Inland Empire Doula

12/14/2023

This is too beautiful not to share- such a beautiful labor and not to mention her voice during active labor is astounding 🎶❤️

12/05/2023

Are you looking for a doula to support your birth or postpartum journey? Contact us today for a free consultation! *link in bio

07/23/2023

03/07/2023

Oohhh those long births ♥️

11/12/2022

Avoid any and all "sleep trainers." Look for professionals that teach natural sleep techniques, including understanding newborn behaviors and the importance of night waking for feeding. Let them be little. Sleep progresses naturally. You can have routines that support sleep, but never ignore your newborn or abandon him when he needs you. Protect the relationship ❤️

11/08/2022

06/24/2022

Poor fetal position is one of the main reasons for a C-section. If having a vaginal birth is your preference, or you are trying for a VBAC, fetal positioning matters.

Doing the right exercises during pregnancy can help fetal positioning by creating balance in the pelvis. A balanced pelvis is important because it helps babies find the best way to navigate down and out.

Check out our blog to find more Optimal Fetal Positions (link in bio)

03/04/2022

When baby is in the outlet, or the bottom of the pelvis, we want to focus on internal rotation of the femurs, or knees in ankles out.

But what does that look like in different positions???

Check out this graphic for some visuals!

Want to learn more about pushing positions and how to approach pushing?? Check out our upcoming pushing webinar on March 8th at 730pm EST. This webinar will be recorded and available for download.

Sign up at MamasteFit.com/webinars

Or learn more in our Childbirth Education courses! We offer our courses in person (next one is this Sunday March 6), virtually via zoom, and online with pre recorded videos!

03/03/2022

Buddy Castle • The Cuppycake Song (feat. Amy Castle)

02/17/2022

02/10/2022

01/31/2022

It’s all fun and games
And sexy breathing exercises for birth
And romantic plans about how he’ll take the baby while you do yoga every day

Until you’re 10 days postpartum
Still bleeding and soaked in breastmilk
Riding a roller coaster of hormones and sleep deprivation
And your lovely partner forgets to pick up a smoothie on his way home from the grocery store

And you lose your sh✨t
Like sobbing into the bathroom sink
Like cursing his mother
Like wondering why you ever procreated with someone capable of such unimaginable selfishness

And then, when the storm has passed, and you’ve had a snack- you realize
Two shaky, raw, sleep deprived humans
Trying to be life rafts for one another
While sinking into the depths of exhaustion and stress
Keeping the tiniest, most fragile, precious being afloat
Is hard AF

We weren’t meant to do this alone
We were not meant to be sent out to sea on a tiny little life boat with no map
Even the most loving, stable partnership can sink under the weight of operating in survival mode while finding your footing as parents

So, if you’re out there, treading water
Buried in laundry and breastmilk
Surviving on freezer pizza and three hours of sleep
Thinking mildly unkind thoughts about the person you chose to parent with
Because he can’t seem to calm the baby or remember your smoothies or grasp the depths of the earth shaking transition you’re navigating
You’re not alone
And it will get easier
One sleepy, shaky day at a time

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