As You Wish Doula Service

08/12/2022

07/17/2022

02/22/2022

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06/22/2021

Kissing babies helps them receive the exact composition of milk they need!!
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Couldn’t you just eat your babies ?

🤱🏼 That irresistible urge to plant kisses all over your child will also help to boost their immune system. ⁣
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🤱🏼When you kiss your child, you are sampling the pathogens on her skin, which are then transferred to your lymphatic system where you will produce antibodies to any bugs. ⁣
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🤱🏼These antibodies will then pass through your breast milk to your child and boost her immune system, adapting to your babies needs perfectly. ⁣
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Please remember it is especially important not to kiss other people's babies, stick to smooching your own.

06/19/2021

If you were told this, you were likely lied to.

Yes, even if your grandmother was told this, and then your mother, and then you. Just because someone said it doesn't make it true. It may have just made their job easier.

Except in cases where there has been previous damage to the pelvis (like broken bones from an accident) or a deformity (due to a disease like Rickets), your body WILL birth your baby if given enough time and the ability to move into the right positions (and, in rare cases, a little assistance).

When a provider says a pelvis is too small, they are usually referring to Cephalopelvic Disproportion (CPD). CPD means that a baby's head is too large to fit through the mother's pelvis. True CPD is incredibly rare and super difficult to determine.

Most of the time a diagnosis of CPD is given with absolutely no basis for the statement.

Once in a while a series of measurements called “pelvimetry” is used to determine the size of the pelvic outlet to see if the baby will fit. These measurements are basically useless, however, since they can’t account for the fact that your pelvis expands by up to 30% during birth, and your baby’s skull plates slide over one another to fit the space (forming a cone). You also can’t know a baby’s size before birth, since late term ultrasounds are notoriously inaccurate.

So, basically, they’re guessing.

More often than not, a diagnosis of CPD is due to lack of patience, an unnecessary induction, or other controllable circumstances. Many cases of “failure to progress” during labor are arbitrarily given a diagnosis of CPD.

Were you told that your pelvis was too small to birth your baby?

06/17/2021

Doulas are now allowed at St Francis!
I will be running a $100 special, to help celebrate!
Please share me with your friends!

06/17/2021

Doulas are now allowed back in Delivery rooms!!

The birth of your baby is a special time and we know how important it is to share that with those you love and who support you. Our current Visitation Policy for Labor & Delivery is:
- 2 support persons allowed in Labor & Delivery and Postpartum
- Infant’s siblings of any age allowed

12/26/2020

Merry Christmas from my family to yours.