Oregon Placenta

02/24/2020

🤣🍽️👍

02/08/2020

Yep! Accurate!

Yep 🤣

10/03/2019

Just had a baby yesterday! I hadn't heard of placenta encapsulation when I had my last child 11 years ago! I always said I would do it if I had another. My placenta is dehydrating now! Excited to get to experience the benefits of placenta encapsulation for myself!

04/16/2019

Talk to your family, your provided, and WellMama.là

I still don’t get this...it is just mind boggling that screening throughout the postpartum period isn’t required when postpartum depression is the NUMBER ONE complication of childbirth. And that there are SO many hurdles to get this implemented as routine. This is common sense people!

04/12/2019

Did you lose your "princess crown" after baby came? 👑
We need to keep celebrating, recognizing, and appreciating the transition into motherhood?

03/04/2019

Nutrition and the placenta.

PLACENTAL HEALTH /// This temporary organ is one of the least understood miracles of pregnancy. The nutrients your baby receives, stress signals, thyroid hormone levels, and even the (pre-birth) transfer of microbes is dependent upon the placenta.
In my weekly research time, I came across a really interesting review article that explores the current (albeit limited) data on the placenta and how it may play a role in fetal brain development.
I can’t say the article had any directive takeaways that I can pass on to you (like” you need x amount of this nutrient to ensure x”—research is very rarely that clear), but it did help me appreciate just how crucial the placenta is to positive pregnancy outcomes.
From the article: “The placenta is not only a passive supplier of nutrients for the fetal brain but an active brain architect too; by the integration nutrient and prenatal stress signals into chromatin changes at specific gestational time windows; the placenta becomes involved in the structural designs and functional inter-neuronal connections of the developing brain, which may possibly determine the personality and the health status of the fetus and future adult.”
So far our understanding of the placenta is that its function is, at least to some degree, influenced by maternal nutrition. Genetic expression can shift in the placenta in response to poor nutrition (like calorie or protein restriction), which then affects the nutrient transfer/metabolic signals to baby and ultimately impacts brain development.
Reference: doi:10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2019.01.003

02/28/2019

Amazing! 🌈

02/26/2019

But seriously, I'm here for you!

Here's a laugh for the morning: Your doula will always be there for you. LOL

02/26/2019

I pressed on! 🌈

02/24/2019

Partners are so important! Wouldn't it be great to have them home!

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - When parents have a newborn child, it is understandably a huge undertaking and commitment. Couple that with the developmental necessity of "bonding" that babies require in the form of parental interaction and it's easy to see why many mothers take time off work. Such a common pra...

02/20/2019

How fun!!!

YO QUIERO TACO BELL.