www.medscape.com/s/viewarticle/postpartum-depression-better-remedies-and-now-predictive-2025a1000sby?ecd=WNL_trdalrt_pos1_251022_etid7818741&uac=441406EX&impID=7818741

10/21/2025

LETS BE BUILDERS OF THIS!! Whose on board ?
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Ations
Shel Silverstein.

If we meet and I say, "Hi,"
That's a salutation.
If you ask me how I feel,
That's a consideration.
If we stop and talk a while,
That's a conversation.
If we understand each other,
That's a communication.
If we argue, scream and fight,
That's an altercation.
If later we apoligize,
That's reconciliation.
If we help each other home,
That's a cooperation.
And all these actions added up
Make Civilization.
(And if I say this is a wonderful poem,
Is that exaggeration?)

THIS IS WHAT I STRIVE TO BUILD
For myself, my community, my family, my friends, my clients, my life, & ys know what ........ IT IS NOT EASY, BUT IT IS WORTH IT

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10/21/2025

FROM ‘ALL HEALTHY’ Tuesday OCT 21

We came across an amazing story this weekend. In 2001, two doctors at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital were grappling with a high mortality rate in their neonatal intensive care unit when they happened to catch a Formula 1 race on TV. Struck by how efficient the pit crews were, they contacted Ferrari and were invited to Maranello to observe how the team managed pit stops. The experience led them to reimagine their NICU protocols, changes that ultimately saved lives.

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It’s a reminder of two things: inspiration can strike anywhere, and we all have more to learn from one another than we might think.

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Accepting new psychotherapy clients for NOV

10/18/2025

MORNING COLORS OF EARLY AUTUMN





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ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS: psychotherapy, birth education, birth doula

10/17/2025

BIRTH SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS RANGE IN AGE FROM CHILD BEARING TO POST MENOPAUSE

During menopause, women often deal with biological, physical, and emotional issues — to help them lose weight, clinicians need to be supportive and personalize treatment.

10/17/2025

Unsolved Mysteries & Natural Wonder Facts ·
A baby born blue and silent. Doctors frozen in panic. Then one woman said five words that would save 50 million lives."Let's score the baby."It was 1952, inside a New York City delivery room, and Dr. Virginia Apgar had just changed medicine forever—though no one knew it yet.Apgar had dreamed of becoming a surgeon. She had the skill, the drive, and the brilliant mind for it. But in the 1940s, hospital doors stayed locked for women who wanted to hold scalpels. After being told point-blank that no hospital would hire a female surgeon, she made a choice: if they wouldn't let her into the operating room, she'd find another way to save lives.She turned to anesthesiology—and ended up exactly where she was meant to be.Working in Columbia-Presbyterian's maternity ward, Apgar witnessed something that haunted her: newborns dying within minutes of birth, while doctors stood helpless, unsure which babies needed urgent care and which would recover on their own. There was no system. No standard. Just chaos and heartbreak.So one morning over breakfast, she grabbed a napkin and designed a test. Five simple measurements: heart rate, breathing, muscle tone, reflex response, and skin color. Zero to ten points. Two minutes to assess. One score that could mean the difference between life and death.She called it the Apgar Score.Within a decade, nearly every hospital in America was using it. Infant mortality plummeted. Babies who would have been left to die were suddenly being resuscitated. Doctors finally had a universal language for newborn care—and it came from a woman they'd told couldn't be a surgeon.But Apgar didn't stop there. She earned a master's in public health at 50, joined the March of Dimes, and spent the rest of her life fighting for mothers and babies worldwide. She became one of the most powerful voices in maternal and infant health—the job they said she'd never have.When someone asked how she thrived in a world that didn't want her, she smiled and said: "Women are like tea bags—you don't know how strong they are until they're in hot water."Dr. Virginia Apgar died in 1974, but her legacy breathes in every delivery room on Earth. Every two seconds, somewhere in the world, a newborn takes their first breath while someone calls out a score.A score that honors the woman who refused to accept "no"—and who turned rejection into a gift that keeps on giving, one breath at a time.

10/16/2025

Great piece of evidence based science
on COVID vaccines and effects of fetal development

10/12/2025

Some people get high and happy on their favorite red wine; I get my high and happy on seeing potential and growth! Look right in the middle

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Accepting new therapy clients now
Accepting birth education clients for December onward
Accepting birth doula clients for February and on

10/07/2025

Fabulous read

Stress Deprivation in the Perinatal Period by Michel Odent
In the framework of our cultural conditioning, stress has a negative connotation: we must avoid stressful situations. Meanwhile, in the current scientific context, it appears that stress hormones have multiple roles to play and the concept of “stress deprivation” has recently emerged in scholarly articles. We’ll look at birth by pre-labor cesarean as an extreme example of stress deprivation.

Natural childbirth advocate and obstetrician Michel Odent discusses the importance of stress for the developing baby, particularly stress in the form of labor.

09/21/2025

ADDING SOME HEAVEN & EARTH COLOR TO MY DAY & YOURS

Seena Elbaum, founder
Birthing Mindfully Living Mindfully

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ACCEPTING NEW THERAPY CLIENTS
(teens - seniors, individuals & couples)