Seacoast Birth Network

12/24/2025

BEAUTIFUL BREASTFEEDING

12/24/2025

So Awesome!

Most "liked" birth position of 2025: Forward Inversion.

Doing inversions every day can help you lengthen and soften your uterine ligaments, as well as help resolve any twist in the lower uterine segment.

The weight of baby and uterus streeeeetches out those ligaments to reduce torque and helps baby get into a great position for birth.

⏩️For more info, visit our resources for parents and doulas at MotherboardBirth.com and make sure to check out our digital products shop!

12/24/2025

Jennie Joseph, an Angel in our time of need!❤️

12/20/2025

We are thrilled to welcome 16 mamas from all over the country who are ready to develop their advocacy and leadership skills, learn how to hold lawmakers accountable, and fight for policies that will help families not only survive but thrive! https://www.momsrising.org/blog/our-5th-cohort-of-risers-is-loaded-with-momentum-and-mom-power/?source=fb.mr

12/19/2025

12/19/2025

12/18/2025

Read the full article: https://linktr.ee/indigenousmidwifery

"Being able to give birth in the place of your choosing is a very empowering thing. It sets the tone of your own personal sovereignty as an Indigenous person.”
– Laura Mayer, Nipissing First Nation (Executive Director, National Council of Indigenous Midwives)

12/18/2025

Inspiration!❤️

12/17/2025

When is the right time to hire your doula?

Today! It’s never too early to start consulting with doulas to find the right one for you. But it’s also never too late. Sometimes families know they want a doula before they even know their pregnancy, and others realize at week 38 that the support of a doula would make them feel more confident.

Book your consultation for doula services today!

12/15/2025

Women of strength, it's a great day for a VBAC story! Meet Amanda, about her birth she writes...

"My first pregnancy started with fertility treatment and was complicated by insulin-dependent gestational diabetes leading to a c-section. I was overjoyed and so grateful for the birth of my son, but I also felt a sense of loss after the difficult journey to getting pregnant, and then preparing my whole pregnancy for labor and not being able to experience it.

In my second pregnancy I wanted to experience as much of the natural process of labor as I could and had my heart set on a hospital VBAC without an epidural. I listened to hours of VBAC Link stories to prepare. I was diagnosed with GD again, which changed the plan from going into labor naturally to being induced early. I tried everything to go into labor on my own (with OB approval) but was induced at 38+6 due to complications with my baby’s heart.

With the help of several carefully curated playlists, two combs, and a very supportive husband squeezing my hips every two minutes for hours, I made it through a 29 hour induction to have the unmedicated birth I dreamed of. Pitocin ramped things up so quickly during the last 4 hours of labor that my baby surprised everyone by almost being born onto the floor! Luckily my OB and nurses rushed in, helped me onto the bed and got my husband gowned up just in time for him to deliver our healthy baby girl. It was truly such an amazing and healing experience!

I am a perinatal mental health certified art therapist in FL! If anyone would like to learn more, find me !"

12/15/2025

What if we told women the truth about birth?

We’d have to tell them that contractions will probably be more than “surges” or “sensations.”

That they’ll probably rock your world and leave you begging for salvation as you clutch the edge of the tub or the hospital linens.

That your gentle breathing exercises and your Spotify soundtrack will be left in the dust as you sweat and pant and sway and swear your way through it

That you’ll trip harder than any mushroom you ever did in college and vomit with the same ferocity and travel to places deep within yourself that you didn’t know existed.

That you’ll float above your body and simultaneously be trapped in it with an intensity you’ve never tasted.

And in that intensity,
in the sweating and the swearing
and the swaying and the vomiting
and the endless hours of contractions crashing down upon you ...

You’ll find your strength.
You’ll find a resilience you’ve never known.
You’ll find the power you need for the journey of Motherhood ahead.

In the messy humanity of it all,
you’ll find that you are holy.
A portal to the divine.
Capable of indescribable miracles.
A vessel of sacred life.

What if we told women the truth about birth?
We’d have to tell them they are capable of anything.

Worthy of being treated like goddesses.
Made to walk through the flames,
surf the tidal waves,
dive into the underworld
And come out alive.

Not unscathed.
Not unchanged.
But whole
and healed
and ready to take on the world.

If we told women the truth about birth,
we’d have to admit that we’ve lied about everything else,
and that they are more powerful,
more fierce,
more capable,
more beautiful,
than we’ve ever let on.

If we told the truth about birth?
We’d shatter the world.

- Words and Art by Catie Atkinson

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