Wildmountaingypsy

10/22/2025

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10/19/2025

10/16/2025

08/25/2025

I never let them separate me and my baby in the hospital.

No, you’re not taking my baby “just for a few minutes.”
No, you’re not taking them for tests I can watch you do right here.
And no, I don’t want you taking them to the nursery so I can “sleep.”

I didn’t grow this baby for nine months just to hand them over to strangers behind closed doors.
Also, I don’t trust just anyone with my baby.

Every check.
Every weigh in.
Every little footprint.

You don’t get this time back.
You don’t get these first moments twice.

So if you need the reminder,
You’re allowed to say no.
You’re allowed to keep your baby with you.
You’re allowed to speak up and stay together.

Your birth.
Your baby.
Your rules.

©️Caty Sanderse

11/05/2022

09/14/2022

Yip this bub was born vaginally at home in the birth pool.
5.46 kg
12 pounds
3 hour labour
Intact Perineum
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The midwife had this to say.
“Stop telling women they can’t birth big babies vaginally “
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Midwife

07/26/2022

Many factors are at play for primal labor initiation, but one of the first steps in your babies journey earthside is the production and release of the protein: Surfacant.

In this image we witness the thoracic cavity being compressed within the birth canal which is resulting in fluid being expelled from the nostrils.

Prior to birth, the lungs are filled with amniotic fluid, mucus, and surfactant. As the fetus is squeezed through the birth canal, the fetal thoracic cavity is compressed, expelling much of this fluid. Some fluid remains, however, but is rapidly absorbed by the body shortly after birth.

The first inhalation occurs within 10 seconds after birth and not only serves as the first inspiration, but also acts to inflate the lungs. Pulmonary surfactant is critical for inflation to occur, as it reduces the surface tension of the alveoli.

UT Southwestern researchers found evidence that a substance secreted by the lungs of a developing fetus contains the key signal that initiates labor. The substance, called surfactant, is essential for normal breathing outside the womb.

A baby normally begins producing surfactant sometime between weeks 24 and 28 of pregnancy. Most babies produce enough to breathe normally by week 34.

"Our study provides compelling evidence that the fetus regulates the timing of its birth, and that this control occurs after these two gene regulatory proteins − SRC-1 and SRC-2 − increase the production of surfactant components, surfactant protein A and platelet activating factor," said senior author Dr. Carole Mendelson, Professor of Biochemistry, and Obstetrics and Gynecology at UT Southwestern

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Thewombsisterhood.com

06/13/2022

Nope 👇

Some facts about nuchal cords:

🔆 Nuchal cords are incredibly common, occurring in an estimated 1 of 3 births.

🔆 They are very rarely dangerous.

🔆 Fetuses receive oxygen through the umbilical cord, not by breathing through the mouth or nose, so a cord around the neck is not cutting off their air like it would for you or me. If the cord is left in tact, the baby can still be receiving oxygen from the placenta for several minutes after birth.

🔆 Most babies with a nuchal cord have one that is very loose and it can be simply slipped over the head after birth. There is usually no indication of the nuchal cord at all.

🔆 The main way for a nuchal cord to be harmful (if the cord is healthy) is if it is wrapped multiple times and is so tight that it compresses itself, thereby decreasing blood flow inside, or if there is a true knot so tight that it does the same (rare). The cord would have to be extremely tight to cut off blood flow between the body and brain.

🔆 Nuchal cord is very difficult to identify before birth, even with ultrasound.

🔆 You do not need to have a c-section solely due to a suspected nuchal cord.

🔆 Medications given during a birth induction/augmentation can cause erratic & extra strong contractions, causing heart decelerations in the fetus. If a c-section is performed and a nuchal cord is discovered, it is frequently blamed (though the cause was more likely the induction meds). This can lead the mother to feel her baby was "saved" by the hospital staff, when they may have actually been the ones to CAUSE the issues the baby was "saved" from.

🔆 A healthy umbilical cord is filled with a gelatinous substance called Wharton's Jelly that protects the cord vessels as a fetus twists and turns its way inside the uterus.

If you want to read up on the evidence on nuchal cord, visit my Instagram account () and scroll back to my post of that name.