The Nesting Parent

12/02/2025

Such a great teaching tool.

11/29/2025

Sometime they need a little help transitioning from being a water baby to a land baby.

About 10% of babies need some support figuring out its time to breathe. Resuscitating newborns is a skill in our midwifery tool box that we do when needed. But like everything with home birth, we perform neonatal resuscitation on or next to the parents with their active involvement.

This photo caught by .weinstein is right when we completed providing breaths to a brand new baby with a bag valve mask on the parents lap with the umbilical cord attached.

11/29/2025

😂🤪🤷‍♀️

11/28/2025

We had the laziest and coziest feast day ever.

Wishing you all a happy feast day. ✨

11/26/2025

Glimmers from the week. ✨

Contemplating not getting out any of the holiday decor and just putting up what I can make this year.

11/25/2025

Next course! Advanced Maternal Blood Work Analysis by .maternity

If there is one area that I’ve been eager to dive into it’s been this!

11/24/2025

BEST (Birth Emergency Skills Training) was amazing!
We learned so much and had a blast hanging out together as a community. Something we rarely get to do with all of our crazy birth worker schedules. ❤️

11/19/2025

11/18/2025

Premature Ligation of the Umbilical Cord by Patricia Edmonds
The placenta and cord are, in effect, organs of the newborn. The cord develops from the same tissue that makes up the fetal side of the placenta and this tissue is contiguous with the baby’s skin. Cord clamping is the first medical intervention experienced by most humans as part of the third stage of labor. Delay in clamping and cutting of the umbilical cord improves neonatal cardiopulmonary adaptation, increases blood pressure, improves oxygen transport and red blood cell flow, reduces the number of days on ventilation and oxygen with sick and premature infants and reduces the incidence of anemia.
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