Mother Birth Doula Services, LLC

10/30/2022

10/30/2022

I'm sure when we were younger, we all read the book "Are you my Mother?" where the little hatchling leaves the nest before imprinting on his mum and spends the book looking for her. 🦆
This is usually the kind of imprinting we are all aware of.

But did you know that our babies undergo a form of imprinting where their primal experiences lay down neural pathways forming the basis of how they experience life – from a base of fear or connection. 🤯🤯🤯

This means that all of the experiences you go through in pregnancy, labour, birth and postpartum have the ability to imprint on your baby and change how their brain develops and responds to stress triggers, as well as other external stimuli throughout their life.

We have become so complacent about birth that we just accept the role of technology and medical interventions in our birth space. We know they cause us great stress and trauma, yet we accept unnecessary interventions as being par for the course rather than looking at them as the godsend they are...when we need them for true medical emergencies.

But what if we start to look at the trauma they're causing our babies. What if we acknowledged that it's not just us being traumatised, but our precious little bebes who will grow up changed by their birthing experience. Then do we start thinking about medical interventions differently?

For me, this sounds like a pretty good reason to do a deep dive into birthing without interventions!

Some questions to mull over...

Is it just a coincidence that rates of anxiety, depression and other mental health issues have all risen in line with the prevalence of birth interventions?

What about the levels of drug and alcohol use in society...do they correlate with the use of numbing medications and interventions in birth? 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

How has your birth experience imprinted on you?
Do you know? Have you thought about it?

Are you a forceps baby that now has trouble completing tasks because you feel like you get stuck or hit a wall before you finish? Or maybe you had a restrictive nuchal cord and now can't stand tight clothes or collars?

Coincidence? 🤔

10/01/2022

08/28/2022

Happy Friday 🙃
sons

08/23/2022

Thanks for the chuckles.

08/18/2022

08/07/2022

Giving birth is powerful, intense, hard, and so incredibly life changing ❤️

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⚡ Parir é poderoso, orgásmico, intenso, maravilhoso e normal!

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08/07/2022

4 out of 10 birthing parents deliver with Medicaid as their insurance but Medicaid ends within 60 days after birth in more than half of US states. Their partners are not provided coverage of any kind.

With almost 20% of birthing parents and almost 10% of partners suffering from perinatal mental illness, many of which are not diagnosable before 3 months, this means a very large percentage of new parents are left with no way to afford mental health care.