The Holistic Center

11/26/2025

Here is my autobiography. I wanted to introduce/reintroduce myself since I have changed and added a lot to my practice. I am always learning and growing. My business started off as just a birth doula in 2018 and has flourished.

✨I’m a holistic health & wellness professional specializing in fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, and women’s health.
🌿 As a certified naturopathic practitioner & birth doula, I support mind, body, and spirit through natural remedies, emotional care, and pain relief during labor.
💫 As a Womb Light Master, I integrate spiritual energy healing to empower women’s health.
👶 With experience as a childbirth educator & lactation consultant, I guide families through pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding.
🌀 Trained in Spinning Babies, rebozo, reflexology, and equipped with first aid & life support skills, I bring both safety and comfort to my practice.
📚 Currently studying midwifery to deepen my impact, I’ve proudly served in maternal healthcare for 7 years (soon to be 8!).

🤱Mom of 4 • 💍 Proud veteran wife
💖 Emotional, outspoken, honest, loving & raw ✨
📱 I may come off strong online, but behind the posts is pure passion 🌟
🙌 I know I’m not for everyone—and that’s okay. I choose authenticity so I can truly serve my clients 💕
🌿 Here to be myself while nurturing & empowering everyone in my life and who I meet.🌸

11/18/2025

A single NICU infant may be touched 20, 30, even 50 times per day, depending on their condition.
And those touches come from multiple categories of staff.

NICUs average 10–22 different staff touching a single infant per 24 hours.
(Respiratory, nursing, techs, fellows, attendings, students, transport, phlebotomy, radiology. It is never “just the nurse.”)

• 40% of hospitals operate with NICU staffing below recommended ratios.
(That’s straight from multiple state audits, including the 2024 Lehigh Valley audit.)

• Hospital-acquired infections account for 9% of all preterm infant deaths.
NICU babies are the most vulnerable population to central line infections, respiratory pathogens, and contact contamination — all directly tied to how many hands cycle through the unit.

• A 2023 multicenter NICU study showed 1 in 4 babies experienced a preventable harm event.

• Premature infants average 200+ separate handling events in the first 10 days.
That number goes up with lower gestational age and with understaffing.

• Turnover in NICU nursing is now 20–30% annually in many regions, which means
more unfamiliar staff + more agency nurses + more handoffs = higher error rates.

• Every additional staff handoff increases the odds of a medical error by up to 58%.
This is published data. Not opinion.

• NICUs routinely use providers in training (residents, fellows, NPs, students). That’s not a criticism — it’s a fact. But it also multiplies the number of people performing procedures, exams, line checks, and care tasks.

Whose hands are on your baby.

https://open.substack.com/pub/abbythemidwife/p/whose-hands-are-on-your-baby-in-the?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=6ctqe7

You need to read this.

Tell me your thoughts in the comments.

11/18/2025

Let me just say this louder for the people in the back who still swear every breastfeeding mom needs to “pump and dump” if she even looks at a margarita:

You. Can. Drink. While. Breastfeeding.
No, that’s not an opinion. That’s not “reckless.” That’s science.

Your breastmilk doesn’t magically turn into tequila the second you take a sip. Alcohol enters your milk the same way it enters your bloodstream in the same tiny proportions. If you’re sober enough to safely hold your baby, you’re safe to breastfeed your baby. Period.

But oh, the judgment.
You’d think a mom having a glass of wine after surviving a 16-hour cluster feeding marathon was committing a federal crime. Meanwhile, Aunt Karen is on her third rum-and-Coke at Thanksgiving while lecturing you about “responsibility.” Make it make sense.

And for the record…
Pumping and dumping does NOT speed up alcohol leaving your milk.
Your body clears alcohol at the same rate in your blood and milk. You’re dumping liquid gold for nothing, except maybe to make a myth believer feel better.

Breastfeeding moms deserve joy. They deserve a night out. They deserve to toast to surviving another day of keeping a tiny human alive with their body. And if someone has a problem with that? That’s a them problem.

So here’s the truth they don’t want going viral:

You can breastfeed responsibly and enjoy a drink.
You don’t have to punish yourself because other people don’t trust mothers with their own bodies.
You don’t have to “pump and dump” unless you want to.

Some of y’all were fine with pregnant celebrities va**ng on TikTok but suddenly want to police a mom’s half-glass of rosé. The math ain’t mathing.

Cheers to the moms who love their babies enough to know facts over fear.
Cheers to the moms who refuse to be shamed over outdated myths.
And cheers to the moms who are doing their best every damn day with or without a wine glass in hand.

11/17/2025

Instead of giving in to your carvings, you need to support the body part that is signaling to you for help.

11/17/2025

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11/13/2025

With my first, my induction didn't take. I went home and within an hour I went back after my water broke. I wish I knew then what I know now. I would have stayed home longer after my water broke.