Tranquil Waters Birth Support

02/25/2023

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Imagine your father holding your hand as your mother cradles your head while you enter this world for the first time.

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06/22/2020

A beautiful Father’s Day memoriam from .cargle ..
Birthing From Within honors all the fathers and father figures out there - thank you for everything you do.
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I was my dads favorite person and no one can convince me otherwise. During the time that I had him with me I never felt anything less than the center of the universe which, to this day, my mom loves to remind me that I am not 😂. For the first 7 years of my life I thought my name was Beautiful , that was all he ever called me. I remember laughing harder than ever, feeling safer than ever, being more comfortable than ever when I was with my dad.
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My father passed away when I was 11 due to kidney failure. The hospital where he had been staying called our home in the middle of the night, I answered. They didn’t ask for my mother, they simply said, into my 11 year old ear, “We called to tell you that Larry Brooks has passed” and I said thank you and hung up. I walked up the stairs, heart pounding, but no tears showing up just yet, to tell my mom. The next 24 hours were a blur. At his funeral a few days later was the first time I cried about him passing. I cried loud and hard and my grandma hugged and rocked me in the back of the room. But my tears, even at that age, weren’t purely grief but gratefulness that I had known such a depth of love.
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I think — I know, rather — that even though I missed his presence over all these years I never ever felt without his love. I was filled to the brim with his affirmations of who I was and how I mattered and that stuck to my bones as they grew.
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I wish so much that he could see me now. That I could lay near him and nap, that I could call him when the exciting things happen, that we could go to drive-in burger spots again in the middle of the night, that he could tell me how much I look like him, that he could introduce me to everyone he meets as “his beautiful daughter Rachel”, that he could read my words and hear me speak and he could see that what he poured into me is now in full bloom...

06/16/2020

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Happy Black Babywearing Week! Are you ready for a fun week?

2020 Press Release:

rev·o·lu·tion
/ˌrevəˈlo͞oSH(ə)n/
noun
1.
a forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favor of a new system:

In 2016, our co-founder, Nashira B. trademarked the phrase “The Revolution Will Be Carried.” that we use during Black Babywearing Week. This phrase was as powerful then as it is now in 2020. It was a launching place for the Black babywearing community to spring forward from the shadows and corners that we were pressed into by elitist groups and highly priced carriers.

We as Black babywearers now have a charge and a unifying reason to wear our children, the revolution of a social order. This year, our history of babywearing as a form of revolution is being highlighted to the most powerful degree.

A revolution is happening all over the globe because Black people live all over this world.

We are babywearers, because of tradition, necessity, commodity, kinship and because, we look good while doing it. We “back babies” because we can, and because the historically dominant culture failed to stop us completely. I wear my babies on my back with the weight of the world on my shoulders. We wear our children on our chests close to our heavy hearts so it is easier to carry on. We keep our children close so when they call out a resounding “Mama!” they have immediate comfort and protection from harm.
Our revolution for Black Babywearing Week is interchangeable with the larger revolution happening now. We are resisting the history that has seen our offspring kidnapped and taken from us. We have been resilient throughout a history that has seen our children neglected in favor of other’s care. We are reclaiming our families and are keeping our own bonded to us, tied to us. To be a black babywearer is to be a revolutionary hero. Not only are we returning to our roots we are also raising our children with ancestral knowledge from their beginning. We are doing all of this together.

06/08/2020

"Past and present systems of oppression have resulted in many pregnant people being marginalized from access to optimal care and support, resulting in tremendous disparities in health outcomes. Birthing From Within is dedicated to addressing these disparities within the birth world, our organization, and ourselves individually."

https://birthingfromwithin.com/equity-birthing-from-within/

06/08/2020

The therapist and trauma specialist with old wisdom and very new science about our bodies and nervous systems, and all we condense into the word “race.”

06/04/2020

Ancient Song Doula Service mission has always been to uplift the voices of communities of colo… Ancient Song needs your support for Equity, Continuity, & Hope

05/21/2020

"To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour."
- William Blake
home (家). 11x14. pencil drawing. Adam Sturch
A lifetime, a day, an hour, it's never enough and so much too much. This is a drawing about a moment that i'm grateful to have experienced.

