Aspen Brooke Snyder, Doula

01/15/2024

The amazing ladies of Divine Connections- and I, are hosting a sourdough class at the end of February! Super excited to teach others the magic of sourdough! ✨

Join us, bring a friend, learn a new skill, meet like minded people, and enjoy fresh bread 💛

11/25/2023

The first 40 days of your postpartum period, Will dictate the next 40 years of your life.

In a culture that celebrates bouncing back, and working out weeks after having a baby, let’s start to normalize, resting, nourishment, and true whole body healing.

If you’ve been told that it’s normal to jump on the trampoline and p*e yourself, to sneeze and not be able to control your bladder you have been lied to 

Because of coached pushing, and the lack of physiological birth process in our society, more and more women are dealing with pelvic floor issues. One of the most important things that you can research before birth is, how to holistically support your pelvic floor.

This episode is a great start

‎Show Free Birth Society, Ep Healing Prolapse, Diastasis Recti, and Tearing with Rebecca Cohen - Nov 24, 2023

03/24/2023

Oh, how I'd love to go back to those first weeks and months. I was ever-present, yet never really there at all.

My head was elsewhere, caught up in all the shoulds, in the baby books, the apps, the impossible schedules; all the perceived perfections of motherhood that felt so at odds with what you were telling me you needed.

I followed my heart every single time. But never with conviction. Always apologetically as though I were somehow giving in. Not doing it right.

I fought it. Like a quiet war. It was exhausting.

I'd love to go back and mother that version of you, but as this version of me; the mum I am today.

More relaxed, more rested, more sure, no longer seeking approval, embracing the fact that I will be happily rocking my boy to sleep until he doesn't need it anymore.

It's not just our babies that grow.

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Art by: Amanda Greavette Fine Art

Words by Karen McMillan (Mother Truths)
Taken from "Lessons: Reflections on Early Motherhood"
Available to buy worldwide: https://linktr.ee/mother_truths

02/14/2023

I often think about how if the hospital really had the mothers best interest in mind than there would be a birth pool, tub, and shower available to a mother at ALL times.

The amount of times I’ve heard a mother tell me “my nurses and doctor wouldn’t let me get into the shower”.

This tells me a few things. Epidurals are BIG business costing around 1,000 or more. This gives doctors and providers very little incentive to support natural physiological birth besides the very real fact that the same providers are not witnessing normal physiological birth.

Take a second and really think about that, your care in the hands of those who’s entire education, ideology, and birth knowledge is wrapped up in big business, tools, and interventions. Birth was NEVER designed that way.

because if this was widely accessible I can pretty confidently hypothesize the rate of natural birth would go up and epidural use would go way down.

In the home birth world a mothers first choice for pain management is usually warm water, in the shower, bathtub, or birth pool. Floating, weightless, moving through contractions. I’ve seen mothers smile, laugh, and take the biggest sigh of relief when their body hits that warm water. Most of these mothers go on to birth their babies in that same warm water, a transition much like the warm submerged womb their babies came from.

My biggest tip as always is to explore home birth, explore ALL your options, I believe deep in my heart and soul that normal physiological birth does not belong in a place of sickness, allopathic medicine, for profit hospitals. Birth in design is not a medical emergency.

We’re you respected to use this amazing natural resource, and given the choice of water therapy during labor?

Women, maidens, mothers, everything you need is inside yourself. You are an incredible human, designed to birth your baby

None of this should be taken as medical advice, birth is not a medical event.

-Aspen Brooke

02/01/2023

What is the most bio available prenatal? What if I told you you’re not going to find it in a package of vitamins.

Our ansestors have relied and praised organ meats for their nutrient density, Especially in pregnancy.

I take liver weekly to prep my body for my future pregnancys, grassfed liver is a super affordable, bio available form on nutrients that your body can absorb. I get mine at Copia Farm

Could the key to fertility and healthy pregnancies be hidden in our past?One of the biggest questions facing women today is“what foods should I eat for a hea...

01/16/2023

As a doula wittnessing a mother being induced with Pitocin, the nurse coming in every 30 minutes to turn up the dial. The mother screaming in pain while she was dilated at a 2. After 5 of these torturous contractions begging for the epidural that she didn’t want in the first place.

Tips for avoiding induction,

stand firm on your rights as a mother and decline unnecessary  induction. 40 weeks, holidays, water breaking without contractions, or a big baby isn’t a reason to medically induce a mom. Unless there’s a medical risk your rights are to decline.

When your body goes into labor naturally, eat a nourishing meal, drink liquids and p*e often.

If you are planning to go to the hospital wait as long as you can, walking, bouncing, and swaying with your partner, having a partner, family member, friend or doula apply counter pressure, and hip squeezes. Once you’re ready to enter in, ask for a hep-lock on your arm so you can move freely around the room, sitting on the toilet, and doing the previous things mentioned. You do not need to have continuous fluids, especially if you’re hydrating your body.

Water is your friend and if you can take a hot shower, or apply counter pressure, contractions are manageable if your body is contracting naturally without any augmentation. Breath work, imaging your contraction as a wave are all great pain management.

Plan a home birth 🙂

Education is key here, know your rights as a laboring mother!

01/06/2023

Posting this to update my doula match profile, please as always reach out to me with any questions about doula care!

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