SWELL Birth

03/01/2020

Adorable little Leap babies born at the St. Cloud Hospital!

02/28/2020

Birth Boot Camp online classes just got more accessible!!

Exciting news.... Our online childbirth classes now have CLOSED CAPTIONING!!! We hope that this will make our classes more accessible to everyone.

02/22/2020

Women are strong. We just give them the tools to prepare for an amazing birth.

02/08/2020

Beautiful moment caught by . Build your best birth team ❤️ grab the people who help you to be informed and that make you feel safe and loved

12/02/2019

Today is your last chance to sign up for this awesome deal! All of Birth Boot Camp's online classes are 10% off through today! Take an additional $25 off with the coupon code BBCI25! Just follow the link. 👉https://birthbootcamp.com/online-childbirth-education-classes/?ref=100

It's Cyber Monday! To celebrate we are offering 10% OFF any of our online classes. You can also SAVE AN ADDITIONAL $25 if you use the coupon code BBCI25! We have a variety of online classes so we're sure you'll find something perfect you. Learn more and sign-up at www.BirthBootCamp.com

11/21/2019

, you have the RIGHT to !? Minnesota state law says so.

10/31/2019

Happy Halloween! 😄

More Halloween fun! Dilation chart - pumpkin style!

10/30/2019

I've been a doula since 2014 and certified with Birth Boot Camp DOULAS since 2016. This summer, I was able to "reboot" and take the training again. This post was written by another local doula who attended the training alongside me.

I can't tell you how much I love BBC, the trainings, the community. I learn something new each time I connect with one of these wonderful people. So glad to have these women in my doula network!

FacebookTwitterGoogle+Pinterest0 “Birth Boot Camp enriched me as a doula in so many ways. I loved the reading and modules we did before class. My favorite part of the online modules was watching the same online childbirth classes that we would be telling our clients about. It is easy to recommend ...

10/28/2019

What more reason do you need?

My husband drew to my attention that Dads I am talking to about carriers probably get enough of Mums telling them what to do at home, so if I wanted to encourage them to use them, maybe I needed to use Dad words....

So here are his words and photo along with other awesome words and photos of Dads using slings, wraps and carriers with their kids. This started small, rapidly grew into a Facebook album of 100 reasons, then an group where you can keep up to date with project developments and share the love of Dads Babywearing (https://www.facebook.com/groups/whydadsbabywear/) and a real life physical book!

The printed book is a celebration of fatherhood, of Dads being my hands on and involved with their children's lives and involving them in theirs. It's made up of some of your favourites here and others unseen online, you can find it here - http://www.babywearingwithjess.com/product/why-dads-babywear/

If you have a babywearing Dad in your house who would be keen to share any other "Dad words" and/or photos of why they wear your kids, email them to us at [email protected] (including Dad's name, child/children's names and approx age in the picture) so we can make you into a poster to share the message with other Dads and others over on our Instagram account www.instagram.com/whydadsbabywear ...

Please see safety guidelines for child carrying here - https://babywearingwithjess.wordpress.com/2016/09/19/anso-child-carrying-safety-guidelines/

09/06/2019

Whoa! There actually *IS* some science behind this phenomenon!

Hold your babies, people!! Preferably up, as far as the child is concerned... and much to the dismay of tired parents around the world who are exasperated at an infant’s insistence at holding them standing.

A study by Esposito et al. (2013), published in the Journal of Current Biology, demonstrated for the first time that the calming response to parents holding them is a coordinated set of central, motor, and cardiac regulations and is a conserved component of parent-infant interactions in mammals.

Using electrocardiograms (ECG) to monitor twelve healthy human infants’ heartbeats, along with their behaviour and vocalisations, they recorded mother-infant pairs during behavioural tasks that consisted of the child lying in a crib, being held by the mother who was sitting on a chair ( ), or being held by the mother who was walking continuously ( ).

The researchers found a sustained elevation of heart interbeat intervals due to carrying in awake infants could not be explained by any known cardiac vagal reflex, including the orienting reflex (brief period of heart rate deceleration by mild sensory stimulus), suggesting that carrying evokes a sustained heart rate reduction in concert with the rapid behavioural changes in human infants via a novel mechanism.

The researchers furthermore found that in mouse pups, carrying induced calming responses similar to those in human infants, even though maternal carrying methods differed. This draws parallels between the carrying-induced state evoked in human babies and other mammalian young such as cats or squirrels who adopt a still, compact posture with their hind legs drawn up when maternally carried. The reduced mobility, reduced distress vocalisations, and reduced heart rate appears to be adaptive.

The calming responses evoked by carrying are thought to be an evolutionary measure to increase the survival probability of the infant in cases of emergency escape by the mother and child, and so ultimately works to strengthen the mother-infant relationship. There is adaptive value in this behaviour in carer-infant relationships and, as a consequence, infant survival.

The study found that the effects of carrying on the infant’s parasympathetic nervous system were significant, and it provides a scientific understanding of this physiological infant response that could be beneficial for parents and early childhood educators to understand.

Considering the physiological response of the infant when being carried may lead to greater parent and carer patience, reduced frustration and an increased appreciation of age-old parenting techniques such as and parenting.

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(13)00343-6

09/03/2019

Neat visual of different twin variations! Do you have twins in your family?

We love and all of her {fun} education!! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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T W I N S 👶 👶⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Did you know there are many different variations of twins? Not just “fraternal” and “identical” 💕⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
In fact, we just classify that DIZYGOTIC twins are “fraternal” because they came from TWO eggs (Di = two)⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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And MONOZYGOTIC twins are identical because they came from ONE egg (Mono = one) ⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
tips_from_nurse_tori_ also did an awesome all-inclusive post about ALL the different types, so go check her post out!⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Here are some of the common kinds:⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
✅ Diamniotic Dichorionic “Di Di” (2 amniotic sacs & 2 placentas), can be fused OR separate, as depicted above! These types of twins can be identical or fraternal!⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
✅ Diamniotic Monochorionic (2 amniotic sacs & 1 placenta) These types of twins can only be identical!⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
✅ Monoamniotic Monochorionic (1 amniotic sac, 1 placenta) These types of twins can also only be identical, and this is the most rare type!⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Where are my multiple mamas at? 👶👶👶👶⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Do you know what type of twins you have? 💕⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⁣⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