Birthing Babies Midwifery Care

05/14/2022

04/26/2022

NUTRITION is the FOUNDATON of a HEALTHY PREGNANCY 🥑🥥🍎🍇🍋🍉🍊🥕🥔🍆🍗🌭🌮🍔🥓🍳🥚🥦🍓🥬🍒🥝🍍🍌🧅🧄🥒🫑🌶🍅🥩

We recommend you eat 80 grams of protein a day. Yes that’s a full time job! Protein is what grows your baby, uterus, extra blood, breasts, placenta, etc. Protein is critical for a healthy pregnancy. It stabilizes your blood sugar and keeps your blood pressure down. And it doesn’t have to be meat. We have plenty of vegetarian and vegan clients who are able to get enough protein in their diets. This is a great chart with protein options!

04/19/2022

"See that tiny pink bead on my lanyard? That is the size of a newborn's tiny tummy. When baby is born, the birthing parent produces colostrum for baby, which is the perfect for baby. Colostrum contains just the amount of food baby needs and passes antibodies. It's ! In this photo, I have a standard 2 ounce bottle of formula that is given to new babies. So, if baby's belly is only the size of a marble, what happens when baby is fed 2 ounces? Well, baby will usually spit up all the extra, which then can be spinned into baby having reflux. When really, baby is just being over fed. This leads to interventions like formula changes, antacid medications, etc. It's important that we give families all the available information so they can make the best decisions for their families. " available from www.birthingandbreastfeeding.com/store

04/06/2022

April is Cesarean Section Awareness month. As PT’s, we consistently advocate for parents to prepare for birth and it’s unpredictable twists- as well as return to PT once cleared by their MD post birth. Parents who have birthed via c-section: this means you, too! Why is it important and what can we do to help?⁣
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〰️ Some persons find they have painful s/e/x postpartum regardless of method of birth (we treat this and it’s root causes)⁣
〰️ It is crucial to pair diaphragmatic breath with pelvic floor contraction and TA engagement for core control⁣
〰️ In phases of scar healing, we can teach you scar release/make adaptive changes to scar tissue easiest during initial stages of healing⁣
〰️ Say no to the shelf or apron! (IYKYK) ⭆⭆⭆ yes, we can help and it’s not about weight loss⁣
〰️ Education on hormones, body changes, progression⁣
〰️ Scars can be adapted many, many years post so you’re not too late⁣
〰️ Scar tissue & restrictions can prevent Diastasis Recti from fully healing⁣
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Our DPTs are so highly skilled, we can use various techniques at the muscles of the abdomen, the myofascial bundles along the c section scar (whether this is a new scar or a very old scar!), such as the dry needling you see Dr. Jana performing here. Call us to be seen at one of our 4 locations! (410) 601- 3991.

04/06/2022

PREGNANCY TRUTHS

Make room for baby!

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03/31/2022

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There comes a time in labor where many women, when undisturbed, reach a point where they feel like they are about to die. When all the tools and breath and movement that has supported them this far are no longer enough. She begins to feel more and more alone, isolated in her experience- even when being held by a loved one. Her body feels like it is breaking in half, and there is no way back. She moans and cries and screams. She proclaims she can’t anymore. “I’m dying.”,she says. She tries to find comfort but it eludes her. This breaking of the vessels is the secret of creation and in labor a woman is the embodiment of creation. As a midwife, this is a vision I revere. My entire being pulses with love and admiration as I behold a woman who has fully surrendered and allowed the wisdom of birth to fully engage with her body. I see greatness. I see primal power. I hear holy sacred screams that rise from the core of the earth to open the heavens and make space for the new soul to come down.
📷 Josephine Neubert

03/19/2022

Treating her patients well is not the only reason that Joseph has become one of the pre-eminent advocates of—and a national role model for—midwifery in the U...

03/08/2022

Friendly reminder to order or pickup your birth certificate!
How old was your baby when you finally got around to it? 😝