Birth Matters

Even an unintentional surprise gender couldn’t stop this mom from having a radiating smile right after birth.
Their whole pregnancy they thought their baby was a different gender and were met with the sweetest surprise at birth!

Swipe if you want a placenta tour ❤️🌳

In case you were curious, last year was indeed a year of girls 🎀💝👶🏼
59% of the babies born in our practice were girls! Let’s see what 2025 brings!

So honored to be a part of Angelina’s first and second birth. Hope you all enjoy her birth story that she wrote 🥹💕

Mother’s Day week brought FOUR new babies which meant today we got to celebrate with our new mamas by doing home visits! No better way to spend Mother’s Day than with our thriving moms! Happy Mother’s Day to these rockstars and all the other beautiful mamas! We love watching you all grow into motherhood! (Last photo is an incredible reminder of how truly amazing moms’ bodies are)

Here’s to strong women. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them. May we deliver them and May we stand by them and empower them through birth!

Cheers it’s Friday! Nothing like a nice refreshing drink after a delivery.

🪷Pelvic floor Relaxation in Pregnancy🪷

We talk very little about how the ability to RELAAAAAAX the pelvic floor is important too 🤔.
Generally in life, but *particularly* in pregnancy, at the end of which you likely will have to rely on maximum pelvic floor relaxation at the moment of the baby’s birth.

So, instead of frantically trying to strengthen your PF, think about investing some time into *downtraining* your pelvic muscles too 🤓.

How?

💥 Sit comfortably and breathe. Your pelvic floor should relax and bulge downwards a little with an inbreath, in a sort of piston movement in conjunction with your diaphragm, then it comes back up to its normal position during an out breath. When you feel that, great! Now sit for a while, breathe, feel the relaxation with your inbreath, and then try to *maintain the relaxed state even when you breathe out*. Do this for a couple of minutes.

💥 Some positions can encourage your pelvic floor to lengthen and relax beautifully. A deep squat or the ‘happy baby’ yoga pose (perhaps in conjunction with the above breathing technique) are wonderful in aiding relaxation.

💥 If you find it hard to feel any sort of release in your pelvic floor (not uncommon) take the weight off your PF, to encourage some letting go (so it doesn’t feel the need to work against gravity)……leaning forward over a table or sofa or even going on all fours is an excellent position to practice PF relaxation with.

📸 credit:

“…As I fought the battle of the mind & as my body was nearly fainting of exhaustion Erik reminded me, ‘ You can do this, trust the strength of your body’s abilities.’

The most empowering & transformative experience of my life that ended in one grand moment of elation.”

-Ruby & Erik first time parents-

This is home birth