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03/02/2025

I am honored to have been interviewed by the for this important series about the impact closing labor and delivery units at hospitals will have across the state on maternal health outcomes. As a midwife I know how important access to care is, how we need rural hospital access to keep homebirth safe, and how midwives can make an impact on care outcomes. As a public health advocate I also know that this will lead to worsening outcomes for pregnant people in Maine. It’s time to incorporate midwives into a larger role in our state. We need fair compensation so we can care for more families. Midwives are more important for Mainers now more than ever.

https://themainemonitor.org/birthing-unit-closures-midwives/

01/24/2025

It seems that many health professionals involved in antenatal care have not realized that one of their roles should be to protect the emotional state of pregnant women. - Michel Odent

01/24/2025

If you are south of Portland and considering transferring to have a homebirth I am available to attend births in February, March, and April ❤️

I can care for families in Maine, NH, and Mass.

12/30/2024

Por qué nadie le dice a las embarazadas que se masturben para facilitar la labor de parto? 🌀

Que el orgasmo es un dispositivo de apertura del útero. 💦

¿Por qué nadie cuenta que el parto es sexual?

Que están implicados los mismos órganos, las mismas hormonas...

Que igual que para hacer el amor, se requiere intimidad. 😘

Que hay sudor, gemidos, jadeos, ojos en blanco, caderas en movimiento...

¿Cómo se ha vuelto el nacimiento/sexo algo tan rígido y controlado?

Llegar al orgasmo requiere poner el cerebro en reposo y bajar al cuerpo.

Dar a luz lo mismo.

El tema es que muchas mujeres viven fingiendo or****os, para encajar en el modelo patriarcal.

El tema es que no puedes fingir un parto.

La es la principal hormona responsable de las contracciones uterinas, y es muy sensible; necesita tranquilidad, luz tenue y confianza. 💦🌀

Da igual lo cerca que estes de correrte, si alguien irrumpe en la habitación sin avisar, o enciende luces fuertes o te habla de algo muy técnico; se corta...

Son todas estimulaciones del neocortex, que generan adrenalina, e inhiben el proceso.

Lo llaman fallo en el progreso del parto.

No creo que se trate de un fallo, nadie falla al dar a luz.

Es más bien siglos de represión unidas a una información deficiente basada en el miedo lo que provoca todas estas intervenciones y sufrimiento innecesario.
“En definitiva, el nacimiento es un acto sexual que se realizaría con la máxima gratificación del para las criaturas humanas, si la sexualidad de la mujer que pare no estuviese destruida.”
Wilhelm Reich
“Lo decimos en serio e invocando repetidas experiencias, y no en nombre de teorías, de filosofías, de creencias, el trabajo del puede ser una sucesión de contracciones verdaderamente adecuadas, buenas, porque son generadoras de placer.” Frédérick Leboyer
“Incluso la maldición divina ‘parirás con dolor’ trae implícito que no siempre fue así.”

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02/22/2023

“Some think that the first sound we hear is our mother’s heartbeat. Actually the first sound to vibrate through our newly developed hearing apparatus is the pulse of our mothers blood through her veins and arteries. We vibrate to that primordial rhythm even before we have ears to hear. Before we were conceived, we existed in part as an egg in our mothers o***y when she was a four month old fetus, in the womb of our grandmother. Each of us spent five months in our grandmother's womb and she in turn formed within the womb of her grandmother. We vibrate to the rhythms of our mothers blood even before she was born herself. And this pulse is the thread of blood that runs all the way back through the grandmothers to the first mother.”

Words: When the Drummers Were Women, by Layne Redmond
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08/22/2022

“They told you about the contractions but did they tell you about the expansion?
Did they tell you how your body would open to make way for the whole universe to pass through?
Did they tell you how your heart would explode with a love bigger than anything you’ve ever known as you pulled your baby to your chest

They told you about the ring of fire but did they tell you about the crown of stars?
Did they mention that there is a moment when your baby enters the world and you leave your body and touch the heavens and become the light of a million galaxies?
Did they tell you how the pain of stretching to receive your child would be more exquisite than any sensation you’ve felt?

They told you you would scream but did they tell you about how you would roar?
Did they tell you about the power that would rise up from your belly as you called your baby forth with your mighty voice?
Did they tell you how you would embody the wild woman within you and breathe fire with your song?

They told you you would bleed but did they tell you how that sacred blood wouldn’t scare you?
How you would feel grateful for that magical liquid of life as it trickled down your leg?
How you would honor its flow and how it would help you heal a lifetime of hating your body’s bleeding cycles?

They told you these stories and taught you to fear birth, to fear your power, to fear yourself.
But you’re stronger and wiser than that mama.
You know that birth is your divine dance, your soul’s song, your moment with God, and you walk fearlessly into her open arms.”

~ Catie Atkinson
https://m.facebook.com/spiritysol/
on Instagram

Art: Medha Srivastava, “Motherlove”
https://www.facebook.com/medhasrivastavaa/

NOTE: Not all pregnancies and births are the same. Some are fraught with complications and heartache. Our hearts go out to these with compassion, support, and much love.

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06/13/2022

Nope 👇

Some facts about nuchal cords:

🔆 Nuchal cords are incredibly common, occurring in an estimated 1 of 3 births.

🔆 They are very rarely dangerous.

🔆 Fetuses receive oxygen through the umbilical cord, not by breathing through the mouth or nose, so a cord around the neck is not cutting off their air like it would for you or me. If the cord is left in tact, the baby can still be receiving oxygen from the placenta for several minutes after birth.

🔆 Most babies with a nuchal cord have one that is very loose and it can be simply slipped over the head after birth. There is usually no indication of the nuchal cord at all.

🔆 The main way for a nuchal cord to be harmful (if the cord is healthy) is if it is wrapped multiple times and is so tight that it compresses itself, thereby decreasing blood flow inside, or if there is a true knot so tight that it does the same (rare). The cord would have to be extremely tight to cut off blood flow between the body and brain.

🔆 Nuchal cord is very difficult to identify before birth, even with ultrasound.

🔆 You do not need to have a c-section solely due to a suspected nuchal cord.

🔆 Medications given during a birth induction/augmentation can cause erratic & extra strong contractions, causing heart decelerations in the fetus. If a c-section is performed and a nuchal cord is discovered, it is frequently blamed (though the cause was more likely the induction meds). This can lead the mother to feel her baby was "saved" by the hospital staff, when they may have actually been the ones to CAUSE the issues the baby was "saved" from.

🔆 A healthy umbilical cord is filled with a gelatinous substance called Wharton's Jelly that protects the cord vessels as a fetus twists and turns its way inside the uterus.

If you want to read up on the evidence on nuchal cord, visit my Instagram account () and scroll back to my post of that name.

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