Sacred Service Midwifery

08/12/2021

08/05/2021

Birth is so amazing

Imagine if our culture told us that birth was one of the greatest things a women might ever do. Imagine if the stories and images we were exposed to taught us that labor is an incredible and transformational experience. A rite of passage into motherhood

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11/22/2020

Love this one ...
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You’re a midwife?? Thats cool, I wanted be one when I was a kid!! "what do you make"? " WHAT DO I MAKE"!! I make holding your hand seem the most important thing in the world when you're scared. I can make your baby breath when they stop. I can help you survive a post-partum haemorrhage. I can make myself get out of bed at 5am, so I can care for you and your partner on the most important day of your life, and I am privileged to do so. I make my family wait for dinner, until I know your family is taken care of. I make myself skip lunch, until I know all I did for you today is documented. I make myself work weekends, nights and holidays, because people don't just birth babies 9-5 monday to friday. Today, I might save your life, or your baby. REPOST if you’re a midwife and proud of it! I know I am! ###x

09/11/2020

Is there really anything to say about this? So much cuteness!!!👶👶👶

09/03/2020

Found on Google from gatherandgrow.co

09/03/2020

https://www.veganlifemag.com/eating-for-two/

Vegan Mum Emily talks to us about her first vegan pregnancy

08/18/2020

Dates have been used around the world for centuries as a natural approach to preparation for labor. Several studies now support their effectiveness. Though we don’t know exactly why, they do have an impact on the start and progress of labor - likely due to an impact on the hormone oxytocin which helps labor start and progress effectively.⁠
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A 2011 study found that women who ate dates starting at 36 weeks were:⁠
🔸 Significantly more dilated when they got to the hospital⁠
🔸 Had a significantly higher rate of intact membranes⁠
🔸 Were significantly more likely to go into labor spontaneously (i.e. without induction)⁠
🔸 And had nearly half the length of first stage of labor⁠
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A 2014 study found that women who ate dates from 37 weeks on had:⁠
🔸 Greater cervical dilatation at admission⁠
🔸 Higher success rates of labor induction when needed⁠
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A 2017 study concluded that all the above was accurate and yet another study found that eating dates in pregnancy led to less bleeding immediately after birth.⁠
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Any type of dates work! The ‘dose’ is about 2.5 ounces of dates ( ~6 to 8 small dates or ~4 larger dates) daily, starting at 36 or 37 weeks and until labor begins. I love eating them plain, but you can include them in my “herbal bliss bites” (recipe on my IGTV), use them to sweeten cashew or almond milk, or include them chopped in yogurt or oatmeal. Amazingly, they also haven’t been shown to be a problem for blood sugar.⁠
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Did you use dates to prep for your labor? Do you know a pregnant mama who is prepping for labor? Tag her in the comments below so she can learn about the power of this ancient medicine!

08/03/2020

Let’s talk about Placental Location
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The placenta is the only disposable organ! It provides oxygen and nutrients to your little one while also removing waste from your baby’s blood. It starts to attach to the wall of your uterus around 8 weeks and will start sustaining your baby around 12 weeks.
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🤷🏼‍♀️ Where can it attach?
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Anterior Placenta: When the placenta is attached to the front side of your uterus - between your baby and the front of your belly. This can typically result in feeling less fetal movement early on in your pregnancy, but is otherwise harmless.
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Posterior Placenta: Where your placenta attaches to the back of your uterus - closest to your spine. Usually women with posterior placenta feel fetal movement earlier in the pregnancy.
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Fundal Placenta: When your placenta attaches to the top of your uterus. There are two different types - fundal-anterior placenta where it extends to the front of the uterus and fundal-posterior where it extends towards the back of your uterus.
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Low-Lying or Placenta Previa: This is broken down into 3 categories - Complete (it covers your entire cervix), Partial (it covers part of the cervical opening), and Marginal (it’s right next to the cervix) . This is the least ideal location for your placenta to attach, as it can cause complications throughout your pregnancy. Depending on how blocked your cervix is when you get close to delivery, it may result in delivery via cesarean. Luckily, your uterus grows so quickly that most of these cases result in your placenta moving up and away from your cervix before delivery.
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Comment below if you know where your placenta is/was located! 👇

Thanks to .mommy 📸

07/30/2020

The amount of breastmilk you can pump is not an indication of how much milk your baby is getting.......it’s an indication of how much you can pump.

