Taylor Bodell Birth Services

03/14/2026

The power in creating a plan, learning how things go at your place of birth and asking your questions is invaluable. Let’s prepare together 🌿

03/11/2026

Incredible! Breastmilk is truly magical 🪄

New study explores intranasal administration of mother’s milk in babies after hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy?

The rationale is compelling: human milk contains stem cells, growth factors, anti-inflammatory mediators, and neurotrophic factors, and intranasal delivery may allow biologically active components to reach the brain through olfactory pathways.

Treatment tolerated in all 10 babies in this pilot study

Many mechanisms involved in preterm IVH overlap with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) in term infants—neuroinflammation, oxidative stress, and impaired repair.

Could intranasal mother’s milk become a simple adjunctive neuroprotective therapy for term infants with HIE?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41776367/

03/03/2026

Interesting!

🚨 Recent research is challenging the CDC's strict guidelines on breast milk storage—especially for partially used bottles after feeding.

The CDC currently recommends using or discarding leftover breast milk within 1–2 hours after a baby finishes feeding from the bottle, to limit bacterial risks.

A 2026 German study (preprint on medRxiv, with 44 healthy full-term infants) tested this directly by measuring bacterial growth in leftover human milk after actual bottle feeds.

Main findings:

• Bacterial levels rose after feeding due to contact with the baby's mouth, but showed no meaningful further increase at 4 hours or 8 hours—whether kept at room temperature (~20°C) or refrigerated (4°C).

• Significant growth appeared only after 24 hours at room temperature.

• Refrigerated leftover milk stayed low-risk and stable for up to 24 hours.

For healthy, full-term babies, this suggests it's generally safe to:

• Refrigerate a partially used bottle and reuse it within 24 hours, or

• Leave it at room temperature for up to 8 hours when needed.

Unused pumped milk also proved more stable than the CDC's 4-hour room-temperature rule, with very little bacterial growth even up to 24 hours in many cases, consistent with other recent studies.

The current guidelines are understandably cautious, especially for preterm infants, NICU babies, or those with health issues, who should stick to stricter rules and check with a doctor.

For most parents with healthy babies, though, this new evidence provides real relief: less wasted breast milk, fewer stressful discards, and guidelines that better match actual safety data and everyday feeding life.

🔗 Full preprint: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.13.26346179v1.full-text

02/21/2026

Head over to Mother and Earth Kids for some fun goodies and deals today and tomorrow! We had so much fun playing, getting nails done and finding some great items! One stop shop for all our baby needs!

02/11/2026

What are your plans for your placenta? Have you heard of the benefits of encapsulation?

01/30/2026

We can create a birth plan together for you to take to your birth feeling prepared and empowered! This can be in home, via zoom or at Willow Tree!

01/29/2026

Have you heard of antenatal care? I provide this service to people who are interested in help preparing for their new addition(s)! Taking tags off baby clothes and washing them, putting together the baby swing, organizing the diaper bags and nursing stations, preparing meals to freeze for postpartum and so much more!

I created a master list of MUST-HAVES for a client this week and we went through what they need, what they have, what brands, what you can skip and so much more. It was the best time and so exciting for them, things start to get really real!

01/19/2026

I’ve been doing weekly yoga with a client and it has been so great for both of us! Helping her prepare for labor, connecting before her birth, building muscle and stamina and introducing techniques for birth!

01/18/2026

All of the January baby’s have arrived! Liberating Birth Services is the best team mate.

01/18/2026

Normalize actually buying off the baby registry.

Not the outfit you thought was cute.
Not the random gadget you swear “every baby needs.”
Not the 5th newborn onesie when the baby will wear it once (maybe).

Registries aren’t suggestions.
They’re a carefully thought out list made by sleep deprived parents who’ve researched, compared, panicked, and asked other parents what they actually need.

When parents ask for diapers, wipes, bottles, or a sound machine, it’s not because they lack style.
It’s because babies don’t care about aesthetics, they care about survival. 😅

Yes, clothes are adorable.
Yes, the tiny shoes are precious.
But what’s even cuter?
Not having to return 14 outfits while running on 3 hours of sleep.

Buy one fun thing if you must, but please, for the love of postpartum sanity, stick to the registry.

I promise… the parents will quietly love you forever.

01/06/2026

Postpartum care tips that really matter. Please don’t rush back to “normal” let your body recover, your mental health will also benefit.

12/02/2025

What a doula recommends you pack for the hospital? For a hospital packing guide comment guide