Empower Yoga & Birth with Shara

04/05/2022

So fun to look back 2 yrs ago on this.

05/09/2020

Can I be a birth doula and birth education supporter and empowering for women and also support her personal choices for birth or needed termination ?

Yes. Yes I can.

So often I see people judging others for things they know nothing about on a personal level. What you read about in headlines and billboards is NOT someone’s personal situation. Most of it is filled with misinformation in the form of only giving 1/2 the information on the statistics.

My literal job as a doula is to be supportive for what my client believes to be her best educated choice in her personal situation. It may not be what I’d choose for my personal life but that’s the beauty of freedom ... autonomy ... choice because I’m not in her shoes or life circumstances and I can’t gauge what next thing might break her.

Anyway - that’s where I stand firmly.
Educated informed choices = empowerment & womens right for autonomy

05/09/2020

https://parentsguidecordblood.org/en/faqs/can-i-have-delayed-cord-clamping-and-still-collect-cord-blood

Be sure you ask your hospitals policy and your provider about donation and delayed clamping because it may say “no” you can’t do both.

You can delay cord clamping if you are storing cord blood privately for your family, but if you plan to donate cord blood then it is not advisable to delay cord clamping. The goal of delayed cord clamping is to allow some of the blood in the umbilical cord to flow into the newborn. This is most like...

11/08/2020

We're PCSing to Northern Virginia next week! I am still available for advice via messenger / email until we get set up in Virginia. After October I may begin at home visits for Birth Prep Crash courses for the local area.

29/07/2020

This ladies!

14/06/2020

Check it out!

I always look for this ☺️

The rhombus of Michaelis (sometimes called the quadrilateral of Michaelis) is a kite-shaped area that includes the three lower lumber vertebrae, the sacrum and that long ligament which reaches down from the base of the scull to the sacrum.
This wedge-shaped area of bone moves backwards during the second stage of labour and as it moves back it pushes the wings of the ilea out, increasing the diameters of the pelvis. We know it’s happening when the woman’s hands reach upwards (to find something to hold onto, her head goes back and her back arches.) It’s what Sheila Kitzinger was talking about when she recorded Jamaican midwives saying the baby will not be born ‘till the woman opens her back’. I’m sure that is what they mean by the ‘opening of the back’. “The reason that the woman’s arms go up is to find something to hold onto as her pelvis is going to become destabilised. This happens as part of physiological second stage; it’s an integral part of an active normal birth. If you’re going to have a normal birth you need to allow the rhombus of Michaelis to move backwards to give the baby the maximum amount of space to turn his shoulders in. Although the rhombus appears high in the pelvis and the lower lumbar spine when it moves backwards, it has the effect of opening the outlet as well.“When women are leaning forward, upright, or on their hands and knees, you will see a lump appear on their back, at and below waist level. It’s much higher up than you might think; you don’t look for it near her buttocks, you look for it near her waist."
Image of mother shared from .herbs and Text by : Dr Sara Wickham
Photo cred of mom:

09/05/2020

One of my most memorable evenings at Lamaze class went like this. It was the fifth night of a six week series – so everyone was very pregnant. We were discussing Interventions – everything from IV …