Hanna Russo Birth Doula

24/01/2025

We love pets at home-births! This was his first homebrith experience and he was quiet involved and supportive 🥰🐾

09/01/2025

Skin-to-skin contact during a C-section, offers numerous benefits for both the mother.

Baby benefits:

*Stabilizes Vital Signs:
• Improves heart rate, breathing, and oxygen levels.
• Helps regulate body temperature.
*Promotes Bonding:
• Strengthens the emotional connection between the baby and parent.
• Reduces stress and crying in newborns.
*Encourages Breastfeeding:
• Triggers rooting and sucking reflexes, making it easier to initiate breastfeeding.
• Increases the likelihood of exclusive breastfeeding.
*Boosts Immunity:
• Exposure to the mother’s microbiome enhances the baby’s immune system.
*Improves Blood Sugar Levels:
• Helps stabilize glucose levels, especially in babies at risk of hypoglycemia.
Benefits for mom:

*Enhances Bonding and Confidence:
• Releases oxytocin, the “love hormone,” fostering emotional attachment.
• Increases confidence in caring for the baby.
*Promotes Healing:
• Encourages uterine contraction and reduces postpartum bleeding through oxytocin release.
*Reduces Stress:
• Lowers cortisol levels, improving emotional well-being.
*Supports Breastfeeding:
• Encourages milk production and let-down reflex. Also lots of babies naturally do breast crawl and with some help latch and start nursing too!! We love supporting whatever birth you want, need or get;)
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01/01/2025

Year end recap!! Check out our fb for the whole story!!!

21/12/2024

Can’t wait to meet all these tiny Christmas babies coming🌲❤️

07/12/2024

Sometimes labor can look like this❤️

04/12/2024

Some super fun placenta art for the evening!

02/12/2024

And the first December baby is here. Promptly on his due date🥳💙

18/11/2024

Just over here waiting on our December babies 🤩👶🏼🌲

13/11/2024

what was your favorite affirmation in labor?!? I trust my body to know what to do.
I am strong, capable, and ready for this birth.
Every contraction brings me closer to meeting my baby.
I am open to the experience of birth, trusting it will unfold as it needs to.
I am calm, focused, and relaxed.
My body is powerful and perfectly designed for birth.
With each breath, I bring peace and strength to my body.
I trust the process and surrender to the rhythm of birth.
I welcome the sensations of labor with trust and confidence.
I am in control of my body and my birth.

Each wave of pain helps me move closer to my baby.
I release any tension and allow my body to relax with each contraction.
I trust my body to manage the sensations of birth.
I am resilient, and I can handle whatever comes.
I breathe deeply and release fear with each breath.
My body is doing exactly what it needs to do.
I trust that my body is capable of handling this.
I can embrace discomfort as part of the journey.
I trust that my body knows how to birth my baby.
I am stronger than any challenge that comes my way.
Affirmations for Connection with Baby:
I am deeply connected to my baby, and we are in this together.
I welcome my baby into the world with love and joy.
My baby is safe, strong, and ready to be born.
I am surrounded by love and support as I birth my baby.
I trust my baby to guide me through the birth process.
Every breath brings me closer to meeting my precious child.
My baby is coming in the perfect time and in the perfect way.
I am ready to meet my baby, and we are both strong.
I trust that everything is unfolding as it should.
I am grateful for this beautiful, transformative experience.

27/10/2024

If you know the Donn family/Christie Donn then maybe you've heard they welcomed their 4th kid into the world on saturday! Would love to show them some amazing postpartum support by bringing them a meal or getting them a gift card so that Christie can try to rest and relax in her postpartum time!!

The Donn family welcomed Amara 10/26 at 8lb 11oz into their family! As they adjust to life with 4 kids we would love to be able to help provide some postpartum support in the form of meals, gift cards or $ to get settled!