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05/20/2018

Hospital stops telling women to lie on their backs and “push” during childbirth, reduces instances of severe vaginal tearing from 7% to 1% Nine in ten women suffer some form of vaginal tearing during childbirth. In severe cases, they are left to suffer from incontinence and lifelong nerve proble...

05/08/2018

This birth talk recently makes me want to put this out there for you all.... PLEASE do NOT have someone in your birth space that makes you feel uncomfortable. I am talking your parents, his parent's, siblings, staff, midwifes , OBs ect..
The birth of your baby isn't about them and you have the right to say no.

Some of you may have known I was a birth photographer before starting the Australian Breastfeeding Project. I have been at many births and have witnessed a woman's body stopping labour and start closing her body due to feeling uncomfortable with one person.

This is a primal instinct, imagine a cow in a field that notices a predator (therefore feeling unsafe), her body will stop labour to get somewhere safe.

No matter whose feelings you hurt this could dramatically impact your birth.

The health of you and your baby and the beginning of your breastfeeding journey is important. It is not worth compromising.

Sarah ###

Photo by Sarah Murnane

12/31/2017

{Please comment and share so that this gets seen near and far!}

This is not how I wanted to end 2017...and yet I've been banned again. And that beautiful video I created 7 months ago has been deleted. The video that was shared and viewed around the world. Over 100 million views. Facebook, we are far more than usernames and passwords. We are living and breathing human beings, with real bodies, that were ALL born from real women. Have we reached a point in our obsession with apps and usernames that we've forgotten that behind our pixelated screens are real bodies that breathe and beat and love and birth and eventually die?

Facebook, LIFE should never be against your community standards.

Please read and share. If anyone has a contact at FB, please message me. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

https://www.monetnicole.com/stories/life-is-not-against-community-standards

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09/16/2017

"No one really talks about those moments after, where your dignity is gone..."

09/15/2017

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