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04/05/2026

Eating and drinking during labor is a human right. ✨And it’s backed by evidence.

For most of human history, people ate and drank during labor.

In many cultures, traditional meals and drinks were prepared for labor focusing on high-energy, easy to digest foods.

Because they understood that birth is an endurance event.

Imagine running a marathon without food or water.

It wouldn’t make sense.

Messing with a normal, physiological event comes with consequences, like low blood sugar in babies, fluid overload, exhaustion, and decreased uterine efficiency.

Eating and drinking during labor:

💗Supports energy and stamina

💗Helps prevent dehydration

💗May reduce the length of labor

💗Supports comfort and coping

💗Does NOT increase risk of complications

The concern that originally led to restricting food and drink came from outdated anesthesia practices that are no longer commonly used.

The rule stayed even though evidence changes.

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With love,
Victoria

birthprep

Alissa says: “I purchased multiple online birth courses with a variety of purposes, and I ended up with overlapping educ...
04/03/2026

Alissa says: “I purchased multiple online birth courses with a variety of purposes, and I ended up with overlapping education (i.e., advocacy, evidence-based birth practices, contraction coping tools). Having multiple courses to compare it to, Victoria’s course is excellent in its education, but it is unparalleled in its personalization.

Having her group coaching sessions was absolutely vital for me to have the tools I needed to successfully have the birth I wanted: an unmedicated water birth at home as a first-time mom. I was able to ask specific questions and prepare for birth from what I would call a triune approach: body, soul, and spirit.

The most significant example of this came two days before I had my baby when I was experiencing painful padromal labor. Victoria helped me work through emotional limitations that were ultimately the root of the pain.

When I went into early and active labor, the intensity of the contractions were never painful like they had been two days prior because she had helped me resolve the underlying issue. Victoria was also available while I labored at home to help my husband and I determine if it was really time to call the midwife.

Even though I have gone through her course, I plan to purchase her coaching program again whenever I’m pregnant with my second baby because her individualized coaching was so crucial that I can’t imagine not having it for another pregnancy, as every baby and every pregnancy is unique.
Do not skip this.

This should go at the top of your registry. I ate all the dates and drank all the raspberry leaf tea, but I could not have had the birth of my dreams without Victoria’s support.

You can prepare your body all you want, but you can’t exclude preparing your soul, and Victoria is the sherpa that you need for the whole journey.”

Thank you Alissa! 🥹

04/03/2026

A provider tells a mom to lie on their back…

Hold their breath…

Push as hard as possible to the count of ten.

Even though research has repeatedly shown that directed pushing, especially on your back, does not improve outcomes and often increases risks.

This is the definition of cognitive dissonance.

What we believe doesn’t match the evidence.

So we protect our beliefs rather than change our behavior.

Even though routine directed pushing is optional, and comes with risks.

👉🏻Directed pushing increases exhaustion

👉🏻It can decrease oxygen to baby during pushing

👉🏻It is associated with higher rates of tearing

👉🏻It can lead to more interventions

Yet this practice continues in many hospitals today
because changing long-standing habits is hard.

Because birth culture has been shaped by convenience rather than physiology.

Because when we’ve done something for decades, it can feel uncomfortable to question it.

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With love,
Victoria

04/02/2026

Tools that are “standard” “policy” or “the way we do things around here” are always optional.

And every hospital practices very differently, depending on how committed they are to implementing evidence-based practices.

Continuous fetal monitoring is a form of monitoring during labor that can be wireless, wired, internal or external.

In all its forms, continuous monitoring does increase the risk for cesarean without improving outcomes for babies.

There are normal variations in the baby’s heart rate during labor.

Listening continuously opens up the possibility for something called a false positive to happen.

This means that the provider may interpret a normal variation as concerning, and recommend a cesarean.

Continuous monitoring is necessary in high-risk situations, or if the parent has medications in their system that increase the risk for baby’s heart rate to drop quickly.

Otherwise, intermittent monitoring is a safe and evidence-based option for low risk families.

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With love,
Victoria

04/01/2026

“Purple pushing” (holding your breath and bearing down with all your might for 10 seconds) is outdated and actively works against your anatomy.

Pushing actively to get the baby to come out as quickly as possible is one way to address pushing.

Allowing the body to push spontaneously is another.

What matters is that you understand your options and you’re supported in your choices.

The physiological delivery process is often a two-steps-forward, one-step-back process.

This natural rhythm allows your perineal tissues the time they need to stretch slowly, which can reduce your risk of severe tears.

Adding extra force can skip over your body’s built-in protective process.

But simply knowing that you’re supposed to go slow isn’t enough, because in the presence of all that pressure, moms usually forget. 😅

Practicing and building emotional preparation tools can help you feel safe enough in that moment to slow down and allow the tissues to stretch.

