Birth By Design Doula Services

12/12/2019

As many as one in three women in the UK are traumatised by their birth experiences, and one in 25 of those will go on to develop full-blown PTSD

10/30/2019

The ending...just wait for it! 😂😂😂😂

09/18/2019

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Dear new mother,
The postpartum period is very very hard. If your baby is inconsolable and you get angry and frustrated, it doesn’t mean you are a bad mother. It doesn’t mean you don’t love your child. It just means you need support, understanding, and help.

09/18/2019

Delayed cord clamping...Did you know you have a say? Do you know why it’s important?

How’s this umbilical cord 😊 this is 4 minutes after birth, still pumping with blood, big and juicy. Some care providers say delayed cord clamping is 1 minute, but look at this cord still facilitating a placental transfusion. All this wonderful cord bliss being delivered to baby. There is a good reason they say ‘wait for white’ so the cord is completely drained before cutting it. 📷

07/29/2019

I couldn’t love this more!

This Dr. was AMAZING! Baby was face up and Dr. was not able to turn the baby, which is pretty uncomfortable/painful. Instead of going straight to a c-section like most others do he tried everything else to help this mama deliver naturally.⁣ Louisiana Women's Healthcare Associates Birth Center of Baton Rouge
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⁣ This position here is called “Towel Pull or Tug of War”. When a contraction comes, you pull on the towel, curl your back forward, and pull your knees back and apart as far as you can, so you are making a C shape curved around your uterus. It sounds like a lot of effort but it really works! you see those bars under moms legs those are also great for helping with pushing, called the “row boat”. Don’t think only lying down is your only option in a hospital! Find amazing Drs. Like this that will help do it all!! Melanie TheDoc McHenry-LeBlanc

** EDITED TO ADD- You know you went viral when you have to have one of these 🤷🏼‍♀️!! I do many many c sections and love and praise all my section moms! Sections are actually one of my favorite births to attend. If you go and read the moms that had to have sections on here I praised them for being so strong for having a cesarean and how amazing they are because birth is birth no matter how it comes it will be hard and beautiful! I will never think any of my section moms as giving up! I simple love trying everything else first to avoid a major surgery! No birth is giving up!

07/12/2019

A great visual.

04/17/2019

Freedom to move around during your labor is so important. Did you know your body does this, ladies?

How’s this shot of a mumma using gravity and allow her body to open? 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 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’.

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"The reason that the woman’s arms go up is to find something to hold onto as her pelvis is going to become destabilised. This happens as part of physiological second stage; it’s an integral part of an active normal birth. If you’re going to have a normal birth you need to allow the rhombus of Michaelis to move backwards to give the baby the maximum amount of space to turn his shoulders in. Although the rhombus appears high in the pelvis and the lower lumbar spine when it moves backwards, it has the effect of opening the outlet as well.

When women are leaning forward, upright, or on their hands and knees, you will see a lump appear on their back, at and below waist level. It’s much higher up than you might think; you don’t look for it near her buttocks, you look for it near her waist."

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