A quick way to fall into a negative spiral is to use a breastpump as a measuring tool.

Some people will pump, not get much, freak out that they are starving their baby and start topping off with formula.

Baby is now super full, sleeps longer, your body goes longer stretches without feeding and in turn starts slowing milk production.

Many will eventually switch over fully to formula feeding.

All because a breastpump was used as a measuring tool.

07/24/2020

I’d like to change this conversation.
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We always talk about the benefits of leaving the umbilical cord attached after birth. We say it gives a baby all these extra things (like the infographic here)

Optimal Cord Clamping- changing the conversation

Leaving a baby attached to their lifeline (cord and placenta) does not give them EXTRA things. It gives them the biologically normal components that are apart of the 1/3rd of their blood volume still circulating at birth. We often hear birth advocates talking about benefits of optimal cord clamping and all the extra a baby gets. But in reality we need to be changing the language to reflect the facts that not doing this, comes with risks and deficiencies.

🗣 All of these “extra” benefits are actually the normal amounts a neonate is intended to have. Immediately cutting a cord and depriving them of their blood volume and all the biologically normal components that come with it (the benefits in the infographic), take away these important factors and makes them deficient in these areas.

🗣 Immediately clamping and cutting a cord comes with risks. Risks of oxygen deprivation, low iron levels, low blood cell and white blood cell count (because they are missing a 1/3rd of their blood volume) and low levels of stem cells.

Often times when we are trying to change a routine practice, we want to make it seem like there are all these benefits and convince people of why it should be done by glorifying it. When in reality, we need to talk about the risks and issues that come with not changing the practice because the current practice is damaging.

I’d like to see memes and info graphics say these points 👇🏼
▶️ If you immediately clamp and cut the cord 👉🏼 The baby is deficient of 60% of THEIR blood cells.

▶️ If you immediately clamp and cut the cord 👉🏼 The baby does not receive all of their iron stores how nature intended and will not have adequate levels through the first year.

▶️ If you immediately clamp and cut the cord👉🏼 They do not get all of THEIR white blood cells they are intended to receive at birth and this can lead to being more susceptible to infections and unable to fight them off as adequately.

▶️ If you immediately clamp and cut the cord 👉🏼 They do not receive all of THEIR antibodies in their blood volume and are lacking the adequate antibodies to protect them.

▶️ If you immediately clamp and cut the cord 👉🏼 They do not get all of THEIR intended stem cells, this will effect their bodies natural function that helps repair their bodies and can be damaging.

But I’d take changing it to this at the very least🔻

▶️ Instead of “if you delay cord clamping for 90 seconds they get 60% more blood cells” 👉🏼 If you leave the cord intact as it should be, the baby receives 60% of THEIR blood cells.

▶️ Instead of “they get enough iron to last them through their first year” 👉🏼 They received all of their iron stores how nature intended and will have adequate levels through the first year.

▶️ Instead of “they get white blood cells to fight infection” 👉🏼 They get all of THEIR white blood cells they are intended to receive at birth that leads to fighting infections more adequately.

▶️ “They get antibodies” 👉🏼 all of THEIR antibodies are transferred in their blood volume to protect them.

▶️ “They get stem cells to repair the body” 👉🏼 They get all of THEIR intended stem cells that will help repair their bodies and greatly benefit them.

🔹Post words, information and credit Cari Samuelson, Sacred Sage Births
🔹Image information Dr Alan Greene 🔹Creator of image Moomysmilk