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Birth Doula|Birth Influencer #childbirth #birth #doula #pregnancy #labor #newborns #homebirth #freebirth #hospitalbirth #birthcenter #vbac #naturalbirth

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🕊𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐋𝐔𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇🕊
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Trust that your body can grow this baby.
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Trust that your baby knows how to be born.
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And trust that your body knows how to birth.
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Trust like you have never trusted before.
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A surprise breech baby showed up at a birth center and nobody hit the panic button.

No shouting.

No flood of people running into the room.

The midwives assessed the situation, stayed calm, and caught the baby.

That doesn’t mean breech birth is risk-free.

It means skilled providers know the difference between an emergency and needing different skills.

We’ve trained an entire generation to believe that the mere sight of a breech baby should trigger chaos.

But for most of human history, breech babies were born before ultrasound, before operating rooms, and before anyone could schedule a cesarean six weeks in advance.

What changed wasn’t the existence of breech babies.

What changed was our confidence in supporting them.

The most shocking part of this video isn’t that the baby was breech.

It’s that everyone remained calm.

And in today’s birth culture, that’s apparently controversial.

-Love,
@badassmotherbirther

#BreechBirth #Midwifery #BirthCenterBirth #PhysiologicalBirth #BadassMotherBirther

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She went for a walk during labor and accidentally gave birth outside.

She wasn’t trying to have an outdoor birth.

She just wanted some fresh air.

A few contractions.

A short walk.

Then suddenly…

Baby.

No delivery room.

No hospital bed.

No countdown.

Sometimes labor speeds up when a person feels safe, relaxed, and free to move.

Walking can help labor progress by encouraging optimal fetal positioning, using gravity, and reducing stress hormones.

Just a mother, a baby, and a body that knew exactly what to do.

Birth can be wildly unpredictable, beautifully powerful, and far more instinctive than we’ve been taught to believe.

The human body literally gave birth on the sidewalk…

Yet we have somehow convinced an entire generation that laboring mothers should spend birth flat on their backs, attached to machines, waiting for permission to push.

Movement isn’t the problem.

Immobility can definitely be.

This baby decided the walk was over.

Birth happened exactly where birth happened.

𝐅𝐋𝐎𝐑 𝐂𝐑𝐔𝐙 / 𝐁𝐀𝐃𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 ©

#birth #childbirth #homebirth #baby #parto

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🩷 𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐓𝐎𝐈𝐋𝐄𝐓 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇 🩷

I often get asked why anyone would give birth in such a dirty place.

But here’s the actual truth.

Sterile doesn’t mean safe.

And clean doesn’t mean clinical.

A home toilet is often cleaner, microbially speaking, than a hospital labor and delivery room.

Why? Because it’s your bacteria.

Your household microbes.

Your immune system knows them.

Hospital rooms are disinfected often, yes, but they’re also high-traffic zones filled with resistant strains that thrive in ‘sterile’ spaces.

Sterilized doesn’t mean natural.

It means stripped of balance.

Birth isn’t supposed to happen in a germ-vacuum.

It thrives in the ecosystem your baby already belongs to.

Familiar air. Familiar hands. Familiar microbes.

Sterile isn’t always safer.

Sometimes, home is.

#birth #labor #birthvideo #baby #pregnancy #pregnant #homebirth #midwife #laboranddelivery #mother #PregnancyJourney #thirdtrimester

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@TeemarsBeauty May i share this?

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#NewProfilePic

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New post up on my website about the importance of Skin-To-Skin Contact, regardless of how the baby is born and whether you plan to breastfeed or not.
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Skin-To-Skin Contact is a matter of health and I want you to read why.
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Go to https://t.co/CU2SqbTDWk
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#SkinToSkin

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Benefits of breastfeeding:
❤️Chances of breast and ovarian cancer are reduced
❤️Reduces the risk of developing:
➖type 2 diabetes
➖rheumatoid arthritis
➖cardiovascular disease
➖high blood pressure
➖high cholesterol
❤️lower risk of depression
#nursing

Photo: @celacma

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@realDonaldTrump Mr.Trump. Can you take time out from building your fucken wall to address why women and babies are dying during childbirth in the US due to racism? I’m sure Lashonda Hazard and her baby want to know why the color of their skin wasn’t enough.

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A forebag of waters is where the outer sac(the chorion)has detached from the uterus as the cervix opens.
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It forms what can look like a bubble on top of the baby’s head.
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The rest… https://t.co/ZMbr3dZHAn

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✦𝐒𝐈𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐆𝐎𝐋𝐃𝐄𝐍✦
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The temple of birth is sacred.
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The environment surrounding a child and mother coming into existence is worthy of silence amongst every person in the room except… https://t.co/YBZsSqYe2i

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🌸ʙᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴏɪᴄᴇ ғᴏʀ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴘʀᴏᴠɪᴅᴇʀ ᴅᴏᴇs ɴᴏᴛ ᴇǫᴜᴀʟ ʙᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴏɪᴄᴇ ғᴏʀ ʏᴏᴜ🌸
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A secret that I want to share with you is that THE BIRTHING MOTHER IS THE AUTHORITY IN THE BIRTH ROOM.
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Once a… https://t.co/8xbFBpggjK

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⭐️🅲🅾🅻🅾🆂🆃🆁🆄🅼⭐️
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Colostrum is the first milk your body starts producing around 3-4 months of pregnancy. It's full of antibodies and immunoglobulins, which not only help protect newborns… https://t.co/PWNzayJskK

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The arch in her back signifying that birth is here.
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Her stretch marks that prove her body nurtured a child.
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Her linea negra thriving off of raging pregnancy hormones.
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Her mouth… https://t.co/OXJ3mUFsnZ

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𝐀𝐍 𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐁𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇
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Every year, at this time, we celebrate the most famous birth of all.
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The birth of Jesus.
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natalielennard last year depicted the birth of Jesus in art. ✦
The… https://t.co/hYJH6SoHDV

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We need @realDonaldTrump to sign the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act! Mothers are dying at an alarming rate in the U.S.A.! We cannot afford to ignore this any longer Mr. Trump! #savemomsnow #Act2SaveMoms

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Quadruplets born via belly birth at 31 weeks gestation.
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3 were born in their amniotic sac.
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So gorgeous to see 😍
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Photographer: estudio_thalitacastanha on IG
OB: dr.andregiro on IG
#quads #quadruplets #amnioticsac #encaul #csection #cesarean #birth

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A provider must learn to teach his/her hands to wait.
Bianka Manhaes teaches her students the art of watchful waiting and leaving the mother and baby to do their work.
Assisting a normal physiological birth requires the skill of knowing that “LESS IS MORE”.
#childbirth #birth

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⭐️NATURAL TWIN BIRTH⭐️
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And one day she discovered that she was fierce, strong and full of fire.
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Not even she could hold herself back.
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VideoCred: Fabiana Rodrigues

#twins #naturaltwinbirth #waterbirth #landbirth #unmedicatedbirth #vaginaltwinbirth

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♥️THESE IMAGES MAKE MY HEART EXPLODE♥️
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Normalizing childbirth starts with what we teach our children about it.
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Fearing birth is something that is learned.
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PhotoCred: New Day Midwifery #childbirth #normalizechildbirth #birth #pregnancy