Village Birth Collective

09/22/2019

👉 Delayed cord clamping has been creating a buzz in the birthing world in recent years. Some hospitals have even implemented it as standard practice! 👈
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🌈 Did you choose to delay cord clamping as part of your birth plan? 🌈

09/19/2019

As childbirth educators and other perinatal professionals, we often talk to the families we work with about the benefits of delayed cord clamping for the healthy newborn (Mercer, 2018). There are also known benefits for delayed cord clamping for the preterm infant as well. (Fogarty, 2018). Note: Isn...

08/20/2019

A young boy has been praised online after a heartwarming photo of him helping his father give skin to skin contact to his premature twin siblings went viral. Love this! (Credit: Facebook/NINO Birth)

08/08/2019

Science is finally coming around to the fact that having a baby after 35 can be beneficial and age should not be considered a deterrent for healthy women.

06/13/2019

Our time bed- sharing with Lewis has always been so so precious. Grateful to have trusted our instincts. It is so so safe when you are a low risk family with a low risk baby and it helps you get more sleep too. I am certain that its contributed immensely to how relaxed of a kid he is, how secure he is in our nurturing, how aware of his body he is, and that we've had minimal up all night sessions.

"We're now talking about safer bed-sharing," he says. "And that takes all the steam out of the controversy."

Let us know what you think... do you bed share or co-sleep???

Many doctors in the U.S. say the practice puts an infant at risk of sleep-related death. A close look at the research reveals a different picture.