Hearth & Haven Home Birth

09/07/2025

Sweet babes Evren and Teya hanging out with us at clinic!

09/07/2025

Welcome baby Evren! We had a lovely day of walks, naps, patience, tincture of time, and then when he was persuaded to come out and meet us, he was quick about it! He weighed 9lbs 2ounces and joins his two big sisters and a lot of goats friends. :) Congratulations Alana and KC!

09/06/2025

A great opportunity if anyone is interested in birth assisting!

Calling all peeps who have considered interest in birthwork and looking for a flexible side hustle!! Peninsula Midwives is looking to add to our birth assistants and wanted to put out a broader call out into the community! I'm hosting a Q&A alongside my longtime birth assistant Claire to help fliah out some folks who are interested in training in this work. The training is DOE. Call schedule is set monthly and can be flexible. This work is a great option for someone either with some experience in healthcare or attending births, but this is not a requirement. Please join us, and please spread the word!!!

08/28/2025

Welcome baby Jettson! His strong mama worked so long and hard to get him here, if perseverance was an award, she’d win it. After a change of venue and plans, she kept her positive spirit. Baby Jett had a rough ride out and had meconium aspiration at birth, but after some respiratory support for a few days, he came home and is growing like a w**d! He weighed 8lb 1oz, and is very loved by his big sister Violet. Congratulations Haley and Donavin!

08/28/2025

Welcome baby Asher! She kept us guessing with a couple trial runs of labor, and then she came out so quickly once she was convinced it was go time. She weighed 8 1/2 pounds, and is a welcome addition to her family of big brothers! Congratulations Kat and John on your beautiful girl!

08/28/2025

Baby merch in the wild! How cute is little Henley?

08/28/2025

When a client lets you pick some gorgeous lemon verbena from their beautiful garden and take it home to dry. 🥰

08/24/2025

08/24/2025

Baby day at clinic! Graduated sweet boys Fisher and Levi and their lovely families, it’s not goodbye, just see you later! 💜 and Harper had some pointers for me. 🤷🏼‍♀️😊

08/18/2025

So true!

08/18/2025

✨Breathing support ✨

In the uterus your baby is completely dependent on the placenta to provide oxygenation through the umbilical cord.

Your baby is swimming in amniotic fluid and needs to clear that fluid to make room for air once born.

Most babies born vaginally will have no issues in doing this, they will let out a big cry and the pressure from that inhalation forces fluid in the lungs to move out into the tissues and let air in.

As the placenta stops pulsating to your baby and inhalation begins the reduced pressure will cause 3 shunts in the heart to close. These were alternate paths for blood flow while your baby is in the uterus and they are not needed after birth.

At times this transition can be delayed and that can be due to many things such as maternal medications, poor placental function etc.

So what do we do as midwives?

First we stimulate give bub a nice rub, ask mum to blow on the face to try and initiate a cry if these aren't
working we go straight to a bag and mask.

If you think of the lungs as 2 flat balloons.
We all know how hard it is to get that first breath into a flat balloon and once there is a little air in there the balloon inflates a lot easier.

Putting it simply that is what the bag and mask does, it pushes air into your baby’s lungs to inflate the “balloons” (lungs) and makes it a whole lot easier to take that first breath.

Keeping the CORD INTACT is a resuscitation technique on its own, research has shown babies with delayed cord clamping started to breathe and establish regular breathing earlier then babies who had early cord clamping.

In Australia it's rare at the moment for resuscitation to take place by the bedside in a hospital setting. At home births this can easily be achieved as you can see in the above photo.

Midwives : 👏
📷 : Emma-Jean Photography ♥️
✨ Words and informative Repost by Peace with birth ✨