Taking Root Birth & Wellness

12/18/2025

08/22/2025

12/13/2024

Nourishing yourself well is the best prenatal care you can give yourself!

09/26/2024

Another blog post moved to my website!
"Summary: The amniotic sac and fluid play an important role in facilitating physiological birth and protecting the baby. There is no evidence that rupturing this sac will reduce the length of labour. While every intervention has its place, including ARM, care providers need to carefully consider the risks before offering it to women. Also, women must be fully informed of the risks before choosing an ARM during their labour."
https://www.rachelreed.website/blog/amnioticsaclabour

09/20/2024

This is why midwives should be seeing all pregnant folks unless they are truly high risk or a complication arises. In the countries with the best mama and baby outcomes, midwives see all the low risk families(~90% of all pregnancies) and OBs only see the high risk/complicated pregnancies. Midwives are the experts in normal!! OBGYNs rarely if ever see a truly normal, physiological birth and aren’t trained in it, they’re trained in the complications so naturally that’s what they’re going to try to find and create by intervening unnecessarily, not to mention they’re trained as surgeons who are taught to not see their patients as people and some still taught racist beliefs.

A new list released this month by Forbes ranks Arkansas as the worst place to have a baby in all 50 states. According to the statistics, mothers are more likely to die during childbirth in Arkansas than anywhere else in the United States.

FULL STORY: https://neareport.com/2024/09/19/forbes-ranks-arkansas-as-worst-place-to-have-a-baby/

09/17/2024

08/15/2024