Mountainview Birth and Breastfeeding Resources

08/24/2025

She loves making ‘potions’ ❤️ it’s that knowledge lineage they were talking about. retreat

05/28/2025

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Mark your calendars! The NFDEM Board of Directors and Officers will be hosting a LIVE "Town Hall Q&A" for updates about our program, including preceptor on-boarding, new member requirements, credentialing goals and timelines, and to get all your questions answered. If you've been wanting to learn more about the CDEM credential and what our Fellowship offers, you won’t want to miss this!

This event will be hosted via Google Meet, join our Facebook Event for updates as we get closer, or watch here for updates. Looking forward to seeing you there!

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05/23/2025

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In my bodywork and yoga sessions I see TONS of clients that experience super tight upper back, shoulder and neck pain from breastfeeding. Here are a few simple and easy poses I do with them to soft…

05/05/2025

Most of you know it’s the first time I’ve had a whole month off except for Oct last year in which I was recovering from birth so I don’t count it. We have been planning a road trip for months. We headed out early this morning and have reached our first stop only to find out it’s even bigger than we realized! The Archery Hall of Fame is in the biggest Bass Pro in the USA!

04/26/2025

𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰?

In the year 2000 the Term Breech Trial said there was a significant increase in neonatal/perinatal morbidity and mortality for vaginal breech births as opposed to planned cesarean sections.

That publication in particular made a huge impact on breech birth.

Breech vaginal births were largely and swiftly removed as an option(options should never be removed) overnight.

But the Term Breech Trial was flawed.

Over 75% of the deaths reported in the study were 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐂𝐇 𝐕𝐀𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇 𝐈𝐓𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐅.

Despite its huge flaw, institutions and systems continue to coerce parents into cesareans and it's the main mode of delivery today for breech presentation.

-Love,
Flor Cruz

04/16/2025

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03/11/2025

Goodmorning!! If you have time, please go over to NFDEM and Heart the posts to give our page a boost! Thank you so much! ❤️

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02/20/2025

There’s so many more ‘things’ that disrupt normal physiology that are considered routine and no one stops to consider the bigger picture. Had a nurse today pressure the mom to do a glucose check because baby hadn’t latched yet. Twice the machine read error then the lead nurse takes baby from me helping introduce the breast to baby saying it could be not reading because glucose was too low. I said he’s awake and alert!! There’s no way. She took him anyway and of course it was not too low.

01/07/2025

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12/24/2024

Just eat ‘em.

12/05/2024

I was 6 months pregnant here. You can pretty much do whatever you normally would do but things like driving tractors and such are really hard on the round ligaments.

12/02/2024

So. Good.

Some people will tell you that vitamin K isn’t very effective, and I completely disagree.

Vitamin K is VERY effective.

Just like it would be VERY effective to get everyone to take a couple of painkillers before they left home in the mornings.

That would really reduce the number of sick days we lost to headaches, hangovers, period pain and the like.

But that doesn’t make mass medication justifiable, because there are wider issues to take into account.

So yes, vitamin K is very effective when given to newborn babies.

But is it also frustrating that, although only one in several thousand babies would have a problem without it, we don't know enough about which babies would have had a problem without it and which would have been fine.

Because the emphasis has been on the idea that, because it works, we should just give it to all babies.

But this raises some fascinating questions.

Some people will tell you that babies are born with ‘low’ levels of vitamin K, but this is only when you compare them to adults.

It’s possible, and perhaps even likely, that these relatively lower levels benefit newborns in some way.

(My money would be on stem cells, but that's just a researcher's educated guess.)

This is just one of the questions that I have been exploring over the past twenty-five years and which I discuss in my book, Vitamin K and the Newborn.

We need to think more widely about the wider issue, the deeper questions and the bigger picture.

And, as I once wrote,

Part of the solution, I humbly suggest, is to slow or cease our acceptance of the notion that women's and babies' bodies fail so often and so spectacularly, and to be willing to think about how nature, evolution or whatever you believe in might have designed us to land on the earth with what we needed in the first place.

For more information on vitamin K, see www.sarawickham.com/vk