Seacoast Birth Network

09/05/2026

09/01/2026

“You have my whole heart. I grew a new one just for you 🧡”

from the talented Taynee ❤️❤️❤️

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08/31/2026

"Did you know that human babies are the most vulnerable, contact dependent, slowest developing social mammal on the planet?

Compared to other mammals, the human brain is tiny at birth; a mere 25% of its ultimate adult size.

Animals born into hostile environments tend to have larger infant brains to help them survive. Zebras, for example, need to be able to run with the herd just hours after birth – their relatively mature brains help them run and respond when a lion appears.

But, mother nature always has a survival strategy. So, what is the survival strategy for human babies? Easy. Mum and Dad. Without their parents, they couldn’t survive and so much of their behaviour is designed to keep us close most, if not all the time.

So, we need to give babies enormous amounts of love, touch and attention to allow them to thrive, not just survive, both day and night. And we should feel good about it - it’s what we’re instinctively driven to do. Despite what our society may say it’s biologically impossible to spoil a baby with love.

The first 3 years of life represent the most rapid period of brain development in our children’s lifetime. In the first 1000 days of life, a staggering 1M neural connections are made each second. These connections determine what kind of brain your baby grows. A brain that is balanced, stable, and resilient to stress. Or a brain that is unbalanced, over reactive and struggles to cope with stress.

While genetics provides a blueprint for brain development, it’s a child’s environment and their experiences that carry out the construction, forming the essential wiring of the brain. Repeated use of particular pathways strengthens individual connections.
Neural connections in the brain are vital in developing emotional regulation abilities. This is why it’s critical that we provide our children with experiences that contribute to healthy brain development.

So hug your baby, pick them up, hold them, nurture them, be with them.”

words Raised Good 💛

artwork: Taynee 💜

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08/30/2026

08/30/2026

We live in a time of enormous emphasis on being informed about birth.

What if there is an ingredient in every birth plan that we rarely acknowledge?

**Luck. Grace. Chance. Mystery.**

Whatever word feels right to you.

We live in a time of enormous emphasis on being informed about birth.

⭐Choose your care provider carefully.
⭐Know your rights.
⭐Understand interventions.
⭐Take the classes.
⭐Make the birth plan.
⭐Learn how to advocate.

And YES.

Those things matter.

Good preparation, support and information can absolutely influence the course of a birth.

But they cannot give us complete control over it.

There are always variables we cannot know in advance.

⭐How labour unfolds.
⭐How our body and baby respond.
⭐Who happens to be there that day.
⭐The decisions made in particular moments.
⭐The unexpected twists nobody saw coming.

Sometimes things line up beautifully.

Sometimes they don't.

And if we imply that following the right steps creates the right outcome, what does that say to the person who followed those steps and still had a very different birth?

That she didn't prepare enough?

Advocate enough?

Trust enough?

Perhaps birth preparation needs to make room for something our modern minds don't particularly like:

**The unknown.**

Birth has always been a threshold. An initiation. A crossing into territory that cannot be completely mapped beforehand.

Perhaps we've lost something when we try to turn that initiation into a formula.

Prepare.
Learn.
Choose wisely.
Gather good people around you.

But leave some room for what you cannot control.

Call it luck.

Call it grace.

Call it mystery.

**But leave a little room for it.**

08/30/2026

Stay educated!

Screening for large-for-gestational-age neonates at term: evidence of a labeling effect and increased intervention without neonatal benefit https://ow.ly/3Yhi50ZFs3o

08/29/2026

A C-section birth is major abdominal surgery, and recovery takes time 💙

Your job is to heal. Let us help with the rest.

Our team of compassionate doulas can help with newborn care and all the little things that can make your healing and postpartum recovery a little easier.

08/24/2026

Resources for pregnancy, birth and postpartum, including chiropractors, massage and physical therapists, lactation and infant feeding.