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Peaceful Birth Method, Eugene, OR (2025)

12/20/2025

How to avoid the fear-pain-tension cycle during birth:

1️⃣ Create a supportive environment around you with people that help you feel safe. When your environment supports your feelings of safety, you’re better able to relax.

2️⃣ Develop a relationship with your fear throughout pregnancy. Understand what your fears are. Recognize your fears as a part of your growth. Feel your fears fully, instead of resisting them.

My free birth covers my favorite ways to work through fear in pregnancy.

👉🏻 Drop the word “BIRTH” in the comments and I’ll send you the link 💖

With love, Victoria

12/18/2025

Here’s what you should know about “advanced maternal age…”

First I want to emphasize that pregnancy is a sign of health, and turning 35 does not automatically make you “high risk.”

Advanced maternal age is associated with some increased risks, but the absolute risk for most outcomes remains low, especially for healthy pregnancies.

Many risks often attributed to age (like stillbirth or cesarean) are strongly influenced by factors such as overall health, chronic conditions, prenatal care, and pregnancy history, not age alone.

emphasizes that age by itself is a poor predictor of birth outcomes and should not automatically dictate interventions.

Evidence does not support routine induction or extra interventions based solely on age without considering the individual’s full clinical picture.

Parents over 35 can and do have physiological, uncomplicated births especially when care is individualized. 🙌🏼

You’ve got this!

Drop the word “BIRTH” in the comments and I’ll send you the link to my free birth course✨

With love,
Victoria

12/18/2025

I’m teaching a live training this Friday all about preparing your body for birth and supporting optimal positioning. 🤗

Drop the word BIRTH in the comments and I’ll send you the link. 💖
Can’t make it live? Join anyway — I’ll post the replay after.

Your baby’s position impacts how you experience pushing.

This is a layer of birth preparation that often gets missed.

The terms OA and OP describe how your baby’s head is positioned in relation to your body.

When a baby is occiput anterior (OA)—with the back of their head toward the front of your body—they can move through the pelvis more easily, and this position supports the fetal ejection reflex, the body’s natural, involuntary pushing response.

When a baby is occiput posterior (OP)—with the back of their head toward the mother’s spine—labor can feel very different.

Because of how the baby’s head applies pressure, some parents with an OP baby don’t feel the urge to push at all, even when fully dilated. This can lead to longer, more exhausting labors and more discomfort.

Here’s what I wish every mom knew:

✨ Baby positioning isn’t random.
There are simple, intentional ways to prepare your body for birth that support optimal positioning before labor even begins.

✨ Baby’s are very wise in knowing what position to get into for birth.
They’ll often compensate for lack of space due to tension. But, if that tension is never resolved it can lead to harder births.

Taking steps during pregnancy to support your body and baby can make labor and pushing smoother.

👉🏻 Drop the word BIRTH to join my live training on preparing your body this Friday!

With love,
Victoria

12/18/2025

Make this one shift in your birth preparation to make birth less painful…

A lot of parents learn about the basics of birth.

They take the weekend hospital birth class and learn about the fundamentals.

They learn about coping tools like hydrotherapy and the birth comb.

It’s important to understand the basics and have labor coping tools.

But what if you could reduce the amount of pain you may experience birth beforehand?

Taking steps to prevent positioning issues can support labors in being smoother and easier.

👉🏻I’m teaching a live training this Friday on preparing your body for birth. 🤗

Drop the word BIRTH in the comments for the link. 💖

If you can’t make it, join anyway! I’ll post the video after.

With love,
Victoria

12/17/2025

Join my free live training this Friday focused on preparing your body for birth ✨

Drop the word BIRTH in the comments 🤗

Most parents don’t realize that coping with labor STARTS in pregnancy, with preparing your body.

Supporting the musculature in releasing tension around your pelvis will support your baby in aligning optimally.

Optimal position helps baby navigate easier, and takes pressure off your back. (hallelujah) 🙌🏼

Positioning issues can lead to unnecessarily long and painful labors. And we don’t want that for you! 😘

We’re going to cover how babies move through the pelvis, how to reduce unnecessary pain related to positioning, the role of the pelvic floor in labor, and more! 🤗

Workshop is Friday at 12 PM PST | 1 PM MST | 2 PM CST | 3 PM EST

Drop the word “BIRTH” in the comments and I’ll send you the link💖

With love,

Victoria

12/17/2025

Compound presentation ✨

This is a rare presentation, where the baby is born with a hand by their face.

How it can affect labor:
• It may make descent slower
• It can increase discomfort
• In some cases, it may raise the likelihood of interventions—but often it resolves naturally with patience and positional support

What to do if this happens:
• Allowing time
• Encourage position changes
• Avoid unnecessary early pushing
• Spinning babies positions

Compound presentations, face presentations, and other forms of positioning that are alternative to the standard OA (anterior) position show me just how INCREDIBLE birth is.

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With love,
Victoria

12/17/2025

When I ask a partner about their role before taking my class, there’s a lot of “I guess…” and “I think…” 🤔

Partners know how they want to show up, but they don’t have the roadmap to getting there.

I like to teach that the role is very simple… to be present, loving, and help mom relax. 💖

When mom is relaxing, you’re supporting…

-softness in the muscles, helping the baby to progress

-entering each contraction from a place of surrender, supporting coping

-oxytocin needed for labor to be effective and strong

I teach partners everything they need to know to feel prepared in my ✨free✨ birth course.

