Tailored Birthing

12/15/2022

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A photo mainstream media doesn't want you to see.
A smile in birth.

-Love,
Flor Cruz

𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐌𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞, 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞, & 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭!
Flávia Jacob - Fotografia

12/09/2022

We were robbed.
Robbed of something so perfectly designed.
It's moved from women holding space for other women and trusting physiological birth, to insurance bills and a how fast can we numb this mindset.
Birth is so much more sacred than the basic checkpoints
Baby alive ✔
Mom alive ✔

Whether you have a hospital birth, homebirth, c-section, or wild pregnancy you should feel peace, strength, and love all around. 🤍

11/28/2022

With the holiday season coming up—ditch the baby blankets, container toys that stunt development and the miscellaneous gadgets that tend to be obsolete when shopping for parents-to-be.

Give the gift of birth support (Homebirth Midwife, Doula, or Birthkeeper) to a first-time parent who feels anxious transitioning into this new season in their life, to the VBAC mom who wants a doula this time around, to the parent of five who wants to use their power to the fullest extent with their last baby, to the teen mother who feels overwhelmed. The support is crucial.

Give the gift of postpartum support to the family whose parents and siblings and village is hundreds of miles away, to the mother who had a postpartum mood disorder the previous birth, to the family that is worried about not giving attention to older siblings. The support is crucial.

Give the gift of lactation support to, well, everyone.
So many women are struggling.

Give the gift of pelvic floor therapy, which should be standard in all perinatal care.

Give the gift of yoga classes, therapy sessions, midwifery care, chiropractic care, childbirth education classes, gift cards so they can purchase the correct supplements needed.

Give meaningful, useful, vibrant gifts. Enough of buying all the STUFF that the Jones have cause who's trying to keep up with them anyways. The STUFF is useless in the end when your baby is crying and you find yourself crying along feeling hungry, achey, tired, overwhelmed, and still needing to get things done.

Give the gift of support. Mamas are worth it!
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Words: Maternal Affinity Birth Services

09/11/2022

Wonderful weekend of BEST training and NRP 🤍✨️

09/05/2022

“They told you about the contractions but did they tell you about the expansion?
Did they tell you how your body would open to make way for the whole universe to pass through?
Did they tell you how your heart would explode with a love bigger than anything you’ve ever known as you pulled your baby to your chest

They told you about the ring of fire but did they tell you about the crown of stars?
Did they mention that there is a moment when your baby enters the world and you leave your body and touch the heavens and become the light of a million galaxies?
Did they tell you how the pain of stretching to receive your child would be more exquisite than any sensation you’ve felt?

They told you you would scream but did they tell you about how you would roar?
Did they tell you about the power that would rise up from your belly as you called your baby forth with your mighty voice?
Did they tell you how you would embody the wild woman within you and breathe fire with your song?

They told you you would bleed but did they tell you how that sacred blood wouldn’t scare you?
How you would feel grateful for that magical liquid of life as it trickled down your leg?
How you would honor its flow and how it would help you heal a lifetime of hating your body’s bleeding cycles?

They told you these stories and taught you to fear birth, to fear your power, to fear yourself.
But you’re stronger and wiser than that mama.
You know that birth is your divine dance, your soul’s song, your moment with God, and you walk fearlessly into her open arms.”

~ Catie Atkinson
https://m.facebook.com/spiritysol/
on Instagram

NOTE: Not all pregnancies and births are the same. Some are fraught with complications and heartache. Our hearts go out to these with compassion, support, and much love.

08/22/2022

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A mama with her mini Doulas 💫

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07/11/2022

Rʜᴏᴍʙᴜs Mɪᴄʜᴀᴇʟɪs

🤯🤭 “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 (1993) 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’." https://www.sarawickham.com/articles-2/the-rhombus-of-michaelis/ 📸 3:23 Photography & Birth Services



Reposted from and . you can read the article they are citing on her website 🤎✨️

06/29/2022

Touches of gold ✨️🤍