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This season is a mixed bag for many, these plants can support you in navigating the ebb and flow of your own energy and others. Plant medicine is strong medicine!

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Attention new moms: Come join us in October for a playful, light-hearted and feel-good class for Mamas and pre-crawling babies on Sunday afternoons! We will focus on community building through sharing our experiences of new motherhood while also bonding with our babies and getting to know our beautiful new bodies. Balancing both restorative core movements and relaxing breathing techniques/movements, we hope you leave feeling empowered and at ease in this transitional phase of life. During class, Sometimes wearing baby will feel better and sometimes placing baby on a soft blanket will feel like just enough space for mama to lighten her load a little - the choice is yours! We hope to see you there!
Registration is OPEN: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=164&stype=-8&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000227

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Walk for your midwife, walk for your community.

There aren’t enough midwives to meet the needs of homebirth families in NC.

We want insurance coverage for people choosing to birth at home, system integration so folks can safely utilize resources and higher levels of care when needed, and the ability to practice midwifery without the threat of prosecution.

You can donate to support our legislative efforts. Link in stories.

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2022 Walk for Midwives

Dear ILM Birth clients and friends,

Licensing CPMs in NC is a matter that is very close to my heart. This will expand access to high quality care for many families. 2023 is a critical year for getting a licensure bill passed in the legislature, and we are working hard to raise the money to fund navigating the political system and process to bring our licensure efforts to fruition.

The 2022 Walk for Midwives is fast approaching! This is an important fundraiser, if you are able to contribute please click the link provided to make a donation toward my fundraising goal. Check out the main Fundraising page to see other ways to participate! I would love to see your beautiful faces at the in person Walk event in Wilmington (see site for info). Let me know if you have any questions!

With gratitude~Nicole

2022 Walk for Midwives  

It time to plan for the annual Walk for Midwives!! Join this call to learn more about how you can help. This is a critical fundraising event for our legislative efforts toward CPM licensure and expanding access to midwifery care here is NC.

If you have interest in helping to organize a walk in your region, this is the call for you! We'd love for you to join us on Monday 3/21!

I LOVE affirmations. Centering throughout pregnancy, grounding during labor and birth. If a client has a list of affirmations they have been working with in pregnancy there usually comes a time in labor where I will read out and pour those affirmations into the birthing person as they are working intensely and fill them up with positive affirmation of their ability and the incredible work they are doing.

The birth of your baby can be an incredibly empowering experience. Birth affirmations are designed to help give you the confidence and strength you need during the birthing process.

They also help to remind you of your innate strength and the beautiful miracle of birth !

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Raise funds for expanded access to midwifery care in NC and doula support for birthing families by playing soccer and/or feasting on delicious oysters!! I'll be there, will you?!?

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Embracing normal and reducing risk in community settings.....

Posted • What are some signs your csection scar needs mobilization??

If you are experiencing low back pain, it could be from adhesions in your incision site pulling towards the front. This be may put more strain on the low back = discomfort or pain.

Pain with deep thrusting or bladder frequency could be from your incision adhering to internal pelvic organs!

Shelf like appearance of your scar could be a external sign that your scar is adhered to surrounding structures. Remember, a csection cuts through 7 layers!!

And then having issues with core activation or feeling connected w your core can be another sign!

Join us Tuesday night, November 2nd at 730pm EST for a csection scar mobilization webinar with ! The webinar will break down the why and how of scar mobilization. Recording will be available!

Sign up at mamastefit.com/webinars

Doula Support Scholarship - Cape Fear Area Doulas

Doula Support Scholarship applications are now available!

Doula Support Scholarship - Cape Fear Area Doulas As doulas, our goal is to provide non-biased, evidence-based support and education during pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. Through the CFAD Doula Support Scholarship, we provide birth doula support services to local pregnant people in need. We sincerely believe that doula access is a rep...

The data is clear.....

MIDWIVES MAKE A DIFFERENCE! We will let the data speak for itself!

Tell me you are a birth worker without telling me you are a birth worker 😉

Have you experienced community based (home or birth center) midwifery care? We would love to hear about it! Was it different than hospital based perinatal care you have received? How did the costs compare? Share your story, inquiring minds want to know!

The rainy day was perfect for digging into some Fall cleaning and organizing. I love how this home office space is coming together, and once I am able to spackle and paint the walls it will all become a little more permanent.

What would you like developing a relationship with your care provider to look like?

Pregnant people should not feel like they are on a conveyor belt of care or that they have to fight for respectful care.

Just a few of the things I pack up to support physiological birth. A TENS unit for back labor, a length of cloth to wrap or jiggle, and different sized peanut balls for beneficial resting/positioning and support to encourage fetal rotation.

Tarin and I participated in many Breastfeeding photo shoots with PCBP, it is a long standing tradition in our community. This pic was taken 9 years ago with Dana Jackson Photography , one of the many talented photographers that have participated.

Willow Creek Photography is the photographer for this session, she is awesome!! Sign up if you have a nursling, you won't regret it!

