Birth by Kate

08/09/2022

Did your provider allow delayed cord clamping ? Did you know the benefits of delaying? In some emergency cases this cannot happen and that’s okay 💗

Delay cord clamping👇🏻👇🏻

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ Committee on Obstetric Practice makes the following recommendations regarding the timing of umbilical cord clamping after birth:

• In term infants, delayed umbilical cord clamping increases hemoglobin levels at birth and improves iron stores in the first several months of life, which may have a favorable effect on developmental outcomes.

• Delayed umbilical cord clamping is associated with significant neonatal benefits in preterm infants, including improved transitional circulation, better establishment of red blood cell volume, decreased need for blood transfusion, and lower incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis and intraventricular hemorrhage.

• Given the benefits to most newborns and concordant with other professional organizations, the American College of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists now recommends a delay in umbilical cord clamping in vigorous term and preterm infants for at least 30–60 seconds after birth.

• Delayed umbilical cord clamping does not increase the risk of postpartum hemorrhage.

09/27/2021

A story of labor, love + birth ❤️

09/21/2021

Labor at home. Where you feel safe, private and unobserved. ✨

Help your fellow moms-to-be out.. how long did you spend at home ? Did you experience lots of pre labor?
When did you know it was time to go to the hospital ?

09/18/2021

I adore these photos, I always try to grab a photos in a mirror if the family has one! It’s so sweet to see 😍

The fourth trimester is the sweetest 🥰

09/16/2021

The moment you meet your baby - pure magic, pure bliss and peace 😍❤️🥺

08/16/2021

To my daughter,
Never forget that we love you.
Life is filled with hard times and good times. Learn from everything you can.
Be the woman I know you can be.
-unknown
•
•
Be on the watch for our Labor Day sale! 💓

08/12/2021

Birth is worth working hard for.
Give it your all.
Be all in.
Look yourself in the mirror and say, “Yes I can and I will.”
Then, give into the wildness of it.

07/25/2021

🌟How important is Golden Hour ? 🌟

The first few minutes after birth are a magical time for bonding with baby.

After nine months of waiting, a new mother gets her first chance to hold her baby in her arms, counting tiny fingers and toes, and gazing into the eyes of her newborn.

Research has shown that what happens during the first 60 minutes of a baby’s life can maximize the bonding between mother and child. That uninterrupted contact between mother and baby during the “golden hour” is critical to the child’s growth and development.

Even in cases where medical emergencies may change a family’s birth plan, it is possible to take advantage of bonding time in the first few minutes. If a baby needs medical attention or extra stimulation to start breathing, the child can be moved from the exam table to the mother’s chest as soon as the baby is stabilized.

Women who have a planned or unplanned cesarean section may need to wait a few moments to be able to hold the baby. In most cases, after a quick assessment, nurses can move the baby to the mother’s chest. The baby can stay at her mother’s side until she is settled into the recovery room and ready to nurse.

During labor and the minutes and hours afterward, the mother’s body experiences several amazing changes. Giving birth generates changes in a woman’s brain chemistry that increases desire to nurture.

Skin-to-skin contact and the baby’s suckling at the breast release hormones. This helps the mother connect to her child and causes the uterus to contract and stop bleeding. Research has shown that nursing within the first hour of life improves infant survival rates. Mothers who do this are also more likely to breastfeed longer.

Most hospitals and birthing centers encourage breastfeeding for the benefits to both mom and baby. Babies who breastfeed have lower rates of ear infections, asthma, diabetes, childhood leukemia and SIDS. Mothers who nurse their babies have lower rates of breast cancer and ovarian cancer.

Every mother and baby should have a chance to experience their🌟 “golden hour.”🌟

07/17/2021

It brings you to the brink of your body and asks you to push it further.

It’s begs you to take your greatest fears and combine them with your greatest joys.

It’s not proper and pretty.
It’s not posed and predictable.

It’s the perfect introduction.

Through fear.
Through doubt.

Not the birth of one,
but the birth of two,
One into life.
And another into motherhood.

📸:
Words :

07/03/2021

I’m gushing over this photo and these words: 😍😭 “I didn’t teach my membranes how to rupture, or my uterus how to contract, or my oxytocin how to rise...

No doctor commanded my relaxin to peak, or my cervix to dilate, or my sacral promontory to shift anterior-inferior, or my pelvis to translate laterally...

No one taught my baby how to extend her thorax when her spinal galant reflex was activated as my birth canal squeezed her right. No intellectual handed her a roadmap to guide her occiput-anterior as she crowned. She didn’t practice her cry before she breathed her first breath. She took no course on how to feed.

Yet here we are.

Our bodies did the dance.

Together.

A design so intricate
Each step a puzzle piece
The intelligence innate
not once did it cease.

Let go of the shore
Your body, it knows.
Each waves of contraction
Brings her closer to home.”

06/24/2021

So excited to be finishing up the birth video of this little love ❤️

WiFi is in and work is commencing!