Just comment the word “BIRTH” and I’ll send you the link🫶🏻

With love, Victoria

12/17/2025

One of the reasons why birth can be super long and painful CAN be prevented.

👉🏻 positioning issues often occur due to tension in the musculature that surrounds the pelvis.

Position issues, meaning baby is having trouble navigating the pelvis, can make labor last longer and be more uncomfortable.

Here’s some things you can do to support flexibility in those muscles in the third trimester:

1️⃣ The spinning babies 3 sisters of balance

2️⃣ Float on your belly in the pool 2x/week

3️⃣ Avoid reclining. Spend time in hands-and-knees, leaning over a birth ball at home. Rest in side lying or sitting upright with pillows.

Drop the word “BIRTH” in the comments and I’ll send you the link to my free birth course✨

With love, Victoria

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12/16/2025

The reason why so many parents are terrified of birth is because it looks like an inherently traumatizing event.

Birth is traumatic when parents give birth in containers of violence.

Let’s go over the different forms of violence that come up and how you can protect yourself from it.

Examples of abuse in birth:

- Ignoring or dismissing your requests

- Performing procedures without informed consent

- Pressuring or coercing you into interventions

- Yelling, scolding, or speaking disrespectfully

- Threatening you with bad outcomes to gain compliance

- Denying you support people (when not medically necessary)

- Denying food, drink, or movement without evidence-based reason

- Performing vaginal exams without consent

- Continuing exams or procedures after you say no

- Touching you without permission

- Restricting your birthing position

- Separating you from your baby without medical need

- Withholding pain relief options as punishment or pressure

- Rough handling of your body or your baby

- Mocking, minimizing, or shaming your feelings

- Using racist, sexist, or biased language or assumptions

- Retaliation for advocating for yourself

- Not explaining risks/benefits/alternatives clearly

- Documenting false things in the chart to justify actions

You deserve to be treated with kindness, respect and human dignity. Here’s some ways you can protect yourself:

-Take an evidence-based INDEPENDENT birth class (not the hospital class). Mine is ✨free✨ just drop the word BIRTH for the link.

-Make a birth plan that uses language that keeps the power in your hands.

-Read reviews, interview providers, and choose your provider wisely. Everyone has different levels of access to care. Do your best to find a provider who you feel safe with, as early as possible in pregnancy.

-Have a doula or trained birth professional at your birth, independent from the hospital.

-Use informed decision making, tools like BRAIN, and other advocacy tools.

Drop the word “BIRTH” in the comments and I’ll send you the link to my free birth course✨

With love, Victoria

12/15/2025

Delayed cord clamping isn’t some fancy option that only crunchy moms choose.

Delayed cord clamping is essential. It is deeply supportive to your baby’s health, and part of nature’s design.

What do you think we did over thousands of years of human history before the 1900s when immediate clamping was introduced?

They allowed the baby to get their full blood volume. ❤️

Disrupting this normal, biological process became standard of care for no reason.

And now for some moms, they feel like they have to fight to protect this very safe, evidence-supported choice.

If you want delayed cord clamping, you can write on your birth plan “do not clamp the cord until I tell you it’s okay.”

Talk to your provider about how it’s important for you to give verbal consent before they cut the cord.

Make sure your birth team knows that this is what you want.

Too many parents are disappointed to discover the provider clamped at 60 seconds, when they were wanting to wait until the cord was done pulsing.

Drop the word “BIRTH” in the comments and I’ll send you the link to my free birth course✨

With love, Victoria

12/13/2025

91% of the first 100 moms who followed my 5-step process did not tear. 💖

Why?

Because they learned how to push in a way that supported this normal, biological process that protects the perineum.

When we slow down in the presence of that pressure and allow the baby to crown, the tissues have a chance to stretch.

Bearing down consciously on top of spontaneous pushing effort can bring baby out quickly, skipping over this natural stretching process.

This is hard to do without the right kind of emotional preparation. You might feel the pressure and get overwhelmed—then add extra force to get the baby out! 😅 (what I did with my first)

But if you feel emotionally prepared and supported, in that moment you can use your tools to relax, allow the tissues to stretch, and baby to come slowly.

Here’s what the 5-step process looks like:

-emotional preparation
-warm compress
-perineal massage in pregnancy
-provider hands-off
-birthing positions (hands and knees, side-lying, standing…)

👉🏻 I teach this entire process and more in my free birth class 🫶🏻

Drop the word “BIRTH” in the comments and I’ll send you the link✨

With love, Victoria

12/12/2025

I’m offering something I’ve never offered before…

✨Free✨ regular birth plan building workshops to support parents inside my free peaceful birth academy.

Why is creating a birth preference sheet important?

A birth preference sheet is an advocacy tool you can use before going into labor, to reduce the amount of advocacy that may be needed later on.

Your provider isn’t comfortable with you birthing in a position other than your back?

It’s way better to learn about that, and have those conversations BEFORE going into labor. 💖

Birth preference sheets can help you:

-Clearly express your preferences to your team

-Understand what your options are in the process of making one

-Use language to keep the power in your hands during birth.

👉🏻 Drop the word BIRTH in the comments for the link to my free peaceful birth academy to join.

With love, Victoria

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