Wendy B the Doula

03/01/2025

Hey guys look what I have been up to!!! I am Body Ready Method Certified!!! Whoop Whoop. I cannot wait to use all my new tools on Mama's for a more easeful pregnancy, birth and postpartum period!!! Lets chat if this applies to you!

10/17/2024

Good to know!

08/16/2024

Keep an eye out for depression if you have had a cesarean!

Many studies show an increase in postpartum depression (PPD) and PTSD in women who have had a cesarean section.

Postpartum PTSD and/or depression can lead to poorer outcomes within the mother-child relationship as well as other serious and threatening effects for both mother and baby.

With the c-section rate of developed countries sitting between 28%-32%, the rate of PPD and postpartum PTSD reflects the cesarean rate.

Read more here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9025262/

11/13/2022

100%!

(As someone who's raised 3 into adulthood and couldn't be closer to them), please don't buy into all those guilt-inducing "you'd better savor every moment" messages out there!

09/09/2022

The Queen helped Princess Diana and Kate Middleton to breastfeed their children by rebelling when she became a mother to start a brand new tradition.

09/08/2022

You can do it too!

Queen Elizabeth after her fourth Homebirth

Her Majesty was the first royal woman to have her husband accompany her at childbirth when she welcomed her fourth child Prince Edward with Prince Philip present.
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"The Queen, by then aged 37, had asked him to be there; she'd been keenly reading women's magazines that stressed the importance of involving fathers in childbirth and had become fascinated by the idea. Thus Philip became the first royal father in modern history to witness the birth of his child.”
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Like her mother, the Queen gave birth to her first child, Prince Charles, at home via caesarean, after a 30 hour labor, but went on to have three VBACs although with scopolamine.
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Eventually Charles was born by a Caesarean section in a music room in Buckingham Palace which had been converted into a theatre. She was attended by Obstetricians Sir William Gilliatt and Sir John Peel, and also midwife Helen Rowe, who was thought to be present for all the births. Caesarean sections were also less common in the general public at that time; in the 1950s only around 3% were caesarean section. It would have been of some concern that the Queen required one.
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The midwife Helen Rowe was known to be present as letters written to her by the Queen were discovered after her death. There is an irony in this as, in 1970, Sir John Peel, the queen’s obstetrician, was lead author of the report “Domiciliary midwifery and maternity bed needs”, which recommended 100% of births should be in a hospital.
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There have been considerable changes that have taken place in maternity services since the births of the Queen’s children. The accessibility of research and information is only one thing! The Queen, in all her experiences as a woman and mother in the role, has paved the way for royal births to be different and opened the door for many of her subjects to challenge the status quo at the time. The importance of looking back in history to see how we have got to where we are should not be overlooked and I challenge others to investigate history of our profession over the past 70 years.
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08/31/2022

September happenings!