Labor Enabler

08/22/2025

08/05/2025

Love sharing space with these humans. Working hard every day to educate, empower, and encourage others. To build people up and remind them of their rights and autonomy. Build your team. Don’t settle.

08/02/2025

AJOG Surgeons Corner: Vaginal Clamping of Uterine Arteries: A Temporary Intervention to Stop Bleeding in Postpartum Hemorrhage https://ow.ly/2c5i50WoKEz American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists - ACOG Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine Royal Aust & NZ College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists RANZCOG Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists RCOG

07/24/2025

AJOG Expert Review in Labor: A critical evaluation of the external and internal maneuvers for resolution of shoulder dystocia - All-fours position and knee-chest position
A, All-fours position (knee-hands position). The mother is supported by her hands and knees. The hips are semiflexed. The spine is horizontal. B, Knee-chest position. The mother is supported by her forearms and knees. Hence, the hips are more flexed to simulate a reverse McRoberts maneuver. The spine is downward toward the head. https://ow.ly/EJis50Rm3gE American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists - ACOG Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine American College of Nurse-Midwives Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists RCOG

07/22/2025

Starting August 1, 2025 The Best Nest Portraits will be offering Lifestyle Newborn sessions in your home! These are great for families who want to capture those early days but aren't necessarily a fan of those super posed/styled studio images.

I will be offering 5 of these sessions at a discounted rate so if you know anyone who is expecting tag them here so they can follow and be in the know in a couple weeks when I release those specials!

07/09/2025

"Midwifery models of care are models of care in which the main care providers for women and newborns, starting from pre-pregnancy and continuing all the way through the postnatal period, are educated, licensed, regulated midwives who autonomously provide and coordinate respectful, high- quality care across their full scope of practice, using an approach that is aligned with the midwifery philosophy of care, which:

i. promotes a person-centred approach to care;
ii. values the woman–midwife relationship and partnership;
iii. optimizes physiological, biological, psychological, social and cultural processes; and iv. uses interventions only when indicated.
In midwifery models of care, midwives provide integrated care, addressing the needs of each individual woman and newborn, within functional and enabling health systems, equipped with necessary resources and streamlined consultation and referral processes. They collaborate within networks of care as part of interdisciplinary teams characterized by equality, trust and respect. This approach guarantees that every woman and newborn receives personalized care, tailored to their health needs.

Midwifery models of care are adaptable to all levels of care and contexts, including home-, community- and hospital-based settings; the public and private sectors and public–private partnerships; resource-constrained environments; and humanitarian and crisis settings. This ensures wide accessibility, equity and relevance across different cultural contexts for women, newborns, partners, families and communities."

Read More: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240098268

07/05/2025

New family tradition. Postino on the fourth.

07/04/2025

AJOG Expert Review in Labor: Water birth: a systematic review and meta-analysis of maternal and neonatal outcomes https://ow.ly/nr7O50R9Nzi

06/28/2025

I love these people so very much. TLC Doula Group is more than my co-workers, they are family. Overy 20 years working as a doula and I can’t imagine being anywhere else. The world has kept my feet on this path so that I can be in this moment. I wouldn’t change a thing.

06/10/2025