Komadrona Birth & Bienestar

10/07/2025

¡Clases de parto en Ceiba libre de costo!

Clases prenatales...Gratis.

8 de julio: Todo sobre el Gran Día: Parto Vaginal y Cesárea.
Preparación para el nacimiento, señales de inicio del parto, etapas del parto, manejo de complicaciones, contacto piel a piel, lactancia inicial y cuidados postparto inmediato.

15 de julio: Manejo del Dolor y Medidas de Confort en el Parto.
Opciones naturales y farmacológicas para el manejo del dolor, técnicas de apoyo emocional y físico, biomecánica de la pelvis y ejercicios para favorecer un parto progresivo.

22 de julio: Posparto, Lactancia Materna y Cuidados del Recién Nacido.
Cuidado hospitalario y domiciliario del recién nacido, recuperación física y emocional de la madre, lactancia materna, señales de alerta, higiene y crecimiento saludable del infante.

29 de julio: Seguridad en el Manejo de Leche Materna y Preparación de Fórmula
Técnicas seguras de extracción, almacenamiento y preparación de leche materna y fórmula infantil, prevención de riesgos de contaminación.

5 de agosto. CPR Pediátrico para Madres, Padres y Cuidadores.
Capacitación en prevención de accidentes, manejo de emergencias, desobstrucción de vías aéreas, seguridad alimentaria, y prevención de muerte súbita del lactante.

12 de agosto. Planificación Familiar y Salud Sexual en el Posparto.
Información actualizada sobre métodos anticonceptivos adecuados para el posparto, salud sexual, recuperación emocional y planificación familiar.

19 de agosto. Preparándote para un Parto Vaginal Después de Cesárea (VBAC).
Preparación basada en evidencia para un parto vaginal después de cesárea, beneficios, riesgos, señales de alerta y estrategias para un VBAC exitoso y seguro.

22 de agosto: Crianza Consciente, Disciplina Positiva e Integración del Niño/a.
Promoción de vínculos seguros, sensibilidad a las necesidades del niño/a, regulación emocional, establecimiento de rutinas saludables, y participación activa del niño/a en la vida familiar.

26 de agosto: Etapas del Desarrollo Infantil y Estimulación Temprana
Hitos del desarrollo desde el nacimiento hasta los tres años, estimulación adecuada, reconocimiento de señales de alerta y promoción del desarrollo integral infantil.

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26/02/2025

07/02/2025

Un parto boricua en diáspora. Gente tan cálida en una tierra tan fría me hace extrañar a la isla. 🏝️ 🇵🇷

Bienvenido a este varoncito hermoso de 6 ! Qué sea muy bendecido siempre 🙏🏽✨

29/01/2025

Birth is an oxymoron…

empowering and humbling

peaceful and chaotic

excruciating and euphoric

heart-wrenching and uplifting

…I’m here for all of it.

14/01/2025

Sweet baby Leona 🤍

Fun fact: babies’ skull plates are not fused until they’re about 2 years old! This allows for rapid brain growth during the first years of life AND for mobility as baby navigates the birth canal. Swipe—> for some serious molding right after birth vs the first photo taken only a couple of hours later 🥰

This, along with our lovely pregnancy hormones that allow for more flexibility in the maternal pelvis, is all part of nature’s perfect design for human birth (a uniquely upright primate with a proportionately large head).

As this mama can attest, this doesn’t make birth a breeze by any means; her and baby still had to work HARD to meet each other face to face. It was inspiring to hold space for their perseverance, and solid support people at her side definitely made a huge difference in achieving this first time home birth. 🙌🏽

17/12/2024

Coming back to your body after birthing your child, or any life experience in which there is intense transformation, shock or grief, is a process that there are no words for in either the English language or language of the medical system.

“Susto” is a cultural concept in Latin America that describes an occurrence that causes the soul to leave the body and when it does not safely return, this has the potential to cause physical and psychosomatic symptoms. Other intact traditional healing systems share this concept.

This can apply to childbirth as well. Many cultures agree that in bearing life, a mother’s body and bones open and her soul is released into the ethers to meet her child’s and bring it safely to earth.

When it does not return properly to the body, nourished and warm, this can cause postpartum symptoms that are all too common in modern society—from depression and anxiety to headaches, organ prolapse, and low energy—often attributed to “frialdad” or coldness of the womb.

After studying clinical midwifery, it has fascinated me to delve deep into this subject, through independent study and sharing with traditional midwives and indigenous body workers. I’ve found even modern western midwifery lacks the language and the tools to acknowledge these concepts.

But I’m comforted to know that most of our grandmothers, if generations removed, held this knowledge, and it still lives in our bodies to bring forth into existence again.