05/18/2020

I had just had our fourth baby. I was at my 6 week checkup when I asked for a referral to have my tubes tied. I was 28 and had 4 kids. The doctor told me no. I was too young. “What if you want kids later on?”
Um. I’m done. “But what if you divorce and want a baby with your new partner?”
Ummmm. I’m 28 with 4 kids- I’M DONE. “Sorry, I just can’t in good conscious let you make such an irrational decision when you are so young.” I remember going home and telling my husband, “that was the strangest appointment I’ve ever been too. He told me I wasn’t able to decide when I was finished having babies?!” I shook it off, not realising the IMPACT that would have on me a mere 20 months later.
Imagine, being in the mentality that you are finished having children, you just attempted to have your tubes tied to be denied, then to find out your pregnant.

Choice 👏🏼 fu***ng 👏🏼 matters 👏🏼.
Women’s 👏🏼 rights 👏🏼 matter 👏🏼

Do you see the irony here? You can’t have your tubes tied. You can’t have an abortion. You can’t you can’t you can’t you can’t....my choice to have a baby matters. My choice to an abortion matters. My choice to have my tubes tied matters. My choice to give up my baby for adoption matters. My choice to use my body as a sacred vessel for surrogacy matters. My choice is also YOUR choice. When one is removed they all are removed.
So, for all the women who are told they are under 30 and unable to have a tubal ligation, then find themselves pregnant and unable to have a legal abortion- I see you.
To all the women who enjoy s*x and get pregnant and are unable to have a legal abortion- I see you too.
To the 16 year old girl who had s*x ONE TIME without a condom and got pregnant and doesn’t have access to a legal abortion- I see you too babe.
Choice. Humans rights. Birth rights.
Consent. Respect. It all matters.

05/15/2020

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05/14/2020

05/10/2020

The energy felt during childbirth is unlike anything else you will ever experience. It changes you forever. does such an amazing job showing the energy. Hes one of my favorite artists!!

05/02/2020

Ever wonder, Where are the OBs who understand and uphold informed consent? Here are two of them, visionary doctors Brad Bootstaylor and Nathan Riley, on Nathan's podcast with me. It is full of gems like this:

Brad Bootstaylor and Nathan Riley, on making time for respectful care and informed consent:

Nathan: "Heaven forbid that you get to know this person on a very very deep level."

Brad: "If I can make a brief comment to that, it's not that you're trying to become attached to them so that you can spend five hours talking about paint chips. It's one where, if you dehumanize, and not make them relevant to whatever medical process is going on, they become The Other. And if they are The Other, it's easy to do an emergency cesarean for no reason. And so, "Oh, it's 5:00, it's Friday, stat c-section." "Why you doing a stat c-section?" "I think the baby's not going to fit." "Really? Where does that come from?"

"So it's easy to now manifest the monstrosity of the obstetrician towards that patient, hence now that patient tells her cousin, who tells her girlfriend, who tells her web forum friends, "I was disempowered. Obstetrics is evil." So now you have a whole cadre of folks viewing obstetrics as evil, and then you have the obstetricians viewing that cadre of folks as the antagonistic Other. And so that cultural change is really thick and deep... This place we're at in maternity care is at that seismic level. Because you have moms with information in their hands on their cell phones. And you have these providers who have all the information, they think. And these two elements have to get together and share in the decision-making. But they can't treat each other as "The Other.""

https://www.obgynowino.com/post/obgyno-wino-podcast-episode-46-changing-the-culture-of-hospital-based-birth

05/01/2020

No Masks for us! Dr. Stu caught us this morning in my parents house in San Diego. I came out butt first and my sleepy brother came 40 minutes later head first. After 36 weeks of we’ve had enough of being locked down. It’s birthday party time! Sharing our first day with you. 💞👶🏻👶🏻💞

04/29/2020

Wondering how you can support a new family from a distance? There are still ways to do it! We have a whole episode dedicated to navigating postpartum during the time of COVID that is dropping later this afternoon 🙌

In the meantime, here are a few quick ideas to inspire you in supporting the new parents in your life!

What other ideas do you have? We would love to hear them in the comments below 👇