Link to register:

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Tarin and I participated in so many Breastfeeding photo shoots with PCBP! The tradition is long and string in this community. Sign up, you won't regret it!




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Certified Professional Midwives being licensed to provide perinatal care in NC is a key answer in solving our states perinatal crisis. We currently have an infuriating lack of access to quality care and unacceptable rates of morbidity and mortality among birthing people and their babies in NC.

Share your experience, add your data, let's get real and tell these folks what trying to get quality perinatal care in rural NC really looks like!

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I am proud to present the next step in my journey, ILM Birth!

Check out the website (you might recognize some faces!), spread the word to your friends, and stay tuned for regular info on resources, remedies, and relaxation tools to help you navigate your perinatal journey.

https://ilmbirth.com/

Home » ILM Birth Hello, and welcome! My name is Nicole Havelka, and I have been working professionally in the Southeast North Carolina perinatal care system for over a decade.  Whether you are just starting to consider pregnancy or you are well on your way to meeting your newest family member, I am confident that I...

ILM Birth updated their website address.

ILM Birth updated their website address.

Saying it's been a long time would be an understatement, but I have been busy finishing up some big life goals and am SO close to unveiling my business rebrand and new website!! While you wait just a bit longer, check out this podcast I just found.....

Have you ever wondered what the Newborn Screen is, and why it is offered in both the hospital and community birth setting? These Midwives do an amazing job of efficiently explaining the ins and outs of the newborn screen....

https://open.spotify.com/episode/08a0yVAGW96ss9KRKQgxgo?si=lp79nMo5TX-OCTS3es3riQ&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1

Why have a doula if you are planning on having a c-section?

Great question! As trained support professionals, we can help the people and families we work with be informed of their options regarding their cesarean birth such as a family-centered c-section, clear or lowered drape, delayed cord clamping, and skin-to-skin in the operating room. When we are permitted to be in the operating room, we can talk the client through what is happening as their baby is being born. We can help with initiating bonding with the baby, breastfeeding or infant feeding, and answer questions for the client and their partner if present. In the event that the baby needs additional support, we can stay with the birthing person so they are not alone if their partner goes with the baby to NICU.

Even if you intend to have a cesarean birth in September thru December 2021 and are in need of a doula, we encourage you to apply for our scholarship. Preference for scholarship awards will be given to Black and Brown birthing people and those from marginalized communities, though anyone pregnant is welcome to apply.

TO APPLY: capefearareadoulas.org/scholarship

Please help us spread the word! Applications are open through 7/14/2021.

SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN!

We invite any pregnant people in the Cape Fear area in need of doula support they would not be able to afford otherwise to apply for the Scholarship for Families. Preference for awards will be given to Black and Brown birthing people and those from marginalized communities.

APPLY HERE until 7/14/2021: capefearareadoulas.org/scholarship

Through fundraising and generous contributions to our nonprofit organization, CFAD awards scholarships to low-income local families or pregnant people in need. These scholarships provide the pregnant person with professional labor and birth doula support. Help us spread the word about our scholarship, and please consider donating at the link above if you would like to support our ongoing efforts to provide future scholarships to members of our community.

Celebrate International Day of the Midwife

NC Midwives need your support!

Celebrate the International Day of the Midwife (May 5th) by supporting expanded access to Midwifery care in NC.

From the link below, click "How do I Participate" to become a participant/walker OR click "Midwives for All" for raffle entries, to make a pledge to a participant, or straight up donate! Many thanks in advance!

Celebrate International Day of the Midwife  

Last day to apply for the CFAD Scholarship for Families!

LAST DAY TO APPLY! Today, January 20th, is the last day to apply for the CFAD Scholarship for Families. We invite any local pregnant people in the Cape Fear area in need of doula support they would not be able to afford otherwise to apply for the Scholarship for Families.

APPLY HERE through 1/20/2021: capefearareadoulas.org/scholarship

CFAD Doula Scholarship for Families applications are open!!

SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN!

We invite any local pregnant people in the Cape Fear area in need of doula support they would not be able to afford otherwise to apply for the Scholarship for Families.

APPLY HERE until 1/20/2021: capefearareadoulas.org/scholarship

Through fundraising and generous contributions to our nonprofit organization, CFAD awards scholarships to low-income local families or pregnant people in need. These scholarships provide the pregnant person with professional labor and birth doula support. Help us spread the word about our scholarship, and please consider donating at the link above if you would like to support our ongoing efforts to provide future scholarships to members of our community.

Celebrate NATIVE BREASTFEEDING WEEK - August 9-15

We are interested in making these materials available to families in the preferred languages. If you are interested in helping, please email Erika at [email protected]

Doula restrictions have been lifted at NHRMC!!

Happy Day to all of those here and gone that someone out there considers their Dad or father figure 💜

Community update: a Nurse Manager on Labor and Delivery has confirmed that at this time doulas ARE able to support client's in the hospital, in addition to the birthing person's partner. Doulas must present proof of being a doula, I am packing my training certificates in my hospital bag.