👉🏻 Comment BIRTH for my free birth course 💖

With love,
Victoria



03/31/2026

Your body is not public property the second you go into labor. 🛑

Providers who understand true physiological birth won’t need to put their fingers in your va**na routinely to know what your body is doing.

If you were to sit with a mother in labor you’d see progress unfold without the need for exams.

The pattern will change, vocalization and tone shifts, and new coping tools are needed.

There’s nothing wrong with getting an exam during labor if YOU want one. But routine cervical exams are NOT evidence-based and don’t accurately assess progress.

Why?

1. Dilation is NOT a crystal ball. 🔮

You can sit at a “4” for six hours, and then go from a 4 to a 10 in twenty minutes. Or you can be walking around at a 4 for weeks before labor even starts!

2. It can interrupt your rhythm and hormones. 🧠

Labor is a primal process supported by oxytocin. Interruptions can cause the body to dump adrenaline, blocking oxytocin.

Interrupting your rhythm can make it hard to get back into it again.

3. The infection risk is real. 🦠

If your water is broken, every single time a gloved hand goes in, bacteria is pushed up toward the baby which increases the risk for infection.

Two reasons to get an exam in labor:

1️⃣ If it gives you meaingful information to change the course of action.

2️⃣ If it satifies YOUR curiosity. Other people’s curiosity is their problem.

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With love,
Victoria

If you’re worried about unwanted interventions during birth, I’m holding a free live training Friday April 3rd on how to...
03/30/2026

If you’re worried about unwanted interventions during birth, I’m holding a free live training Friday April 3rd on how to feel confident and prepared and reduce the risk for unnecessary interventions.

Comment BIRTH for the link to my free birth course and live workshop 💖

I’ll be covering the peaceful birth method, my 5-step process used by over 1000 parents in more than 50 countries.

My students who followed these steps had intervention rates 8x better than the national average.

0% had an episiotomy, 2% had pitocin induction, and 4% had a cesarean.

Join me live this Friday April 3rd at 4:00 PT / 5:00 MT / 6:00 CT / 7:00 ET

(Times alternate monthly to accommodate time zone differences)

You’ll learn practical tips to reduce your risk for unwanted interventions, and how to make evidence-based, informed choices.

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With love,
Victoria

03/29/2026

An 11lb baby and ZERO stitches required. 💗 How did she do it?

She ignored the directed pushing protocol “hold your breath and push like you’re pooping.”

Instead of adding forced and unnatural pressure, she approached it with softness.

Sometimes we have to work to get our babies out, especially if we’re not experiencing the fetal ejection reflex due to baby’s position.

But most of the time, normal physiologic pushing is about surrender.

Your body does the work, you relax and allow progress to be made.

The pressure will build, but you don’t push against that pressure on top of the spontaneous pushing efforts.

Your body knows how to push in a way that reduces tearing risk.

We just get in our own way, because we haven’t learned how to trust it, or how to surrender to it in the moment.

🌀 I teach you how to push and reduce tear risk in my free birth course.✨

Comment BIRTH for the link.🙌🏼

With love,
Victoria
milliebirthdoula

03/28/2026

Please DO NOT do any perineal stretching until you watch this video! 🛑

Despite what other creators online may say: perineal massage should NOT burn, and it should NOT hurt.

If you’re just aggressively stretching tissue… you’re missing out on the best benefits of perineal massage.

Perineal massage offers the opportunity to build a positive association with the sensation of pressure.

You literally need to create a brain pathway that says: Intense Pressure = I am safe = I can relax.

Stretching beforehand might not be very effective if, in the moment of crowning, you don’t have the emotional preparation tools to feel safe and allow your baby to emerge slowly.

Perineal massage is a way to practice relaxing into pressure, and feel safe in the presence of pressure.

I teach you how to do this in my free birth course! ✨

Drop the word “BIRTH” and I’ll send the link 🥰

With love,
Victoria

birthpreparation

03/27/2026

Your baby isn’t “stuck,” and your pelvis isn’t the problem. Let’s talk about fetal malpositioning. 👇

Tearing can be linked to a non-optimal position like an OP (sunny-side up) baby or an extended head.

But every pelvis is incredibly unique, and your baby is incredibly wise.

OP for example, is not always an issue.

I recently attended a 2 hour birth with no tearing and an OP baby.

Babies know exactly how to navigate your specific anatomy.

The trouble is that most parents in the US don’t take an independent childbirth class or recieve personalized support with physical preparation.

Tension in the body can impact the space baby has to navigate the pelvis.

Physical preparation and movement during labor + pushing will support optimizing space for baby to do what they’re meant to do.

👉🏻 Comment BIRTH for my free birth course 💖

With love,
Victoria



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