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Gift Ideas for Midwives or Birth Workers
What Happens At My 16 Week Visit?
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How to Practice Ice Holds to Prep For Labor and Birth Pain
What Happens At My 20 Week Visit?
Pooping During Pregnancy: Constipation, The Runs, Hemorrhoids and Everything You Would Rather Google Instead Of Ask Your Provider
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My Obstetric Fistula (Part 2)
How Do I Make A Reproductive Life Plan?
What Can I Do For Back Pain During Pregnancy?

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🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️ This is the EASIEST trick for helping your bladder out during pregnancy or postpartum: After peeing, if you’re not sure if your bladder is empty or not because you’re feeling an urge or a tingle that some pee might still be in there…Simply stand up and sit back down. You’ll either need to pee again or ya won’t and you’ll know your bladder is emptied 🙌🏻. (Plus, this limits the sitting on the toilet forever and ever which can make pelvic organ prolapse worse sometimes.) I find this is most helpful during pregnancy (2nd/3rd trimester) AND 🌟right after birth🌟 when your bladder function is a little wonky. If this helped you, share/save this tip! Did you know about this one?? 🤔 🤔🤔🤔 Prep for pushing?! YES! It’s important to know there are a variety of pushing positions and that pushing on your back is just one of those positions. Your team should encourage you through a series of positions when you start pushing and then you can continue to pick which one is best for you based on how you feel AND how the baby is descending. Happy baby/dead bug is my FAVORITE because it opens up the posterior pelvis and it prevents the pregnant mama from pushing into her arms or elbows! ❤️ Mamas: What positions were you offered during pushing?? 🥼Midwives, comment with your fav pushing position ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 🔥 Good news? The number of midwives practicing and the number of students in training for midwifery is on the rise. 🎉 Happy Veterans Day 🇺🇸 this weekend to all veterans and their families! Veterans Day is a day where we get to honor ALL who have served for our great country. I am fiercely patriotic about this great nation and it is a privilege to live here and have the freedoms that we do. 🤦🏼‍♀️ I am continually amazed at the poor language we use in obstetrics. There is opportunity to improve everywhere. These are the words I had to work to change because I started in a high risk, high intervention hospital where residents needed training, birth plans were laughed at and everyone was a “mama.” Listen to how your providers, nurses and midwives talk and you’ll figure out how they view things very quickly. All you have to do is listen. They’ll tell you everything you need to know. What language do you remember from your pregnancy, birth or postpartum care that has stayed with you? Was it harmful or condescending or uplifting and encouraging? 🤔 #birthplan #birth #language #mama #midwifery I'm coming off a shift this weekend where every one of my postpartum rounds said this: 🤣 Truth: On my 24 hour shift this past week, I told at least 3 triages to remember to pack their heating pads and rice socks and 6 postpartum couplets to either bring the heating pad in from home (the next time the family goes home to grab stuff for mama...) or to go buy one at the walmart down the street. These are just a few tips and tricks I've learned in 10 years of practice as a midwife. ❤️ When possible, show mamas their baby on the ultrasound. Pictures help with comprehension if the family wants to see the images on the machine. Offer pictures - multiple pictures if possible. The pictures might be the only keepsakes the family has. It’s not your loss, it’s theirs. I understand some policies that limit taking pictures on a cell phone or a video, but people, a baby has died. Offer pictures. Offer a follow up ultrasound. Offer what the family needs or wants.
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