Sage & Krystal Birth Services

08/01/2022

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10/06/2019

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shares: "MAKE YOUR HOSPITAL ROOM WORK FOR YOU!! 💯 .
My friend and I wanted to show you some examples of ways that your hospital bed can transform and assist you with the progression of labor. 🛏
1. Throne/chair position. This is great for people who are laboring down with an epidural, or for people who just need to sit and take a quick break. (Some like to push their babies out sitting upward like this, leaning against the bed, or the lap of their partner sitting behind them).
2. Hands and knees. This is a great position for OP (posterior, and also big) babies/back labor. A lot of laboring patients find hands and knees more comfortable! (Alternating lunges with one leg up, foot on bed in front, creates even more space in the birth canal, and helps baby come down and out.)
3. Side lying with your leg resting in the stirrup. This position is great for opening up the pelvis and allowing the baby to move down. Quick note: I would not feel comfortable with my patient staying in this position/on one side for too long (so it is good to switch sides periodically). I also would be cautious in using this with patients who have an epidural because they may not feel sensations of discomfort if this position is not serving them.
4. Squatting with a squat bar attached. Many facilities have squat bars that attach to beds. Upright positions can help encourage stronger contractions and help move baby down. Quick note: I would have a support person remain at the bedside to ensure that the laboring person does not lose balance. .
Any other ways that you have utilized hospital beds to work FOR you? Let me know! I can think of several more.... 👇🏻👇🏻"

09/23/2019

this is awesome!!

09/20/2019

The baby and her placenta is called the Feto-Placental Unit, and blood circulates within that unit while she is growing in the womb. In the middle of your pregnancy, because the placenta is almost as big as the baby, blood is equally distributed between the two. Gradually, the baby gets bigger than the placenta, so that by the end of the pregnancy, the baby's body holds two thirds of her blood, and the placenta holds one third.

On the onset of birth, a powerful surge of placental transfusion to the baby begins. If you have seen birth photos, you can tell from an engorged cord that the birth has just occurred. Within twenty minutes, the natural transfusion has occurred and most cords are limp and drained.

What happens with practice of immediate cord cutting is that body's oxygen carrying capacity is significantly diminished.

In a grown-up body, we have a name for this kind of condition. A loss of thirty to forty percent of your total blood volume is a called a Class 3 Hemorrhagic Shock. It is an emergency, with the risk of damaging tissues, organs and brain cells for the lack of this vital oxygen. The treatment for this is a blood transfusion.

There is rarely a reason to immediately clamp and cut the cord. Even a baby requiring resuscitation will significantly benefit from being left attached to the cord/placenta during rescue procedures and nearly all procedures can and should be done bedside, with an intact cord.

Immediate cord clamping isn’t the physiologic norm and should be treated as the modern medical experiment that it is.

07/15/2019

This is a beautiful set of birth progression photos

Nightfall had come.. after Tahja rested we walked the neighborhood. She remained silent and focused as labor had really picked up. Tahja remained in her zone, feeling safe and supported throughout... get your tissues out, as you witness God's work in action..the birth of baby Xionna was simply beautiful, in every way. THANK YOU TAHJA AND DENZEL for allowing me to share your intimate birth story with the world, as we strive to educate about midwifery care, home birth as a safe for low risk women, improve outcomes for black women, and empower all women to take charge of their bodies and birthing experiences. Love you all, to the moon and back!
Want to help change the narrative surrounding home birth? Feel free to share with your friends.

07/15/2019

Women are amazing!

LOOK AT THAT CONTRACTION THO 😱 The human body is INCREDIBLE. It’s irrelevant how it looks- it’s whole function is just to, well, function. And if your body did not or could not birth vaginally, don’t think you are less rad somehow. Your organs were set outside your body, your baby came out through your stomach, and after it was all put back together your body healed itself back up because you are a goddamn GODDESS. 😍 Love you mamas. H/t Meredith Westin Photography: Birth Stories and Films with
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My business partner Gina () is the best doula I know. We had the privilege of attending two births together in the last week and I am always so impressed by how invested, intuitive, and fun she is at births. In this photograph, she’s sitting with our client as she works through contractions on our favorite labor spot: the dilation station (also known as the toilet! 🤣). Her gentle touch let our client know that she was supported, and her words reminded our client to keep her body soft and her shoulders relaxed.
Let’s make this a doula appreciation post! Who was your doula? What’s something about them that will always stick with you?

07/08/2019

06/30/2019

This is a great graphic

Totally love this beautiful artwork by for a project with Birth Internationaldemonstrating different ways to be active, comfortable and work with your body during labour.

06/27/2019

Awesome Doc!!

Another amazing obstetrician in action. Another hospital birth happening out-of-the-bed. Dr. White is the bee’s knees. 🙌 Parkside Ob-Gyn

06/21/2019

05/26/2019

"This is one of many Spinning Babies® positions to help the baby down the pelvis. It’s called Walcher's Maneuver. I get so happy when I see midwives in hospitals using these techniques. Many tend to go straight to more drugs to get stronger contractions to “force” the baby out, but when it’s stuck the baby don’t need more pressure but a better position in the pelvis. After a long birth, the doctor came in and talked to the mum about the possibility of a cesarian. She really wanted a vaginal birth and asked the midwife if there was anything else they could try. She was fully dilated but the baby was too high. They first tried a Spinning Babies technique called Sidelying Release but it didn’t work so the midwife made her lay on the bed like this. Two contractions and suddenly we could hear a new sound from her moaning, and her belly changed its form. 5 minutes later a beautiful baby was born. After attending a Spinning Babies® Workshop with Birthsupport.NL, I saw the birthing process with new eyes. I’m hoping more midwives could get the chance to learn these positions!" - Fødselsfotografen

More on Walcher's: bit.ly/SpBWB

11/25/2017

Great visual for laboring positions :)

09/06/2017

Wow birth is awesome!!

08/13/2017