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11/24/2025

Unpopular opinion: Skipping the Vitamin K shot is not natural… it’s dangerous.💛

Newborns are born with almost no Vitamin K, which means their blood can’t clot the way it should.

That’s why babies without the shot are at risk for sudden, internal bleeding, even in the brain, with zero warning signs.

It’s called VKDB, & it’s REAL.

The Vitamin K shot has been safely used for decades & prevents over 98% of these life threatening bleeds.

If we’re protecting our babies, let’s protect them fully.

Vitamin K at birth. No debate.

* if for some reason, you are not comfortable with the shot, PLZZZZ look into the drops.

11/23/2025

It’s wild how easily we forget this:

humiliation has never made a human being rise.
Shame has never built cooperation.
Discomfort has never taught emotional safety.

We know this in ourselves —
the last time someone spoke to you with disrespect or made you feel small,
did you feel inspired to do better?
Or did something inside you shut down?

Children are no different.

If anything, their nervous systems are even more tender, their sense of self still forming, their trust in us the foundation they stand on.

Correction is necessary.
Guidance is essential.
But neither require wounding.

When a child feels seen, respected, and safe, their instinct is to meet you — to reconnect, to learn, to grow.

We don’t have to make them feel worse to help them do better. We just have to lead them in ways that honour their humanity, not compromise it. ❤️

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11/17/2025

Human milk is the only biologically active food on the planet.
It contains living cells, stem cells, immunoglobulins, lysozymes, lactoferrin, HMOs, hormones, cytokines, enzymes, microRNA, antimicrobials, antivirals, and over 1,000 molecular components that scientists are still discovering.

Every single feed triggers a biochemical feedback loop:
your baby’s saliva signals your mammary glands, your glands adjust the concentration of antibodies, and the composition of your milk shifts within minutes to meet that exact need.

Breast milk is not “liquid gold” because it’s cute it’s liquid gold because it is a dynamic, species-specific, immunologically active substance engineered by human evolution to protect human infants.

The more we study it, the clearer it becomes:
breast milk isn’t just nutrition it’s a living system.
A biological masterpiece that no lab has ever been able to duplicate.

11/13/2025

11/12/2025

11/12/2025

Why Aren’t More Breech Babies Born at Home? by Karin Peacock
I have fewer than 100 births under my belt. As a student midwife, I am always asking questions and wondering about the “whys” of birth. The majority of my birth work has been done within the walls of a free-standing birth center attended by local CNMs and CPMs and only serving low-risk mothers. However, after recently witnessing my first frank breech delivery at a homebirth, I realized how relaxed, gentle and normal breech birth can be. I can’t stop asking the world, “Why aren’t more breech babies born at home?”
https://f.mtr.cool/eobovbvoup

11/07/2025

An excellent article today from . Note the lack of evidence supporting the use of continuous fetal monitoring, the clear influence of business and economics, and the money grab from AI companies who claim studies support their product - when in fact they don’t - resulting in remote monitoring hubs.

I especially love that placenta accreta is described early in the article so the public can see that cesareans carry risk. As a result, we need to ensure that they occur only when needed or wanted.

Note that the photo for this article is of a remote monitoring hub. One such hub is up to 60 miles away from the hospital in which the woman is laboring.

“Nearly every woman who gives birth in an American hospital is strapped with a belt of sensors to track the baby’s heartbeat. If the pattern is deemed abnormal — too slow, for example — doctors often call for an emergency C-section.

But this round-the-clock monitoring, the most common obstetric procedure in the country, rarely helps baby or mother. Decades of research have shown that the tool does not reliably predict fetal distress. In fact, experts say, it leads to many unnecessary surgeries as doctors overreact to its ever-changing readouts.

The obstetrics field has long ignored these problems. Now, it’s putting more trust than ever on the flawed technology, often prioritizing business and legal concerns ahead of what’s best for patients, The New York Times found.

This fall, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists updated its guidelines on continuous monitoring, sanctioning it even as some other wealthy countries have cautioned against its routine use…

All three remote hubs, along with 400 other hospitals around the country, use A.I. software to help analyze the heart data. The software’s maker, PeriGen, has claimed on its website that 50 studies backed up its products.

But none of the studies found that the technology improved birth outcomes. PeriGen removed the list of studies after an inquiry from The Times. The company’s chief executive, Matthew Sappern, acknowledged that no clinical trials had shown benefits.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/health/electronic-fetal-monitoring-c-sections.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zE8.145f.FPhFANzFoVZp&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

11/06/2025

Whales breastfeed underwater through direct contact, where the mother sq**rts nutrient-rich, high-fat milk into the calf’s mouth from her mammary slits.

Instead of external ni***es, Mama whales have mammary glands hidden within slits on their abdomen that are surrounded by folds of skin.

The calf nudges the slits with its head, and the mother responds by releasing the ni***es for feeding. The calf then uses its tongue to curl around the ni**le and capture the milk being sq**rted into its mouth.

Mama uses her abdominal muscles to flex the mammary glands and forcefully sq**rt the milk into the calf’s mouth.

Milk composition: Whale milk is extremely rich in fat (35–50%) and protein, making it very thick and nutritious. This consistency ensures it is easily consumed by the calf and does not easily dissolve in seawater.

The high-fat milk allows calves to grow rapidly. For example, a blue whale calf can gain about 200 pounds (90 kilograms) per day.
Nursing sessions are short, sometimes lasting only 23 seconds, but they can happen frequently, especially during periods between foraging.

The length of nursing varies by species. Baleen whales, like humpbacks, may nurse for about 6 to 9 months, while toothed whales like belugas can nurse for 20 to 30 months.