RhieBirth

06/19/2024

06/15/2024

🗣️ Spread the word: "The University of Wisconsin-Madison Prevention Research Center is looking for people to participate in a research study to understand what a doula program for people in prison or jail should look like.

It will center the lived experiences and expertise of doulas and people who were incarcerated in Wisconsin during their pregnancy.

The goal of the project is to co-design a Wisconsin doula project for people who are pregnant or give birth while they are in jail or prison."

Participants from all over the state are welcome.

06/11/2024

Barriers to doula work exists, while we are tirelessly working on solutions, lets be open about the barriers, what we work against and the resilience we show when called to becoming a doula.

05/30/2024

Something’s brewing!

06/15/2020

The work that SCIO does in this community is important! Serving our neighbors in need.
Please take a look at the auction, and share this post!!

03/20/2018

Researchers have identified two proteins in a fetus' lungs responsible for initiating the labor process, providing potential new targets for preventing preterm birth. They discovered that the proteins SRC-1 and SRC-2 activate genes inside the fetus' lungs near full term, leading to an inflammatory r...

03/19/2018

Many mothers-to-be worry about the umbilical cord around their baby’s neck. Here are 9 interesting facts about a nuchal cord, which may surprise you.

02/27/2018

11/22/2017

11/15/2017

This is cool!!

A study carefully documents newborns’ instinctual behaviors in the first hour outside the womb, observations that paint a picture of what babies might need in the moments after birth.

09/27/2017

07/18/2017

You are so excited! You are pregnant and you know you want an experience different from all the stories you've heard growing up. You want a midwife. That is awesome. Knowing what kind of care provider you feel most comfortable with is undeniably the best thing going into birth for the first

06/26/2017

06/25/2017

The burdens American parents place on themselves are often unwarranted.

06/01/2017

05/28/2017

My name is Rhie Lorenz. I am the mother of 4 grown children and blessed with 4 grandchildren! When I was 27 a friend suggested I might be well suited to work as a  midwife. I didn't know midwifery was a possibility, I thought everyone had their baby in a hospital with a doctor, I had no idea it c...

04/29/2017

For a good 20 years, the American Academy of Pediatrics has advised that parents avoid feeding solid food before babies reach the age of 4 months. That suggestion was revised last year, and parents are now being encouraged to provide nothing except breast milk until the baby reaches six months.

04/21/2017

Fetal cells persist in mothers, healing them well into old age.

04/14/2017

Here are 9 amazing facts about placentas.
You may not have taken a lot of time to think about placentas, let alone know what they look like. Not only are they fascinating organs, they can actually be beautiful.

In 1559, a man named Realdus Columbus called it placenta after the Latin word for “c...

03/17/2017

As we become parents we are bombarded by the idea that we need so many things for our new baby. Like many other things, having a baby has become a profitable industry for some people. And why wouldn’t it? With hundreds of babies being born every day, these companies have a guaranteed clientele base....

12/13/2016

Rather than colic reflecting digestive pain, as has often been assumed, we propose that it could be fear.