WHITE BEAR DOULA

Hey Doulas!

Here's a reminder that it's okay for you to have opinions about stuff!

I've been a doula for 25 years now, and the first of those babies has just had a baby and that makes me so happy.

https://www.biospace.com/article/researchers-answer-how-and-why-infants-die-from-sids/

Researchers Pinpoint Reason Infants Die From SIDS | BioSpace Researchers from The Children's Hospital Westmead in Sydney, Australia released a study that confirmed not only how infants die from sudden infant death syndrome, but why.

NINE babies! It's amazing they stayed in until 39 weeks!!!

Malian woman gives birth to nine babies Nonuplets are extremely rare - and doctors had thought Halima Cissé was carrying seven babies.

I hate the "teen mom" genre of reality shows because they always make the teens seem like such total dips**ts. I've had plenty of teen moms as clients who were more "together" than clients in their 30s or 40s. Yes, ideally teen pregnancy wouldn't happen, but people need to get off their judgy, stereotyping, as***le horses.

And while we're at it, in real life, teen moms are treated like s**t by hospital staff. If hospital staff could F**K OFF with the "you dumb slut, you did this to yourself" attitude, that'd be great. (At least I've never seen this behaviour from a birth center/homebirth midwife.)

GRAAAH!

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Here comes the Covid Baby Bust.
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/11/covid-19-pandemic-births-baby-bust/617149/

Moms of color say they’re terrified of dying in childbirth and no one is listening "I thought I was going to pass away, I felt like I lost the baby, now they're trying to kill me," says Karena.

A young boy has been praised online after a heartwarming photo of him helping his father give skin to skin contact to his premature twin siblings went viral. Love this! (Credit: Facebook/NINO Birth)

SPECIAL DELIVERY: As Dr. Amanda Hess was getting into her hospital gown to be induced to give birth, she heard nurses prepping a woman who needed to give birth right away because her baby was in distress. But the woman's OBGYN was not at the hospital yet, so Dr. Hess (an OBGYN herself) put on another gown to cover her backside, threw on boots over her flip-flops and delivered the baby -- then her own: http://www.fox13news.com/health/271188356-story