Sweet Little Bundles Birth Services

07/24/2025

Amazing 💜💜

Fun facts

The “Balia” was the "other mother" who breast-fed a newborn, on hire. In past centuries in Sicily, these wet nurses were sought by families who had suffered the death of young mothers during childbirth, the mother was unable to breastfeed because she suffered from a certain illness, or because her breasts simply had not produced milk. Breastfeeding a baby was of enormous importance for a healthy and caring upbringing of a child.
Generally the woman who was chosen as a wet nurse had the right to three complete meals a day (because it was important for her to stay healthy), clean linen and a daily wage of one lira.

07/01/2025

Very helpful! Thank you Babies in Common

06/17/2025

My second epidural really screwed up my back further than it already was. I regret it. But I know that some people need it and that’s OK too. But this is still important information to know.

Getting the epidural ruined my back.

And nobody warned me about that part.

They talked about the needle.
They talked about the relief.
They talked about the risks.
But no one mentioned the pain that lingers long after the baby’s here.

Some days it aches out of nowhere.
Some nights I can’t sleep from the pressure.
And don’t even ask me to bend a certain way,
I’ll feel that deep, sharp reminder of what I went through.

It’s wild how we walk around with these invisible battle wounds from birth.
Smiling. Rocking babies.
While our bodies are still screaming for rest, healing, and acknowledgment.

Motherhood doesn’t just change your life,
It changes your spine, your muscles, your nerves…
And sometimes, it never goes back.

So if you’ve been feeling that pain too,
You’re not imagining it.
You’re not being dramatic.
You’re not alone.

This is the side of childbirth they don’t put in the pamphlet.

©️Caty Sanders

06/11/2025

Fascinating

During pregnancy, fetal cells migrate out of the womb and into a mother’s heart, liver, lung, kidney, brain, and more. They could shape moms’ health for a lifetime, Katherine J. Wu reported in 2024:⁠ https://theatln.tc/qozjIdje
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The presence of these cells, known as microchimerism, is thought to affect every person who has carried an embryo, even if briefly, and anyone who has ever inhabited a womb. The cross-generational transfers are bidirectional—as fetal cells cross the placenta into maternal tissues, a small number of maternal cells migrate into fetal tissues, where they can persist into adulthood. ⁠
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Genetic swaps, then, might occur several times throughout a life. Some researchers believe that people may be miniature mosaics of many of their relatives, via chains of pregnancy: their older siblings, perhaps, or their maternal grandmother, or any aunts and uncles their grandmother might have conceived before their mother was born. “It’s like you carry your entire family inside of you,” Francisco Úbeda de Torres, an evolutionary biologist at the Royal Holloway University of London, told Wu.⁠
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Some scientists have argued that cells so sparse and inconsistent couldn’t possibly have meaningful effects. Even among microchimerism researchers, hypotheses about what these cells do—if anything at all—remain “highly controversial,” Sing Sing Way, an immunologist and a pediatrician at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, told Wu. But many experts contend that microchimeric cells aren’t just passive passengers. They are genetically distinct entities. And they might hold sway over many aspects of health: our susceptibility to infectious or autoimmune disease, the success of pregnancies, maybe even behavior. ⁠
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If these cells turn out to be as important as some scientists believe they are, they might be one of the most underappreciated architects of human life, Wu writes.

06/08/2025

This is so beautiful!!! I've been at births where siblings were present, it's such a blessing!! ❤💜💙

05/24/2025

04/27/2025

Horrifying, and not as uncommon as people like to think. Leave your baby boys alone.

Everything changed for a couple after they agreed to have their newborn son circumcised, a procedure many would call routine.

04/22/2025

Why are so many providers putting their hands inside the va**na during birth—when it’s not even needed?

Let’s call it what it is:
A habit. A reflex. A culture of control—not support.

Birth isn’t a machine that needs constant adjustment. It’s not a fire you need to poke.
It’s a physiological process. And most of the time? It works better when left alone.

But providers are trained to manage birth—not witness it.
They’re taught to:
• Check and re-check dilation
• “Guard” the perineum
• Move the cervix
• Direct pushing
• Speed things up

They’re trained to reach in, just in case.
To do something—so they can say they were active, involved, in control.

