Mother Me Midwifery

11/16/2025

Women are amazing 🩷

Based on a Duke University study published in Science Advances in 2019, growing a baby is energetically comparable to or more demanding than running a marathon every day for 9 months. The study found that pregnancy pushes the human body to its metabolic limits over a long duration, in a way that is similar to elite endurance events but sustained for much longer.

Energy costs during pregnancy:

Pregnancy is an extreme feat of endurance because the body works constantly to grow a new human, even at rest.

📑Total calories: Pregnancy requires an additional 50,000 dietary calories over nine months. The mother’s body provides 96% of this energy.

📑Cardiovascular demand: To support the growing baby, a woman’s blood volume can increase by 30 to 50 percent, and her heart rate increases by 10 to 15 beats per minute.

📑Metabolic demands: The body’s resting energy use can rise by up to 30%, meaning it works much harder even when stationary.

While a marathon is a discrete event, pregnancy is a continuous process of biological transformation. The comparison highlights the total metabolic output over the long term. A woman’s heart, lungs, and metabolism work overtime every day for nine months, making pregnancy one of the most intense and sustained physical challenges a human body can undergo.

SOURCE: https://www.therunningweek.com/post/growing-a-baby-takes-more-energy-than-running-marathons-for-9-months-straight

10/31/2025

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is listed on the DTaP insert. It’s vaccine-induced death. 💉💉💉

10/23/2025

The 2025 Cochrane review on immediate and early skin-to-skin contact after birth highlights that further randomized controlled trials comparing skin-to-skin contact with ‘usual care’ are no longer ethical.

The findings show there is now enough evidence to make immediate skin-to-skin contact after birth the global standard of care, and as WHO already recommends skin-to-skin the standard of care, the authors argue that randomizing the separation of mother and newborn may no longer be justifiable.

Read more:
https://centerforbreastfeeding.org/cochrane-review-2025

10/01/2025

🚨 “Pit to Distress” – When Birth is Rushed 🚨

“Pit to distress” isn’t just about a medication.

It’s about a mindset of increasing pitocin quickly to purposefully place the baby in distress so it can end in a c-section often for the convenience of the provider.

🔹 What happens?
Pitocin (synthetic oxytocin) is started to speed things up. Instead of titrating slowly and watching how the uterus and baby respond, the dose keeps climbing higher and higher. Contractions pile on too strong, too long, too close together.

The baby eventually shows signs of distress (heart rate drops, decelerations). Suddenly, the provider calls for an “emergency” cesarean.

🔹 Why does this matter?
Because sometimes, this isn’t an accident.
-Providers are under pressure to manage multiple patients at once.
-Hospitals run on schedules, not physiology.
-The “standard” of care often rewards efficiency over patience.
-For some, a quick surgical delivery is faster than waiting through a long physiologic labor.

This means pitocin can be used almost as a tool to provoke distress often creating a medical reason to end labor sooner.

⚠️ The harm? Families may believe their body failed and trauma bond.

This type of pit to distress often ends in a cesarean due to fetal distress as that is the whole point.

This type of dangerous play with pit can also lead to brain injury for the baby.

Pit to distress IS obstetrical violence.

-Love,
Badassmotherbirther