Extending this offering to receive warmth in this cozy solstice/ holiday season. DM if interested or want more info. Share with the mamas you hold dear 🫶🏽🌔❄️

08/12/2024

De los partos que te recuerdan de las cosas más importantes en este lío hermoso de traer vida:

1. La madre es la experta en su propio cuerpo
2. Nadie más que ella importa su salud y la salud de su cría
3. Los intentos para estandarizar un proceso tan único son obsoleto y muchas veces causan más daño que beneficio

Siempre agradecida estar presente y aprender algo nuevo con cada pancita, cada ser de luz que nos conoce con esa mirada sabia. 🙏🏽✨

15/10/2024

I’ve been really bad at posting/ documenting the past few months but I just wanna say- working with families has been a true pleasure! So here’s a lovely photo bomb to honor them 😄

It’s never lost on me the role we [care providers, support people] play in such a monumental event in people’s lives. Every now and then I pause in astonishment at the immense privilege this work entails.

It’s rarely a walk in the park for anyone. Pregnancy can be extremely challenging, childbirth is one of the most intense sensory experiences a human can undergo, parenthood is the most under-appreciated yet most important vocation that exists, and don’t even get me started on midwifery—

But I think the general consensus is: it’s all 110% worth it. I’m grounded in the gratitude of having been present for each of these moments, and so many more I didn’t have the time/ headspace to capture. 🫶🏽

08/08/2024

Cerrando huesos, cerrando pasos.

El parto es un momento breve en la vida, pero el posparto es para siempre.

Nuestra cultura moderna se ha olvidado cómo honrar a la etapa de gestación y alumbramiento—-

Cuando todos los órganos internos cambiaron su posición para darle espacio al crecimiento de un pequeño ser humano.

Cuando el volumen de sangre en el cuerpo de la madre dobló para alimentar al embarazo.

Cuando los huesos abrieron drásticamente para traer vida a la luz.

Cuando la identidad de una sola persona se dividió en dos.

No importa de donde vienes, te lo presto que tus ancestros tenían una manera de honrar y cerrar este proceso monumental.

Es sencillamente parte de nuestro “blueprint”—biológicamente, culturalmente, espiritualmente.

17/07/2024

You live your entire life thinking your own birthday is about you until you either become a mother yourself or witness birth enough times to understand that other births took place that moment in time too.

The birth of the human who was meant to be your mother.
The birth of an older sibling who became a sister or brother. A father, a grandmother, an entire new thread in a lineage that would continue through you. A million identities intertwined.

Thank you to my own mother who made the wonderful, perilous journey through the ethers to join my soul to my body. And to all mothers who do the same.

To all our ancestors for joining in the dance to be reborn through us. To whatever higher power we call upon to pull us through.

Maybe it’s true: we are born many times.

05/06/2024

Cuando hablamos de la salud óptima y la pre-concepción , también debemos de honrar la semilla masculina.

Source: The Fifth Vital Sign by Lisa Hendrickson-Jacks

26/03/2024

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What does it mean to walk as a Midwife?
Well first my love, you better grow thick skin. The purposeful propaganda that started centuries ago is still strong today. Walk in a room and say you are a home birth midwife and watch what happens. Projections, reflections, traumas, and ignorance. You will become a mirror. Remember to reflect back love and grace for you represent the thin veil between life and death. You will grow to know it well.
Being a midwife means gentle hands and whispered tones even when your heart is beating loudly in your ears and you haven't turned off your vigilance for hours/days. It's a full bladder, dehydrated mouth, and growling stomach that gets pushed aside because your presence means something.
Midwifery is stopping a hemorrhage that people don't even know is happening because youre smiling and cooing at the baby to keep up the oxytocin.It is sitting on a living room floor helping a baby cry while telling everyone, "Oh my goodness look how cute she is! Her color is getting so pink! Her heart is so strong." It is sometimes being the voice in the room that says, "I think you would benefit from an epidural." Then at the next birth you are nodding along as a woman cries she can't do it as you guide her to the tub because you know her baby is arriving soon. It is jumping for joy at that first latch and each ounce of baby weight gained.
It is knowing that these truths will be seen as sacrilegious to some and not "true" Midwifery. Then on the other side, you will have people shocked that you know how to take a blood pressure and amazed that you understand how to manage emergencies. You will not win over them all. You have to accept this.
It is knowing you are not God and you humbly submit to the understanding that you will never predict or control it all.
It is missing date nights and apologizing that you have to keep getting up to answer the phone. Saying no to activities you so desperately want to do but there is no cell service and a baby is arriving soon.
But mostly, its hearing the voice in your head saying after each moment with a mother, "If that is all I ever did, it is more than enough. This is what it means to work for the Divine"