Doula, Chilbirth Educator & Miscarriage & Stillbirth Support worker in Cloverdale, BC. Serving women & families across the Lower Mainland & Fraser Valley.
01/05/2020
Happy 2020, everyone! I hope the holidays were wonderful to you & your families! I will be returning to part time nursing in April & am offering a rate reduction for the last spots I have available for birth packages during my own maternity leave. If you know anyone due to welcome a little bundle in the next few months, feel free to share & tag them. Blessings. ๐ฆ
12/24/2019
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!
I wish everyone a most fabulous day with your friends & families. For the mama's waiting on labour, I send you calmness & energy for the job ahead. For the mama's waiting for their BFPs, I send you all the most magical baby dust & to the mama's missing babies they never got to bring home, I send you gentle hugs & strength to get through the holidays. A new decade is just around the corner & it's going to be amazing. ๐
12/09/2019
โ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ง๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ ๐จ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ ๐๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐ฒ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญโ
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Oxytocin is a hormone that acts on organs in the body (including the breast and uterus) and as a chemical messenger in the brain, controlling key aspects of the reproductive system, including childbirth, lactation, human behavior and or***ms.
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We use it to give birth!
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Itโs our natural form of pitocin, which is what is regularly given in hospitals to bring on and increase contractions.
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Unlike pitocin, Oxytocin has an intricate dance between your body and baby to give birth.
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We can increase the release of Oxytocin naturally during labor just by kissing or holding someone we love.
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It can decrease pain for the birther as well.
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Oxytocin bonds us.
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In this photo, you see Oxytocin being released while the parents share a passionate embrace and kiss, bringing their baby closer to their arms.
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Romance and intimacy, is just as vital in birth, as it is in love making.
10/16/2019
Our candles are burning tonight for our sweet triplets Atticus, Xavier & Hazel as well as all the other babies of the world that were gone too soon. Happy 2nd Birthday, my loves. We miss you so very much.
10/14/2019
For all my fellow Canadian followers, I hope your thanksgiving is full of gratitude, turkey & pie! Have a great holiday! ๐
09/21/2019
Can you see that bulge on her lower back? That is the Rhombus of Michaelis. During the second stage of labour, a combination of bones including your sacrum actually move backwards and in doing so, increases the diameter of your pelvis. This is what is known as opening of the back.
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This is completely normal and is in fact an integral part of a physiological birth as it allows your baby the maximum amount of space to turn as they navigate their way out into the world.
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In order to facilitate the opening of your back, you should use active birth positions where you are upright and leaning forwards.
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And while your pelvis is expanding, your baby's head is moulding - changing shape to fit through those pelvic bones! Your body was made to do this! And your body and your baby work together! Birth is not something to be feared...it is something to be understood!
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This is such an absolute dream! Way to go, mama! ๐ฆ
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Gentle, calm and peaceful water birth ๐
Thank you for allowing me to share such an inspirational birth.
Original text:
This is Annalisa and Jeremyโs second birth, first with me. With her first baby her husband was trying to get back from active duty so he could be there for their birth. She was on 37 weeks but he didnโt realize she was in labor while he was trying to get home. When he got the news she was in labor he got home just before she pushed him out. Annalisa, feeling safe with her husband home, brewed her baby past 40 weeks and had a beautiful and calm birth. Such a wonder how babyโs time their arrivals.
08/31/2019
This is so important! ๐ฆ
Delayed cord clamping can make a world of difference in an emergency. As long baby is still attached to the placenta & the placenta is still attached to the uterus, baby is getting oxygenated blood.
Also worth noting:
"In a study involving 456 infants, Chaparo et al. could show that by delaying CC (cord clamping) until 2 minutes, iron stores were improved at 6 months of age. Furthermore, we have shown that delaying CC until three minutes is associated with less anemia and improved development at 12 months of age in population in high-risk of iron deficiency and with improved fine motor function and social behavior at 4 years of age in a high income country."
08/20/2019
How absolutely magical! ๐ฆ
This is a uterus, cervix, ovaries & fallopian tubes. It is normally about 7 centimeters long and 5 centimeters wide. It is an organ capable of expanding more than 100 times to grow a baby. Each month, it self-cleanses and re-builds to provide a growing embryo with the best environment possible. It can support up to 150 times its own weight & is the only organ capable of creating another organ: the placenta. It is connected to you. If you get stressed, it gets stressed, if you relax, it relaxes. It is the second heart of a mother, because there, she forms the hearts of her children.
08/02/2019
Happy World Breastfeeding Week to all the beautiful mamas out there! ๐ฆ Whether you breastfed for a day or a year, whether you supplemented or fed baby exclusively breastmilk, you rock...whether you nursed or pumped & bottle fed, you rock! ๐คฑ๐ผ๐ฅฐ My daughter & I are coming up on 9 months of exclusively pumping & it's been one of the hardest journeys as a mom but also so rewarding.
A little birth awesomeness for your Friday morning.
Taxi Doula anyone?! ๐ฅฐ