Join me at this @Tugginc screening of The Milky Way!

Join me at this @Tugginc screening of The Milky Way!

Get involved!

I spent much of my early 20's involved in grassroots activism. Community involvement will always have a part of my heart and now in South Carolina the SCMA is trying to close our birth centers and ultimately stop our midwives from practicing. Join this group and get involved in the fight from family birth choice.
Our Birth. Our Choice.

Woman Sings While In Labor

This is just lovely. Great technique for relaxation during labor.

Should you say yes to Vitamin K?

Evidence based birth published a great article last month. It changes the game a bit when it comes to the vitamin K shot.

http://evidencebasedbirth.com/evidence-for-the-vitamin-k-shot-in-newborns/

10 Things to Remember!

What is a Doula?

World Doula week is coming to a close so I thought I would post this great article about doulas.
What is a Doula?

Myths about Water Birth

Today NPR ran a ridiculous article about how water birth is not proven to be safe.

NPR article

They don't seem to like evidence based medicine nor stats. They chose to ignore that a woman birthing in water at home or in a hospital setting: 

• will immediately bonding with her newborn
• will delay cord cutting
• will breastfeed within and hour after birth ensuring a longer duration of breastfeeding
• will not have had pain medication
• will have a positive birth experience therefore less likely to experience PPD

The Upstate is fortunate to have 3 birthing centers with tubs for mothers to labor and deliver in. We are also blessed with the GHS midwives who have pushed for tubs in hospital and women are birthing babies in them everyday. 

Water birth ultimately allows a woman space to birth her baby. She creates a circle around her, not the machines, not the OB. All eyes are on mama as she labors and strongly births her baby. This hands off approach is foreign to surgeons, I mean obstetricians. Birth is a woman's choice. She should choose her birth team, if her family is present, and how she births.