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I can’t describe the joy it brings me to see babes smiling, bellies folding over their diapers, loved, and celebrated. T...
07/11/2026

I can’t describe the joy it brings me to see babes smiling, bellies folding over their diapers, loved, and celebrated. Thank you KO for inviting me in once again to witness your family in bloom❤️

While I love the shift into hotter summer weather, my pregnant clients are often less enchanted. Here are a couple thing...
07/03/2026

While I love the shift into hotter summer weather, my pregnant clients are often less enchanted. Here are a couple things I recommend to get through this heat. With energy costs increasing, use fans indoors to decrease how cool you perceive a room to be, setting ceiling fans to counter clockwise. This will allow you to increase the setting on the thermostat while feeling cooler.

Keep herbal teas, such as those containing chamomile, lemon balm, mint, lavender, milky oats, red raspberry leaf, nettle, and alfalfa, prebrewed in the fridge. This helps those of use who get bored of water fast, despite the very real need to increase hydration.

Make a concentrate of matcha in the fridge to make cold lattes in the morning if in need of an energy boost and coffee is grossing you out in first trimester. Contrary to popular belief, small to moderate caffeine consumption in pregnancy does not increase miscarriage risk.

And along the lines of beverages, I'm a big proponent of drinking one 16oz electrolyte bev daily in pregnancy, where Liquid IV and LMNT packets are my favorite. This helps support an adequate blood volume and replace salts lost in sweating.

If your legs and ankles are swelling in this heat, the yoga position "feet up the wall" is very doable in pregnancy with a towel tucked under one hip to tilt your belly slightly to the side. Done 1-2 times daily for 10 minutes can help drive fluids from your legs back into your central circulation. Rotate your ankles and pump your feet. Get up slowly as it makes some feel dizzy.

Lastly, get your gorgeous pregnant bods out into a body of water. A pool, lake, or ag trough-now-cold-plunge-pool in the back yard. Submerge yourself up to your chest for at least 20 minutes, preferably while swimming or walking around in the water. This also helps resolve swelling in the legs/feet and gives those at the end of pregnancy a much needed break from their heavy bellies.

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04/17/2026

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Ooooooh is this interesting! New article in the journal Birth (link below) entitled "Personal Birth Experiences and Clin...
03/19/2026

Ooooooh is this interesting! New article in the journal Birth (link below) entitled "Personal Birth Experiences and Clinician Attitudes About Cesarean Birth: A Cross-Sectional Study With Female Labor and Delivery Unit Staff" highlights a factor that can have a very real influence on people needing or choosing hospital care for their birth. The personal birth experiences of those on your birth team (nurse, physician, and/or midwife) "are associated with their attitudes about clinical practice." If they themselves have only had a cesarean in the past, their support for best practices to reduce cesarean birth is lower, they are more likely to overestimate cesarean safety, and have greater fears around vaginal birth.

This finding circles back to my prior posts about the important role that hospital culture plays in the degree to which your care team may practice in an evidence based manner. Bias TOWARDS cesarean section can change the team's "tolerance" for a slow labor or a baby who is "misbehaving" according to the fetal monitor. It will likely change the language they use when discussing a potential surgical birth. While cesareans are very necessary in some instances, being that around 33% of all births in our nation are now surgical, what do you think the likelihood is that someone on your hospital birth team carries bias that can have a direct impact on your birth journey?

This is one of the many reasons I shifted into home birth. Not because I wanted to make my clients' stories read like mine (ending in a vaginal birth). But rather that I am familiar with the complex layers of hospital power structures and cultures, and the degree to which they can have a detrimental impact on practice...no matter what a birth family wants or prefers.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/birt.70062?campaign=wolearlyview

In like a lamb and out like a lion?! Just a heads up to pregnant folks and parents of babes
03/17/2026

In like a lamb and out like a lion?! Just a heads up to pregnant folks and parents of babes

If you don't know by now, many of my posts arise out of irritation with conventional health care. Today is no exception....
03/15/2026

If you don't know by now, many of my posts arise out of irritation with conventional health care. Today is no exception. Over the last year I've seen a resurgence of unnecessary testing, maternal-fetal medicine consultations, and imaging being recommended in pregnancy that drive up costs—especially for patients with high-deductible plans. Here’s a tidbit worth knowing.

It is not evidence-based to offer both an NT (nuchal translucency ultrasound) and an NIPT (non-invasive prenatal screening blood test).

NIPT is ~99% sensitive for screening Trisomy 21/Down syndrome, does not require a visit to maternal-fetal medicine or genetic counseling, is covered by most major insurers, and can be drawn with your initial prenatal labs. If someone has to self-pay, it’s $199 with my lab.

An NT is 60–80% sensitive with a 5% false-positive rate. In other words, it doesn’t come close to the accuracy of NIPT. Once NIPT became widely available, routine NT screening largely fell out of favor more than a decade ago.

Yet I’m seeing a resurgence of the NT + NIPT combo in large health systems. Why? My suspicion: it generates revenue for MFM departments.

What gets billed?
• hospital facility fee
• dating ultrasound
• genetic counseling visit
• perinatologist interpretation
• the blood test

Total charges to insurance often land between $1,300–$2,300.

While I try not to stoke skepticism toward conventional medicine, patients deserve to know when recommendations are evidence-based—and when they may simply pad a system’s bottom line.

Take-home: work with a provider who understands the realities of corporate healthcare, practices evidence-based medicine, and doesn’t profit from the tests they recommend. Ya welcome!

Well said. And accurate.
03/13/2026

Well said. And accurate.

I laud this physician for the weekly work. She does on social media, trying to set the record straight around what is ha...
03/12/2026

I laud this physician for the weekly work. She does on social media, trying to set the record straight around what is happening with our federal government and public policy. Follow her.

Hear it: exercise, fiber intake, decrease intake of processed foods and sugar, move ya body. Over and over. It’s that im...
03/11/2026

Hear it: exercise, fiber intake, decrease intake of processed foods and sugar, move ya body. Over and over. It’s that impactful…and Americans in general are falling short. So many of my clients are eyeballs deep into supplements, the newest wellness product, conspiracy theories around health and science, vaccine hesitant. It’s not that deep. Keep health simple and evidence based. No quick fixes or weekly Chiro adjustments needed. No need to spend $$$ to be healthy. The basics are in reach.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVrU_uBEVWS/?igsh=MWZhazNwemtodW9neQ==

03/10/2026

Well said. I support this vaccine though don’t carry it for newborns simply because the majority of my families would prefer to start this at one month of age.

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