Maia Midwifery

26/02/2025

Maia Midwifery's website is now finally live! You can check it out at www.maiamidwifery.com.au
You can now purchase these items in the shop.
More hand made products are available through my Etsy Store
https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/TheSoapBoxAU

19/08/2024

There is nothing to fear ❤️

“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.”

05/04/2024

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18/08/2023

Umbilical cord ties are a safe, gentle and environmentally friendly alternative to the hard, plastic cord clamps that are usually used. With over 300,000 babies born in Australia every year, that's a LOT of cord clamps ending up in landfill! These cord ties are packaged in sealed, sterile packaging for your peace of mind and baby's safety. They can be purchased via the link below.

https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/TheSoapBoxAU

02/03/2023

“The skill of being with women in pain in labour often rests in believing in women when they do not believe in themselves.”
– Nicky Leaf

This is one of the most significant skills anyone supporting a Mother in labor can hold. The very "skill" of riding the waves with a laboring woman while leaving her undisturbed is the best way to help her through. A well versed doula or midwife can simply observe a laboring woman, the way she moves her body, the sounds she makes, and fully understand her progress in labor without ever touching her or speaking to her.

© Spot of Serendipity | Birth

19/02/2023

https://www.melbournemidwiferycollective.com/megyoung

Private midwifery services, home and hospital birth. Located in Pakenham, Victoria, Australia

19/02/2023

Wonderful Midwife and Lactation Consultant, so happy to support her

Welcome to Rene's Lactation Consulting IBCLC Breastfeeding Support, Cranbourne, South East Melbourne

31/01/2023

In the words one I respect greatly ... For safety, stay home....

If you want to reduce your chances of postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) have a homebirth with a midwife who knows how to provide holistic physiological care

It’s an evidence based strategy to reduce the chances of PPH, like, by a lot! 1.7% at home/birth centre with a known midwife compared to 11.2% with active management in hospital…. And these stats are for women considered at low risk of a postpartum bleed.

So if we are really interested in keeping women safe from PPH we’d be encouraging women to hire a midwife and have their babies outside the hospital. BUT mainstream services are focused on trying to maintain the rhetoric that ‘birth is dangerous and hospital is safest’ that they can’t gather their thoughts to the idea of providing a holistic service that focuses on giving every woman access to continuity of care with a midwife or encouraging women to pursue evidence based birth places like home.

The researchers in this study concluded that ‘active management was associated with a 7-8 fold increase in postpartum haemorrhage rates’ for low risk women. This means that when you attend a hospital as a low risk woman, at low risk of PPH, the standard method of placental birth management will result in 11.2% chance of excessive postpartum bleeding…. Compared to 1.7% chance if you were cared for at home/birth centre by a midwife skilled in physiological placental birth.

You can read it for yourself, it’s open access, it’s called ‘holistic physiological care compared with active management of the third stage of labour for women at low risk of postpartum haemorrhage: a cohort study’.

Note: of course, if you are at high risk of bleeding or have care providers or a birth location that can’t facilitate the physiological birth process, active management of the placenta may be the better option… I’m not saying there isn’t a place for medicine… I’m just saying, when you take women out of a physiological environment and put them in hospitals with midwives unskilled in holistic midwifery care, you increase the risk of PPH by 7-8 times

14/12/2022

Meg is an experienced, passionate and woman centred midwife, offering care from early pregnancy through to labour and birth, including home birth. Post Natal care for up to 6 weeks. All in the comfort of your own home. Having a baby is one of the most important and life changing events in a woman's life and Meg aims to respect and support each woman's individual experience. She is committed to providing holistic and evidence based care and assisting women to connect with their innate birthing and mothering wisdom to ensure the best outcomes possible and see women step into their mothering feeling confident and empowered.