But here’s the truth:
Uninvited hands can interrupt the process they claim to be helping.

They can:
• Disrupt hormones
• Create pain
• Break focus
• Trigger trauma
• Undermine the birthing person’s power

And unless there’s a true emergency or informed consent is clearly given?
Hands off. Full stop.

Because the va**na isn’t a project.
The body isn’t broken.
And birth doesn’t need “managing”—it needs respect.

Let the hands stay outside.
Let the power stay inside.

-Love,
Flor Cruz
Badassmotherbirther

01/29/2025

Fascinating 🩷

During pregnancy, fetal cells migrate out of the womb and into a mother’s heart, liver, lung, kidney, brain, and more. They could shape moms’ health for a lifetime, Katherine J. Wu reported in 2024:⁠ https://theatln.tc/wpcelUjO
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The presence of these cells, known as microchimerism, is thought to affect every person who has carried an embryo, even if briefly, and anyone who has ever inhabited a womb. The cross-generational transfers are bidirectional—as fetal cells cross the placenta into maternal tissues, a small number of maternal cells migrate into fetal tissues, where they can persist into adulthood. ⁠
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Genetic swaps, then, might occur several times throughout a life. Some researchers believe that people may be miniature mosaics of many of their relatives, via chains of pregnancy: their older siblings, perhaps, or their maternal grandmother, or any aunts and uncles their grandmother might have conceived before their mother was born. “It’s like you carry your entire family inside of you,” Francisco Úbeda de Torres, an evolutionary biologist at the Royal Holloway University of London, told Wu.⁠
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Some scientists have argued that cells so sparse and inconsistent couldn’t possibly have meaningful effects. Even among microchimerism researchers, hypotheses about what these cells do—if anything at all—remain “highly controversial,” Sing Sing Way, an immunologist and a pediatrician at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, told Wu. But many experts contend that microchimeric cells aren’t just passive passengers. They are genetically distinct entities. And they might hold sway over many aspects of health: our susceptibility to infectious or autoimmune disease, the success of pregnancies, maybe even behavior. ⁠
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If these cells turn out to be as important as some scientists believe they are, they might be one of the most underappreciated architects of human life, Wu writes. ⁠
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Read more: https://theatln.tc/wpcelUjO

01/02/2025

Amazing 💜

10/18/2024

In 1929 Ge**er began an advertising campaign to convince dieticians and pediatricians that canned baby food was just as nutritious as homemade food, and even better because it was scientifically prepared.
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As part of the campaign, doctors received free Ge**er products for patients. Ge**er also funded research touting the health benefits of their food. That research—vaguely worded and devoid of peer review—was published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, positioning it as scientific fact.
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Alongside these efforts, Ge**er stated that women who prepared their own baby food were neglecting their husbands—and babies. One 1933 ad read, “For Baby’s Sake, Stay Out of the Kitchen!”
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Alongside these efforts, Ge**er advocated for starting solids at 3 months old. And by the 1950’s—after 20 years of advertising—the average age of introducing solids fell to just 6 weeks old.💔
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Since then the medical community realized that too-early introduction of solids displaced valuable nutrition from breast milk/formula. The consensus among medical institutions today (AAP, U.S. National Institutes for Health, and World Health Organization) is that it’s best to introduce solids at 6 months old. It is at this time that most babies are developmentally ready to eat and need more iron. Conveniently, 6 months is also when babies are capable of feeding themselves.
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Baby food was invented. Mom guilt was marketed.
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There is no perfect order of introducing solids. No no need for “stages” of thickness. These were all constructs in the name of profit.
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Convenience has its place. I love a good yogurt pouch and rely on Cheerios when traveling. But the idea that real food has to be hard isn’t good for anyone. Babies don’t need banana pudding or pricey pouches—a banana is fine!
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There is a reason feeding feels complicated. Corporations spent the last century telling your grandmothers and great-grandmothers that they would be bad moms and wives if they didn’t buy pre-prepared baby food. So the next time you feel a twinge of guilt for feeding your baby YOUR way, remember that it’s not you. It’s history.

10/07/2024

EVER.

Most birthing women and people would agree…and many remember the exact details throughout their lives.

What we say, and how we say it, what we do and how we do it, matters. Listening and hearing matters.