Nourished & Nurtured Lactation & Birth

Nourished & Nurtured Lactation & Birth Empowering mamas with evidence-based, faith-rooted birth and postpartum care 🌿

01/26/2023

Happy Birthday Frankie Jean!

Last year I had the honor of photographing ’s home birth!! I can’t help but cry every time I see this! Her strength is incredible to witness.

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✨First Time Mom ‘Pure Magic’ Home Birth✨

“Hi! I just wanted to let you know how much your app impacted my birthing experience. The calming effect of the birth affirmations was so powerful, I felt SO safe and in control. The encouragement it gave me pushed me through so many of my contractions. I am so grateful to have come across your page, so a HUGE thank you!

I had my daughter on January 24th at 5:08am. She’s my first. It was a planned home birth with attending midwives and a doula. I don’t have a partner so my mom was right by my side the whole time. The labour was a total of 12 hours and was pure magic. I was prepared for it to be hard, painful, not doable. But it was filled with strong controlled breaths, motivation from my support people, peace, and surrender to my body and God. I caught her in the birth pool!

A non medicated home birth is possible for a first time mom! If you have the right support system in place it’s 100% possible to have a home birth!”
So grateful to Alexis for sharing this amazing birth video and her very powerful words ❤️🙏🏻

If you’d like to learn more about how we can help you have a more relaxed, confident and faith-filled birth experience, the links for our app and course are in our bio 🥰

⚡️THE FETAL EJECTION REFLEX ⚡️After about an hour of established labor after the midwife broke her water, this mama went...
01/26/2023

⚡️THE FETAL EJECTION REFLEX ⚡️

After about an hour of established labor after the midwife broke her water, this mama went from 7.5 cm to her baby being born in the span of 15 minutes!!!!!

This was due to the Fetal Ejection Reflex kicking in which allowed her baby to be born after just a few involuntary “pushes” from mama. Her body did the work for her - no active pushing needed!

Her labor progressed so quickly that her midwife was on a bathroom break and guess who got to jump in and catch the baby 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️

⚡️What is the fetal ejection reflex?

The FER, also known as the Ferguson reflex, is a completely normal labor variation that is more commonly seen in birth environments where the mother feels relaxed and safe OR when the mother feels threatened in the final stages of labor!!

The reflex gets triggered by high levels of stress hormones during the transition phase of labor when the cervix is fully dilated and the baby is making its way into and through the birth canal.

This results in a few very powerful contractions (“involuntary pushes”) which birth the baby quickly, without any active pushing from the mother.

“In the wild, mother and young have a better chance of survival if the mother can regulate labor so that the young are born in safe, quiet surroundings.”
–Niles Newton

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