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Pooping During Pregnancy: Constipation, The Runs, Hemorrhoids and Everything You Would Rather Google Instead Of Ask Your Provider
A Home Birth: My Fourth Birth Story
What Happens At My First Pregnancy Visit?
The Cost of Being a Midwife

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🥰 There is so much that you cannot learn while you are in midwifery training. I put every lesson that I have learned since graduation (TEN years ago and 1,000 births later!!) into this guide for students. Whether you are trying to figure out if midwifery is the career for you 🤔🤔🤔…or you are starting your first semester next year 🎉🎉🎉 or you are just saving up because you know that midwife is your calling 💰💸💵….or, you are about to graduate and you have no idea what to do between graduation and your first job or how to survive the first year or two as a new midwife 😬😳😟… this guide was made for YOU to guide you through each step in your journey to midwifery and to make you as successful as possible at each stage. I put all of my harder lessons and wisdom into one place so that you can get all of the gain. The tried and true lessons and recommendations that are in the guide are the same ones that I give to the students that I precept on the front lines. Make an investment and your success today and get your 🤗 hands on this guide ASAP in the shop: amidwifenation.com/shop. Prices go up after the new year. One purchase gets you lifetime access to every single update (since the guy lunch it’s been updated about four times already!!). It really is the gift that keeps on giving 🎁. *If you are a student and I can ever be a “phone a friend” for advice, wisdom, or questions, please DM me any time. It is my honor and pleasure to help you anyway that I can; let’s make more midwives. 🥰🌟 Unique is just the tip of the iceberg. Midwives are experts in the breadth of normal from well woman care to preconception to pregnancy to birth to postpartum to breastfeeding. We’re equally lifeguards, cheerleaders, teachers and chaplains. Across all cultures, midwifery care is based on the same values: pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding are normal events of a woman’s life. Very few vocations see the depth and breadth of emotion that midwives do. It’s the best vocation in the world. 🙌🏻 🎄My wishlist for women, midwifery and the system is almost always the same. But I’ll keep beating this drum until Jesus takes me home. What’s your wish for better care? Eating in labor? Sweatpants? Hospital birth in the shower? 12 weeks off work after birth - or longer?? 🤔 Not sure where to start? Follow @amidwifenation for better pregnancy and postpartum care 🙌🏻😘 There are so many things to share about how to make your postpartum period successful. But getting a daily shower, good nutrition and rest are my top three for new moms. This is how I’ve showered for years with babies - and some of those showers were cut short because babes needed comforting or nursing. But I always felt better afterwards - what tip do you have to a postpartum mama for how to get that self care done with a new baby? 🌟🤔 Tell me what you did below!! 🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️ 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
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