Serenity Birth Your Way

07/16/2020

In case you are interested in birthing without medical interventions, this article is a nice exploratory guide.

“Home birth is an opportunity to find ourselves. And more than this, home birth is safer than hospital birth during a pandemic”

Home birth is the opportunity to discover a relationship with the forces of nature both within and around us.

07/12/2020

“We are doing women enormous harm by taking away their bodily autonomy when their baby is breech. In theory, state and federal laws support the principle of informed consent and informed refusal, and nearly every hospital has a patient’s bill of rights that ensures consent before medical procedures. Yet we throw these legal and ethical rights away when a baby turns bottom-first.

We can do better. We owe it to the women we care for. Women should not be forced to leave the hospital in order to exercise their right to informed consent. Every woman with a breech baby deserves access to skilled providers in her own community who can support her, whether she chooses a planned cesarean section or a vaginal breech birth”

Research on outcomes of out-of-hospital breech birth is scarce. A new study in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth evaluates the outcomes of singleton term breech and cephalic births in a home or birth center setting. In this blog post, the authors discuss the study, the background to their involvement, an...

06/25/2020

It brings me such a great pleasure to prepare food for new birthing families!
In traditional Chinese medicine there is a prominent concept of treatment and prevention of disease that is called “ nurturing the mother to strengthen the child “ this principal can be applied to the internal organs that have a mother-child relationship based on the theory of 5 elements and their interrelation and can also be applied to the postpartum period. Birthing bodies require a time to replenish, rebuild and balance themselves through rest and appropriate nourishment. If the Qi can be directed to the organs and areas of the body that need to heal, this may assist with the harmonisation and rebalancing of the body nurturing the birthing person and in turn nurturing the baby. This week I made food inspired by the first 40 days book : Papaya, dates and Almond Fish Soup that is excellent for milk production. Vegetable stew with millet and quinoa that is warming and nourishing; then we have sausage, water chestnuts stew with couscous and rice congee that harmonizes digestion and supplements blood and Qi . And of course, some nice lactation balls, placenta medicine and a lovely chrysanthemum- lavender healing bath to pamper this mama even more 🥰🥰🥰🥰

03/17/2020

Dear CDC: Doulas are Essential Personnel, protect their hospital access!. 2323 signatures are still needed!

03/16/2020

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03/05/2020

Mardigras baby 💜