The Sunny Doula

09/21/2022

We often talk about pregnancy in terms of three trimesters. But after your baby is out in the world, surpriseeee: You have to deal with even more physical and mental changes. Here's what you need to know.

07/19/2022

07/27/2021

Honestly sometimes it feels like much more 🤷🏼‍♀️

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05/30/2021

05/30/2021

05/26/2021

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02/07/2021

Planning on a hospital birth? Remember this position!!

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Here in the US the beds in Labor and delivery are like Transformers in how they can be adapted for mom. This is a great position - lovely open hips, mom can rest easily, her sacrum isn’t restricted in any way.
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Did your L&D nurse help change the bed for different positions for you?
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01/06/2021

Are you planning to diet this year to get your body back after baby?

Can we encourage you not to?

It's not that we want to discourage "healthy eating," just discourage unhealthy dieting. And to discourage the moralizing of food as "good" or "bad" and dismantle the pressure to "get your body back." Food is food.

There's no going back. Another human took up residence in your body and your body was permanently changed. How could it not be? Besides, you don't want to erase the signs that they were there.

Forget getting your body back. You can want strength and health and energy and make choices that can help with such goals but there's no going back. And food isn't good or evil, it is just food.

Respect your body. Respect means caring for it, appreciating it, seeing it, recognizing the work it does, feeding it. You may not be happy with your body, you can have disappointments, you can struggle to love it. But to respect it you have to ask where those thoughts come from and are those values more important than the value your body brings?

We're all in different places in our journey and I won't shame anyone struggling to love or respect their bodies. I hope though that we can each work on living the understanding that we are worthy just the way we are.

I am enough.

You are enough.

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10/25/2020

“This was me tandem feeding two out of three of my triplets in the NICU. Pure magic.”

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10/17/2020

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10/01/2020

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I’m always in awe of this amazing organ and its abilities. Just when you think the placenta can’t get any cooler......
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Did you know by studying the placenta, scientists are hoping to learn more about cancer. The placenta is able to develop in the body without being attacked by the immune system. By studying the placenta, researchers can learn more about how cancer has the ability to grow without an attack from the immune system, just like the placenta.
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And although the placenta develops inside the mother, the father actually helps to create the organ. When the s***m fertilizes the egg, a blastocyst is formed. This then becomes the placenta and the baby.
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The placenta is also not just a passive conduit from mother to fetus. It is able to respond to supply signals arising from the mother and demand signals emanating from the fetus.
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It is an organ that has many jobs, not just 1, unlike other organs. It provides blood, oxygen, nutrients, removes waste etc etc.
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It is THE ONLY ORGAN that we make that releases itself from the body once it’s job is done.
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10/01/2020

09/18/2020

This is so true. Nobody is breastfeeding for any reason other than that their baby is hungry.

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09/15/2020

Black moms are 3 to 4 times more likely to die from pregnancy or childbirth-related causes than white mothers.