Uniquely You Birth

10/22/2025

Cyprus births are happening in January.

06/29/2025

Birthers near central Asia- I am now living here if you need me.

12/14/2024

First study of twin home birth published with PLOS ONE!
To read & download (free PDF): bit.ly/twinhomebirth

Kanab, UT, December 11, 2024, 2:00 pm EST -

This study follows 100 sets of twins attended at home by an obstetrician, the first publication looking exclusively at twin home birth. Overall, 91.3% of women gave birth vaginally, compared a national average of 25.2% for twin pregnancies. Most women with twin pregnancies in a hospital setting have few options but cesarean section, even though the evidence shows no benefit to surgery for the majority of cases. This study demonstrates that a home setting that supports physiological birth can yield excellent outcomes and a high vaginal birth rate.

The authors comment:

"Properly selected, motivated twin mothers can successfully birth in a home setting, if they have a supportive environment, a skilled practitioner, and a competent team of birth workers. Vaginal birth of twins, regardless of presentation (breech or cephalic) or birth location, is a reasonable option with excellent success rates in skilled hands and should be offered. Residency training programs should reinstitute the teaching of these skills to ensure that women desiring hospital births are not pushed outside the system. Professional medical organizations and state legislatures should recognize the value and dedication of midwifery care in the community and stop limiting choices, under the guise of safety, that rightfully belong to the pregnant woman. The goal should be to create a nurturing environment, where each woman is treated with dignity, compassion, and respect by a skilled twin practitioner and where her choices are not just tolerated but enthusiastically supported."

To read the study: bit.ly/twinhomebirth

If you would like more information about this publication, please call 805-455-8618 or email admin@birthinginstincts.com. For more information about the authors and their organizations, please visit Birthing Instincts (http://www.birthinginstincts.com) and Breech Without Borders (http://www.breechwithoutborders.org).

Contact: Raquel Hernandez
Phone: 805-455-8618
Email: admin@birthinginstincts.com

You are invited to read and comment on the paper.

08/13/2024

Hey all, January moms are filling up. Will be overseas February and have started filling March babies.

08/13/2024

Not to be confused with a doula in atlanta…

06/17/2024

hey everyone. won't have a phone till Tuesday. My phone went in the pool with me. midwife families, message me or email me if you need me. ughhhhhhhhhhh

01/04/2024

12/25/2023

There are 400 ads on my page. This is my page...how did all this junk get here 😡

10/10/2023

Birth is your choice. Less intervention and fear tactics lead to a healthier and safer natural birth

07/28/2023

“Trauma shocks the brain, stuns the mind and freezes the body” Peter A. Levine Ph.D.
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"Before this century, newborns found themselves in the hands of women: mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and midwives, but in the 20th century, infants collided head-on with physicians, typically male physicians. In the collision, infant senses, emotions, and cognitions were usually ignored. Doctors eventually gave serious attention to the pain of mothers but not to the pain of infants. Pediatricians and obstetricians created painful routines which continue today."
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Excerpt from "Babies Don't Feel Pain: A Century of Denial in Medicine" by David B. Chamberlain, Ph.D.
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This had me wondering how protocols are in place to create routines that are dependable, familiar, comfortable. For whom though?
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Trauma occurs when the focus of the protocol is solely on the routine and not on the person receiving it. Our world is awash with trauma. We need to start paying attention to how we can turn this tide around.
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Prenatal and perinatal psychology studies the health from conception to 2 years of age. It is a field that is growing and the findings are already astounding.
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Everything that occurs during conception, pregnancy, birth and early childhood affects who we are and our health as well as the foundation for future generations!
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I have often said we can heal our world in one generation by changing how we care for pregnant people and how we birth our babies!
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We need to step up and create a change whereby pregnant people and newborns are given the respect and the attention they deserve.
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In our current birthing climate we are backsliding. We are losing the foothold we fought so hard to achieve! Hard earned rights are being denied.
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Protocols are being put into place that do not serve birthing families. Protocols that cause caregivers to follow procedures instead of people.
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Raise your hand if you are ready to take a stand to protect human rights in childbirth 🖐🏻