Mother Me Midwifery

03/02/2026

Another reason that you should NOT swaddle a baby and place it on its back.

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Did you know a newborn's spine is naturally C-shaped, not S-shaped? 🦴👶 Protecting that little spine means choosing a baby carrier that supports its natural growth curve. From cervical to lumbar development, the right carrier adapts as baby grows—month by month. Keep your little one comfortable and safely supported! 💚

03/01/2026

They told me I would feel pressure.

They said tugging. Pulling. Movement.

They didn’t say pain.

I remember lying there, staring at the ceiling tiles, trying to breathe through the nerves. My arms were stretched out, shaking. The blue drape was just inches from my face. My husband kept telling me I was doing great.

And then it started.

At first it felt like what they described — pressure. Heavy movement. Strange but tolerable.

Then it changed.

It burned.

It felt sharp. Deep. Wrong.

I said it quietly at first. “I can feel that.”

No one reacted.

So I said it louder.

“I can feel that.”

The room shifted. I remember the anesthesiologist’s eyes. I remember panic rising in my chest faster than the pain itself. My body felt trapped. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t sit up. I couldn’t escape it.

Tears just poured sideways into my ears.

I wasn’t supposed to feel this.

I remember begging them to stop. I remember someone pushing medication into my IV. I remember my husband’s hand squeezing mine and his voice trying to stay calm even though I could hear fear in it.

The worst part wasn’t just the physical pain.

It was the feeling of not being believed for those first few seconds.
The helplessness.
The vulnerability of being open on a table and realizing something wasn’t right.

Then I heard my baby cry.

And everything blurred.

They showed me my baby over the curtain, and I tried so hard to focus on that tiny face instead of what had just happened. I tried to push the fear down. I tried to tell myself it was over.

But trauma doesn’t end when the incision closes.

For months after, I would replay it.
The lights.
The smell.
The feeling.
The words “I can feel that.”

I carried guilt for not being “stronger.”
I carried anger that it happened.
I carried gratitude for my healthy baby.

All of it at the same time.

You can be thankful your baby is safe…
and still grieve what your body went through.

Both can exist.

And they do.

03/01/2026

6g of protein in each one!

Eating eggs during pregnancy may have powerful benefits for a baby’s brain. Research shows that infants born to mothers who regularly consume eggs demonstrate stronger memory, faster learning, and healthier overall brain development during their first year.

Eggs are rich in choline, protein, and essential nutrients that support neuron formation and synapse development. Choline in particular plays a key role in memory, attention, and cognitive function in early infancy.

Including eggs as part of a balanced diet during pregnancy can help provide the building blocks for optimal neurological development. These early advantages may have lasting impacts on learning and brain function.

The takeaway is practical. Simple dietary choices during pregnancy, like eating eggs regularly, can significantly influence a child’s cognitive growth and early brain development.

02/28/2026

…… how many years until they make significant changes? 😟

The standard method for closing the uterus after cesarean delivery, used for over 50 years, may be causing a host of long-term health issues for millions of women.

According to Dr. Emmanuel Bujold and Dr. Roberto Romero, leaders in obstetrics and gynecology, current closure practices—where sutures join the uterine lining with surrounding muscle—fail to restore the uterus’s natural structure, leading to serious complications.

Their exhaustive review reveals the risks: abnormal placenta attachment affects up to 6% of women, uterine rupture up to 3%, and premature births up to 28%. Many suffer pelvic pain (up to 35%), excessive bleeding (up to 33%), and endometriosis or adenomyosis (up to 43%). Such complications are linked directly to the scarring produced by the conventional closure method.

Bujold and Romero propose a nuanced technique: suturing tissues only of the same type, carefully reconstructing the muscle layer while leaving the uterine lining untouched for natural regeneration. Although this new method takes 5–8 minutes—twice as long as the traditional approach—the additional blood loss is minimal and outweighed by better outcomes for future reproductive health.

With cesarean rates rising globally, especially in countries like Canada where 27% of births are by C-section, prioritizing meticulous uterine repair is a critical public health concern. This shift in surgical thinking may help millions experience safer subsequent pregnancies and better long-term well-being.

📄 RESEARCH PAPER

📌 Emmanuel Bujold et al, "Uterine closure after cesarean delivery: surgical principles, biological rationale, and clinical implications", American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (2025)

02/23/2026

⚠️The first twelve weeks! ✅

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02/22/2026

Milk is made from blood.
Not a metaphor.
Not a poetic saying.
Actual biology.
Your bloodstream supplies the raw materials.
Your body filters them.
Transforms them.
And turns survival into nourishment.
So when you feel exhausted
drained
touched out
or emotionally empty
it’s not in your head.
Your body is literally choosing your baby anyway.
That’s not weakness.
That’s biological devotion. 🤱

02/19/2026

🍼🫶🏽 This is a lactating breast. Not cysts. Not inflammation. Not “toxic buildup.

Those little bubble-looking spaces?

They’re called alveoli and they’re where milk is made. ✨

Breasts are made up of thousands of tiny milk-producing sacs, clustered into lobules, all connected by a branching highway of ducts 🛣️🧬 that carry milk toward the ni**le.

When milk is present, those alveoli can look:
💧rounded
💧pale or white
💧full and distended

That white you’re seeing?
🥛 That’s milk.

Not stored in one big “reservoir.”

Not sitting in pockets.

Milk is made continuously in these tiny sacs and released when your body gets the signal, like baby suckling, hand expression, pumping, touch, even thinking about your baby 💞

🌸 A few important things most people were never taught:

🩸 Breasts are highly vascular, especially in pregnancy and lactation. All that blood flow supports milk production.
🧠 Milk ejection is hormonal, not mechanical. Oxytocin matters. Safety matters.
📚 This anatomy is normal. Functional. Brilliant.

So if you’ve ever seen images like this labeled as “disease,” “abnormal,” or “concerning”… that’s not your body being wrong, that’s education being missing.

✨ Your body doesn’t fail at feeding.
✨ Your breasts aren’t broken.
✨ This system has sustained human life for thousands of years.

Milk-making isn’t simple.

It’s alive, responsive, and powerful.

And it deserves to be understood, not feared. 🫶🏽🍼

♥️This is a conceptual illustration, not a literal or to-scale image of breast anatomy. It’s meant to show how milk-producing structures relate to ducts and blood supply, not what you would see in a real dissection. The physiology is real but the proportions are illustrative like what we would see in medical education all the time because real anatomy is too small, complex, and layered to photograph clearly sometimes. We often use illustrations in anatomy textbooks, lactation education, and physiology lectures.♥️

-Love,
Badassmotherbirther

𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐌𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞, 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞, & 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭!
Salud Articular

02/15/2026

This is a big one!!!!! Think about all the drugs that babies are exposed to during an induction of labor…..

Epigenetics is the branch of genetics that studies the different mechanisms that influence gene expression without direct modification of the DNA sequence. An ever-increasing amount of evidence suggests that such regulatory processes may play a pivotal role both in the initiation of pregnancy and in...

02/14/2026

When you know, you know.

02/12/2026