Holistic Beginnings

04/16/2023

So beautiful.

Briпgiпg forth life is the мost Ƅeaυtifυl act, Ƅυt this 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 was eʋeп мore special Ƅecaυse it was the gift of sυrrogacy that broυght life to her frieпds.

04/17/2022

Useful Information for Hobby and Professional Photographers.

06/30/2021

These beautiful words! 💕

“I didn’t teach my membranes how to rupture, or my uterus how to contract, or my oxytocin how to rise...⁣
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No doctor commanded my relaxin to peak, or my cervix to dilate, or my sacral promontory to shift anterior-inferior, or my pelvis to translate laterally...⁣
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No one taught my baby how to extend her thorax when her spinal galant reflex was activated as my birth canal squeezed her right. No intellectual handed her a roadmap to guide her occiput-anterior as she crowned. She didn’t practice her cry before she breathed her first breath. She took no course on how to feed.⁣
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Yet here we are. ⁣
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Our bodies did the dance.⁣
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Together.⁣
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A design so intricate ⁣
Each step a puzzle piece ⁣
The intelligence innate⁣
not once did it cease.⁣
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Let go of the shore⁣
Your body, she knows.⁣
Each waves of contraction⁣
Brings her closer to home.” - ⁣
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06/04/2021

Many women include in their *birth plan* to wait ‘X’ amount of minutes before baby’s cord is clamped and cut. Or to wait until the cord has ‘stopped pulsating’.

These preferences may get misinterpreted or may mean different things to different people.

Very generally, within about 2 minutes of the birth, approximately 70% of cord blood has been transferred to baby. BUT everyone is different so this is why I say ‘watch the cord, not the clock’.

If you want to “wait until it stops pulsating” please be aware that this can be really subjective.

A strong cord pulse is obvious to most but a subtle pulse may not be so.

I suggest getting to know the visual changes of the cord that take place after the birth. Then you can use this as your guide. Not the clock.

At birth the cord is full, taut and colour rich - full of life basically 🙌🏼 It’s still working perfectly and you can easily feel (and often see) it pulsating 😍

After some time (it could be 5-10minutes) the Whartons jelly within the cord begins to liquify. This is nature’s in-built ‘cord clamping’. The cord then begins to move from full and taut, to flat and limp. The colour also changes to white or a silvery white.

So my simple message here regarding delayed cord clamping is to forget about waiting a certain period of time, but instead look for the visual cues. In other words *WAIT FOR WHITE*.

This ensures the residual one third of the baby’s blood thats within the placenta and the umbilical cord, can be transferred to the baby. Exactly when it is needed ❤️

- Reposted from BodyWise BirthWise - Naturopath, Birth Educator, Doula & Placenta Services
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12/02/2015

It's amazing how Erykah Badu can be both an old soul and a futuristic entity light years ahead. She is singularly timeless. Just one of the many, many superpowers of this mother/singer/songwriter ...

11/12/2015

What fantastic news!
https://www.facebook.com/polly.perez.9/posts/1276210289071788

The American Society of Anesthesiologists is an educational, research and scientific association of physicians organized to raise the standards of the medical practice of anesthesiology and to improve patient care.

10/31/2015

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01/11/2015

https://www.facebook.com/toLabordoulas/photos/a.436292253046.226369.167166898046/10153518243448047/?type=1

Sixteen infants were studied while they slept on their mother’s chest and in a cot by her bed. Monitoring revealed the baby’s heart to be under three times as much stress when he or she slept alone.

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01/02/2015