Sacred Bee Doula and Placenta

04/14/2023

04/07/2023

Love this visual!

01/08/2020

This is perfect!

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12/03/2019

After having seven miscarriages in two years, Whitney Billings included all of her angel babies in an emotional family photo.

10/12/2019

This is great news for San Diego families!

San Diego groups are supporting the moms and babies that face the highest rate of death from childbirth.

10/12/2019

Great visual!!!!

10/09/2019

I remember this feeling! Lol!

But yeah, I'm totally confident in my parenting abilities. 😒

(via Mommy Cusses)

08/25/2019

Ever wonder why the HypnoBirthing breathing techniques are so effective? Here is the science behind calm breathing techniques I teach in Hypnobirthing.

06/28/2019

Lol! Indeed!

Which position was your baby’s favorite in uterine??👶🏽👶🏻🤰🏻😂

06/28/2019

Perfect explanation of the fetal ejection reflex!

The Fetal Ejection Reflex. In the final stages of an undisturbed labour, the fetal ejection reflex is triggered, causing powerful, involuntary, expulsive contractions that enable us to birth our babies. As our baby moves through the pelvis, they will stimulate the nerve endings and initiate this incredible response within our bodies. At this point in labour you will have a huge surge in adrenalin, again contributing to initiating the fetal ejection reflex (thought to be so we have both energy for this moment, and that we become alert immediately after birth in order to protect our newborn babies!). In hospital settings, we sometimes see an external trigger for adrenalin production (such as discussions around instrumental birth or new people entering a room) cause this response too, as our bodies 'sense danger' and decide that baby is better out than in!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

This surge in adrenalin (the hormone of fear) can also explain why we sometimes feel or express 'panic' during transition, it's our outward response to our body's way of preparing hormonally for what is about to happen. For some women this comes with an irresistible urge to bear down and 'push', for others the reflex takes over entirely.

The simplest way to describe what the fetal ejection reflex feels like, is remembering a time where you suffered with food poisoning and needed to be sick, nothing would stop you being sick, it was just HAPPENING! It's basically that... in reverse
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If birth is disturbed too much, be that by intervention, conversation, location or something else, we run the risk of interfering with the body's natural flow of hormones, meaning we miss hugely helpful, natural mechanisms such as this! It's therefore important that we think carefully about the environment and support we have around us during birth. We have the PERFECT physiological system already in place, we simply need to let it do it's job!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Don't forget the online course launches TOMORROW at 8am, group and private courses booking as normal ♥️

Incredible photo by .birthandlife

06/28/2019

Look at that 🥰