Clovis Midwifery

06/14/2022

✨WE’RE MOVING✨
It’s been an honor to serve families in Clovis over the last year and we are so excited for our next adventure back in our home state of Texas!

05/05/2022

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👩🏾‍⚕️🤰🏼🌎👨🏽‍🍼👨🏼‍⚕️International Day of the Midwife - 5th May 2022 - to Midwives all over the world we stand with you and celebrate you! Love 🤰🏿👩🏼‍⚕️🌎👨🏻‍⚕️👨🏽‍🍼

05/03/2022

Still swooning over these super emotional photos from Aubrey Mae’s surprise gender homebirth back in March! This first time Mama absolutely rocked her birth and Daddy got to catch his baby GIRL! 💗
📸: Paige Lollar

04/28/2022

“I’d love to have a homebirth but I’m going to deliver at a hospital… just in case.”

1) Homebirth midwives are medically trained professionals, highly qualified and equipped with the skills needed to handle an emergency and knowing when to transfer.

2) The homebirth midwife that you’re scared of being under-qualified has probably seen more natural, physiological births in a one month timeframe than the typical OB has in their entire career.

3) The emergencies and trauma you’re trying to avoid are more likely to happen within a hospital setting because they have such a high rate of medically unnecessary interventions, leading to the cascade of interventions.

*Women should birth where they feel the most comfortable but we also need to remove the fear and stigma from homebirth because it’s a safe and valid option*

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04/12/2022

03/05/2022

When I was first attending births in 1984, the obstetric model was to cut the umbilical cord immediately after birth and take the baby away for evaluation and a first bath. This was based on the belief that placental blood flow would increase birth complications for babies.

Even back then, we midwives knew to do it differently - we waited until the placenta stopped pulsating - 10 or more minutes -- before clamping and cutting the cord. Baby’s did great, placentas came out readily, and all was good - even if our methods were considered silly by doctors.

Times change, science has caught up. The midwives were right. We now know that immediate cord cutting, unless there’s a medical emergency that requires it, is not recommended. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists now recommends a delay in umbilical cord clamping for at least 30–60 seconds, and the WHO recommends 2-3 minutes.

The benefits of waiting include:
❣️ Transfer to baby immunoglobulins and stem cells, essential for tissue and organ repair
❣️ Extra iron, which has been shown to prevent iron deficiency in the first year of life
❣️ Possibly reduced risk of hemorrhage and easier placental delivery for mom

While jaundice can develop from delayed cord cutting due to this influx of blood, this type of jaundice is not usually a medical problem. Baby will naturally clear this excess iron with pooping. Your midwife or pediatrician will keep an eye on baby over the first few days to make sure it’s clearing. However, the benefits of delayed cord cutting are more beneficial for baby than the risk of this jaundice.

Unfortunately, immediate cord clamping/cutting are still common practice in hospitals. You have to let your midwife or doctor know that you want to wait, with baby tummy to tummy on you, while you do. I recommend bringing this up with your care provider in advance to ensure that they are on board to do ‘delayed cord clamping and cutting’. Get specific with exactly how long you want baby to be connected to the placenta. Unsure how to advocate for yourself? Want guidance on pregnancy, birth, and newborn care? Join the Mama Pathway for all the support you need to be in the know. https://www.facebook.com/groups/ideservebirthsupport/

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01/21/2022

"I don't know how you do that."

"I could never."

"My pain tolerance is too low"

"You're so brave."

"I never could have done it without drugs."

Most women have average pain tolerance with a normal amount of willpower.

Women who have natural, uninterrupted births are not super heroes, they are just like you.

The difference is usually preparedness. Not always. Sometimes you give it your all, you plan, you prep, you practice, and birth still doesn't go your way.

But usually, a mother who has a natural, unmedicated, uninterrupted birth finds her strength in knowing birth is normal.

She finds her will power in knowing this has been done since the beginning of time by ordinary women, not super heroes.

She knows the pain she is enduring now may increase but that only means she is closer to holding her baby and it won't last forever.

She is brave because she has her doula encouraging, assissting, and reassuring her that in fact, she CAN birth her baby just as women have for centuries.

You can birth your baby. Education and support are key in having the natural birth you want.

Find your support, educate yourself, but know that you have always had the ability to birth your baby.

01/09/2022

For some reason "baby whisperers" have decided that if a baby is fed and the right temperature then you don't have to pick them up and cuddle them if they cry. How this concept came to be I have no idea. How many times did you cry and need a cuddle even though you were the "right" temperature and had just eaten a hamburger? Just because someone is full and comfortable does not mean they don't need a cuddle.
Cuddle your babies.
Cuddle your children.
Every time.
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12/16/2021

Midwife Kendall had the honor of helping her new baby cousin come into the world!
Sweet Charlee May 💖
12.4.21

11/22/2021

If you'd told Camilla Kennedy five years ago that she would one day give birth at home, she says she probably would have laughed. But, just a few weeks ago, the 33-year-old did just that.